I think it's great we are being allowed to roll sleeves again, but we need to do it the way we did BDUs. What do you think?

Is the 10 day trial at Hood over? Did Big Army give an Army wide blessing?

Sp4 Byron Skinner…This is total nonsense. A soldiers wants to roll up their sleeve to be comfortable they let them. Fifty years ago this kind of bull sh** would get an nco/officer fragged.

Do it the BDU way. ..no brainier!

During the time that I was in the Army we had two sets of BDU's. One set was for winter, usually from October until the beginning of April, the other was a lightweight set that was used from April until the end of September. Most of the time the S1 office decided when
to Roll sleeves and on really hot days above 100 would also allow for pant legs to be unbloused. We also wore the cuffs to the outside for easy access if we had to use our MOP Gear. For the guys that had arms like a NFL lineman they usually had to get their tops either altered or they had to have them special ordered just for them. We had one guy that had arms so big we had to actually cut his sleeves completely off, he played for the Arkansas Razorbacks. He was massive. Made Brock Leaner look small.

When did they stop rolling the sleeves anyway? I was in from '83 - 92 so it must have happened after that.

I think if all of the services are rolling their sleeves the Army should be allowed to also. I also think that it's a good idea for the Army to do the "Hudachek" roll. It makes it easier to tell a soldier from a Marine or a sailor. The roll was named after Gen Hudachek who was the 4th ID Commander during the time BDUs first came out in the 80's.

No, Army! Don't go down the road the Marines did! Our way of rolling sleeves looks really sharp, but it's really uncomfortable, and actually makes it hotter by restricting airflow and exposing more skin to the sun.

before BDUs it was the 3rd Bde Roll, as in 3rd Bde 82d Abn, and that was with jungle cammies, or jungle fatigues, with those it works because the sleeve design which flares out to the cuff, the BDUs taper in to the cuff, so the rolled sleeve wants to cut your arm off. For those of us not in the 3rd Bde, we could choose either way, often you'ld see mix of sleeve rolls in a formation

I recall when my wife and I got to our original duty station in 1983. I had USMC neighbors and my wife's comments made me chuckle. "Wow, they have the same uniforms as you guys, except they don't know how to roll up their sleeves." That said it all for me.

I personally think the rolling of sleeves look terrible. The Army should go back to it's uniform history and stop rolling them. It maybe a little uncomfortable when it's hot. When I join the Army in 1961, nobody complained and still survive.