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During the opening ceremonies last night of Monday Night football I noticed that when the flag was brought out there were military members holding the flag. Majority were in their dress uniforms, but the Army was in its ACUs. In my opinion it did not look good and they looked very out of place. Then I went back and looked at some older pics and saw that the Army always wears cammies vs. dress uniform.
Doesn't some commander have a decision to make on what uniform to wear? Why wear your worse uniform to something like that? I thought they were dressed for casual Friday.
What are your thoughts for something that is televised like this?
Doesn't some commander have a decision to make on what uniform to wear? Why wear your worse uniform to something like that? I thought they were dressed for casual Friday.
What are your thoughts for something that is televised like this?
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Cpl Matthew Wall - I think the cammies can differentiate those and others who may be Color Guard. I think cammies look like war and that is what people see and what we want them to see. IMHO
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Prior to the onset of our current war(s), you would have seen the Army in dress uniform, but as previously stated, it is a representation of the Army at war.
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MSG Wade Huffman
1LT(P) Michael Barden , if it were MY call, the uniform policy wouldn't have changed to begin with... but what do you expect from the same people who brought us the black beret.
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That is an Army thing. They are allowed to go about in their Cammies. I remember once in the 1980's while stationed at Pendleton there was a lot of talk about that issue. Apparently some Marines, including officers, wanted to do the same. This is how it was explained; "Cammies are your work attire; you are Marines; your work is war. Would you sit down to dinner with your mother in the same clothes waged war in?" I truly hope that never changes.
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Part of the problem is that the army has converted from the "Class A/B" uniform to the Army Service Uniform (ASU) but has not fielded the uniform to everyone as of yet. I just received mine this past summer but only because I was mentoring a soldier in the Guard Best Warrior Competition and needed one for DA Photos. In the most recent update to the AR 670-1 the ASU is currently designated as a Dress Uniform and the ACU is designated as a Mutli-purpose Utility Uniform. I do agree that wile the ASU looks sharper but at $700 per set the army cannot afford to issue more than 1 per person.
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In Basic Training you do get a set, but it has been 12 years since I went to basic where I received a set of Class-A's.
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I was on the field waving a flag for the Monday Night Football game on November 11th last year. If I remember correctly, all the branches wore their duty uniform for that event.
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Cpl Matthew Wall
I'm very surprised at that. Interesting! So then it must be a command by command decision on what they wear.
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Sgt W Hibshman
Actually there has to be some extenuating circumstance for a command to overrule the MCO which prohibits the wearing of utilities in public. For instance they were performing a labor prior to the event that would have soiled or damaged their UD's.
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Cpl Matthew Wall To answer your question, I feel that we would all look better if we were to wear our dress uniform to events like this.
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SGT Rick Nyberg Most of us changed into civilian clothes after the opening ceremony.
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