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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During the McPeak era. BDU's with flightcrew leather name patch and stripes on the sleeve.
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SSgt Christopher Mortell
Have to agree there. Couldn't tell who was who. Everybody was saluting everyone just in case.
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MSgt Robert Rickard
The first version had NO STRIPES on the sleeve. Then came the patch WITH STRIPES. Both versions sucked. We also tested blue tiger stripe BDU's with a tiny AF logo embedded into the whole uniform - thank god it never was approved.
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Yeah I don't have nothing special but I did go through two different dress uniforms and 4 different uniform changes. When ACU's came out it was horrible. BDU's, ACU vest, DCU pouches, and also Like 3 different helmets. But of course the uniform don't make the soldier.
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R.O.K. (circa mid seventies), our winter uniform was standard fatigues with the shirt worn over a black turtle neck sweater. I didn't find it strange, I rather liked it. We we're also issued "artic weather" gear (eskimo clothes) but never once did we wear it.
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SPC Mark Brown
While I was in ROK we had extended periods of time out in the field. We had to wear the OD Wool fatigues, itchy as hell. Wool long johns, very itchy, Field jacket and/or parka big enough to cover your jeep with and the always fashionable mickey mouse boots, air valve an all. Oh, and the Elmer Fudd head gear with ear flaps and all. We were able to hold off the NKs because they were laughing so hard at our appearance they couldn't do anything else.
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I went in in 84 and had 3 color bdu's that had a collar that was from the 70's, I think the term back then was "butterfly collar".
At my first duty station in Fulda Germany we could wear the Vietnam jungle fatigues or as a driver we could wear the OG 107 tuck in shirt then in the late 80's we had the lightweight rip-stop 3 color bud's. oh yes and the dreadful Cunt Cap for the class B dress uniform.
At my first duty station in Fulda Germany we could wear the Vietnam jungle fatigues or as a driver we could wear the OG 107 tuck in shirt then in the late 80's we had the lightweight rip-stop 3 color bud's. oh yes and the dreadful Cunt Cap for the class B dress uniform.
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