If you had a choice, which uniform pattern/style would you want to wear?

As a civilian, I can say congress does not understand the military and because of that, they make boneheaded decisions that impact morale, tradition, and order in the military they constantly want to under fund.  It is interesting they are trying to save money on uniforms that they don't buy.  That is how ignorant they are, having never served.

There was never any call to give up the old patterns or uniform cut & material but alas, no point in beating that horse some more. I say either everyone goes to multicam or marpat. Stop wasting tax payer dollars teetering the same stuff that's been tested and proven a dozen times over. One thing for sure though, get rid of the damn velcro and zippers and return to button closures for everything and sewn on patches. I'd you're actually SOF you have a demonstrated need for the velcro. Otherwise, it's pointless and a waste of money. Next, Dutch the whole cut and material I'd the Army uniforms. Either go back to the BDU/DCU design or use the Marine design. The Army killed any durability when it tried to make people more comfortable and now our uniforms rip and fall apart five feet off of the road. As one other NCO said, just use an earth tone brown (coyote, dark earth, whatever you want to call it) for all of our OCIE. Brown is a universal color worldwide and so the best base color. Paint over it and our weapons to better match locale. Problem solved, money saved.

I'm an old timer.  Went in with the permanent press fatigues & got out during the start of the ACU's.  The BDU's were supposed to be the all service uniform.  Right off the bat, the SMA back then didn't want slanted pockets even though they were quite practical so that was scrubbed.  Several changes had to made over the years to the BDU's.  I still have a set of the old Elvis collar ones.  Then in 1983 they were looking at going to a brown suede boot.  When I went to PLDC in Germany, the SF guys were wearing them & they liked them.  Again, politics interceded & the brown boot was scrubbed because they didn't look pretty.  So it seems we have come full circle over the past 30 years.  I agree, the Multicam seems like the right choice.  It should be solely designed by the requirements of field soldiers not some POG's behind a desk someplace & certainly not by Congress or DoD HQ.  It is much more cost effective to design things properly & practically.  Whenever politics gets involved, it tends to drive up costs & doesn't satisfy the needs of the troops.

We (Armed Services) need to go back to the one or two camo format that worked. One uniform for wooded, forest, vegitation, etc. and one for desert environments. The same camo needs to be assigned to ALL services. The camo explosion that has seen every service with their own camo patterns is stupid and a HUGE waste a money. Heck the Multicam pattern is better at everything than the ACU, go to that for everyone. This would lower spending, and improve logistics.

Lets go one step further and stop with this ridiculous camouflage uniform program. The old O.D. uniforms where more than adequate for over 40 years. Some military tech nerd and his associated congressman sent us down this road back in the 80s. There is no empirical data that equates wearing a camouflage field/combat uniform reduces casualties in any way on the battle field. Maybe save a few million and get us better body armor or a primary weapon that wasn't designed in the 50s. The DOD is all about making cuts, well one duty/field/combat uniform is a great start.

I really like the multicam pattern the Army uses on deployments. 
It looks good, is functional camouflage, and provides a presentable and professional appearance. 

I know the Marine that posed for the uniform configuration in the middle.

I think Multicam provides the best camouflage over a broad array of environments.

Would like to see some true leadership from our Top Brass on this issue for a "Common Uniform" collection of patterns.  I see three main issues in making this decision, effectiveness, industrial longevity, and force cohesiveness.

To save money and be effective, multicams!  After that, woodland and desert MARPAT as long as all the gear is coyote brown to work with both woodland and desert environments.  Even better would be a single MARPAT uniform that is reversable for use in both woodland and desert.