Posted on Feb 28, 2017
Of all the uniforms you wore, while serving our country, what was the strangest one?
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I have had many uniforms. In 1980 it was green fatigues, then BDUs in 82/83... In AK we had wool shirts, pants, Arctic mittens, VB boots, Mukluks, the 3 piece parka, and over-whites... Vietnam era Jungle Fatigues at Ranger school... Chocolate chip DBUs... 3 color DBUs... Multi-cams... Dress Greens, Blues, ASUs, The ACU Digital... ACU - OCP... The SWAT suit was the goofiest... or Polizei?
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The "pastel" camo uniform. Sorry no pic. COL Charles Williams . They may be the 3 color BDU's you posted. They didn't last long.
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My ugly old OD greens with oldest, WW2 style gear and webbing I could find in the mid 70's
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Nothing strange, But wearing a Parka, Insulated Bibs and bunny boots, anc carrying a .38 cal revolver, working K9, well it was "cumbersome" to say the least
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Mint Green class BP the females wore in 1979......never wore mine they were ugly
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For a short period of time in the late 80s, early 90s the AF had a gosh awful Summer white dress officer's uniform. It was modeled on the old Class A uniform, but it just looked wrong! We looked like kitchen stewart's or old time gas station attendants. Thank God it was cancelled.
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The strangest to me was our old summer service uniforms in light tan in the. Marines early seventies.
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LtCol Mac McCarty
That was a good uniform. And the cotton khakis were practical aboard ship. When we thought we were going ashore into Jordan in September/October 1970, we were the only unit in the Marine Corps that still has the cotton khaki--it became obsolete after we deployed. Our RM liaison told the Brigade Commander (ADC, 2dMarDiv) that we would stand out like a green forest in the desert in our sateen utilities. The General said "He'll, we'll just go ashore in khakis and helmet covers brown side out--like we did at Guadalcanal in 42!"
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SSG Johnnie Vaughn
The shirt was reversible; black/yellow; but they accomplished this by basically having a dual layer fabric, which made it uncomfortably hot. The material for the top shrank severely with the first couple of washes, but the front nylon zipper didn't, so you can imagine the effect.
And you still had to have road guards, with the vests... go figure.
And you still had to have road guards, with the vests... go figure.
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COL Charles Williams
SSG Johnnie Vaughn - Roger. My brother had one... It was probably considered state of the art at the time. Who is the dude marching you in jeans?
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SSG Johnnie Vaughn
COL Charles Williams - That, sir, was just a picture I found to show what they looked like. Fortunately I don't have any actual pictures of myself in that "stylish" monstrosity...
Memories are bad enough.
:-)
Memories are bad enough.
:-)
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