Are you ready to say goodbye to the Green Army Service Uniform?

I'm not in the Army or an expert, but I think the green uniform looked more appropriate as a Service uniform. Blues should be a dress uniform exclusively (like with ours). Perhaps it does look more classy, but for me the green "suit" looks more relate-able for the job...

Rambo does not approve.

Being old school, the Army greens look normal to me. The Army blues remind me of the 1860s. They look good, but they clash with my mental picture.

I was roughly fitted my first set of summer [AG-344] and winter weight [AG-44] in November 1974. Since I was entering basic combat training and there was a realistic expectation that my size would change based on countless push-ups, pull-ups, sit-up, a few dying cockroaches and cut-aways [front leaning rest to parade rest over asphalt or concrete] the actual cut was made later. My first sets of greens were somewhat ill-fitted; but, since they were government issued and paid for I didn't complain.
My next sets I was required to purchase be cause I was going to be a commissioned officer. The funds were taken from our USMA cadet account [funds paid to us but sued to purchase government equipment, books, uniforms, etc,]. This set of greens was custom fit by Haas Tailors. I couldn't help but to compare the processes of 1974 to 1980 and level of care, to custom fit to the black stripe along the side of the trousers.
I had saved sets of uniforms from green fatigues, through starchable khakis, BDUs, mess and dress blues, and yes Army greens [AG-489 introduced in the 1990's]. All my uniforms were lost when we were evicted last summer - I gave them up because I did not have sufficient space to store them.
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I want to see the Ike jacket come back

I've had mixed feelings about the new ASU since it was announced. The position that it is a nod to Army tradition is a little specious. The longest lived single uniform(combined color and style) in the Army's history was the Army Green Service Uniform - 60 some odd years. Toward the end of its lifespan it got a little busy what with the proliferation of badges, tabs, ribbons and patches. And the green shirt was fugly. The clutter could have been cleaned up using some of the same measures adopted with the new ASU. And I'll bet there were one or two tan dress shirts laying around somewhere. At its inception it wasn't the most comfortable; the material was hot and heavy and a killer in warm weather. But we had khakis for summer( and TW's, the most comfortable uniform of all). Over the years new materials solved the comfort problem. And it looked great with bloused boots and berets. As for blousing the ASU; I've a picture of my great grandfather in his Civil War Cavalry uniform and even then they didn't tuck their blues in their boots.
Don't misunderstand my position; I thought the Army Dress Blue Uniform was great in its setting and keeping it would have been just fine. A simplified Service Uniform was overdue and the traditional Green Service Uniform could have been cleaned up and done very well. But combining the Service and Dress Uniforms created a mish-mash that just looks goofy.

CPT (Join to see), I think that adopting the dress blue uniform as the standard dress uniform was the latest in a series of lamentable and poor decisions that the Army has continued to make since post WWII. Nothing looks more absurd than a soldier wearing the ASUs with bloused boots, and a maroon/green/tan beret. There's so much color they look like clown suits.
I would have maintained the green uniform or even reverted back to the uniforms of WWII with updated materials.
I find it distressing that the USMC has maintained the status quo for eons, yet the Army makes wholesale changes every few years. It's like the Army has a child like identity crisis and never grows up.
Lamentable and sad.

CPT (Join to see) Already said goodbye on 1 February 2012 - LOL!

Dateline: 1 October, 2015.
Somewhere in the Pentagon, a General Officer is preparing a study for the next Army Uniform...

I didn't even know y'all were still authorized to wear your greens, I thought they were out a couple of years ago. In any case I will say from my perspective that while both uniforms look good there is something about the greens that I do think looks better.

I am grateful that I retired this past January, saying good buy to the Class A greens would have been impossible for me; to me I am Old School and the Dress Blues were only for special occasions.