Personally, I do not like the way the ACUs are made, the velcro doesn't last long and I know it says they have a wear life of 6 months, but I'm lucky if they look good for two. Also, it says they are "wrinkle free", I beg to differ. Basically I think they look atrocious and a waste of money. I know we can come up with a better uniform than this.
What's your opinion and what would you change?
Uniforms
There might be a change after all, maybe they will get it right this time.
There are a lot of things wrong with the ACUs, but now that we can wear the PC and not the wool cover of heat cats we need to focus on other issues.
The pattern doesn't work, and needs to be replaced by one that does. The Army needs a pattern that works not one that looks good on a poster.
I think we should be able to roll up our sleeves, it would really help on those 80-100+ degree days.
Like the beret, and countless other changes that have been implemented over the past 13 years of my service, the ACU's are a disaster
among disasters. What really gets me is that the men and women who are in
charge of these decisions DO NOT take any input from the ground level, instead
attempting to "improve" the disaster, trying to justify the mistake,
and really just delaying the inevitable.
For years Soldiers voiced their hate
for the beret, and it took over a decade for that mistake to be undone. Now, for
nearly a decade, Soldiers have complained about the ridiculousness of the ACUs
and still we wear them.
It's really all about power and money. Contractors have
all the power (i.e. those making our uniforms control what we get through contracts), and we (the American taxpayers
and Soldiers who buy the uniforms) give them all the money. Therefore, we will
keep right on wearing the ACUs, no matter of their lack of utility, non-ruggedness,
dilapidated appearance, or the lack pride we have in them.
Not sure why that formatting looks that way... sorry about the rough appearance!
SFC Mace, take that same survey again and I bet the results would be different. Soldiers need things to feel pride in... having a uniform that looks great on Monday morning gave everyone something to work for. I don't care how many people say that they think that shining boots or pressing a uniform is a pain, they still will do it because it looks good!! They want to stand out... have personal pride in something... there is far too little of that in today's Army. If it was authorized to starch this current uniform I would certainly not hesitate to do so... and neither would many of the other Soldiers I know. A Soldier that takes pride in his uniform is one who takes pride in what he or she does.
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