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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80s/90s Color guards wearing the PASGT Kevlar helmet... with Class As... trousers bloused into issue leg boots... with a cravat... a uniform nowhere to be found in 670-1
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CW5 Ranger Dave
CW5 Sam R. Baker - You bet! "Sir, the Army pays me to tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear."
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
Here is the color Guard from Bordentown Military Instituter, Bordentown, NJ which was near the Fort Dix area. 1st Sgt Callen, I guess this is what You were talking about as to added items for the color Guard. I was a Cadet here in the distant past although was never on the color Guard. The school had an Army ROTC program.
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The Air Force uniform I wore that is most unlike today's uniforms is the shade 1505 summer uniform. The 1505s had some synthetic fiber in them and were supposedly wash and wear. I also wore their predecessor during my first 3 years of ROTC. That uniform (shade 505) was all cotton. It had to be pressed to look at all respectable. We were issued four sets of new 1505s before we went to ROTC summer camp. The attached picture is representative and not of me.
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Lt Col Jim Coe
LCpl Anthony Estrada - agree but that's probably a basic training picture. You wear what they give you. Besides it's an Air Force uniform.
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
I wore 1505s quite a few year working Law Enforcement in the USAF. My 1505s however were all tailored thus they fit well and were well pressed with sharp creases. The Air Police/Security Police kept a very sharp appearance.
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How about this one! That's me role playing MAJ Pavlov of Soviet Army for "Threat" classes taught at Ft. Benning for OSUT Infantry Basic back in the llate '80's.
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1LT Peter Duston
I also wore Russian Uniforms at Army Language School (DLI) in 1956-57 when we role played for an Army PR Film about "Operation Jabber" I think, about interrogating enemy soldiers. Also as an Intelligence branch reservist in the late 60's, I was attached to the 10th Group at Ft. Devens as a linguist and wrote a POI for teaching Russian to SF Troops. It was always funny that I would drive onto Devens dressed in a Russian uniform with a hammer and sickle on my cap and usually got a salute at the gate. I role played a Russian SGT for the classes I taught. The photo below was taken in Nov 2016. I got promoted to Russian Colonel Ivanov - Cold War role playing presenting the Soviet point of view for various Cold War events. At 78, I am also still wearing my "Blues" as a bugler with the Air Force Honor Guard here in Maine for funerals and other events.
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1LT Peter Duston
I found an old slide from my Monterey days at the Army Language School (DLI) in 1956-57. Here we are in Russian uniforms for total immersion language training and for that training exercise with troops from Ft. Ord. We role played for Army Intelligence interrogations of captured enemy soldiers. Operation "Jabber" it was called, I believe.
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Full MOPP-4 gear while standing mail buoy watch. /facepalm #thingsIwishIcouldtellmyyoungerself
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PO2 Alfonso Maury
I pissed off the mmow on the 04-08 and he made me stand stack watch from 0530 to 0630 when we were underway. Pitch black out and i had to call in on sound powered phones every 15 mins that i couldn't tell what color smoke was coming out of the stack.
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I would suppose it was some random uniform a DS came up with while messing with us one night. It would be something like, "White sock on the left foot, green sock on the right, combat boot on the left foot, shower shoe on the right, PT t shirt under ACU top, ACU bottoms, Patrol cap in left pocket, fleece cap in right pocket! Toe the line in 3 minutes!" Or something like that. Of course somebody, or depending on how complicated the uniform was many bodies would screw it up, and we'd get a new uniform to try out.
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COL Charles Williams
SSgt (Join to see) Ah yes... uniform drills... I forgot those, and luckily or unfortunately, I have no photos...
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The Navy's misguided attempt to replace dungarees. Boot camp, Great Lakes, IL, 1975.
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PO2 Dean Vander Linde
I was issued those at Great Lakes in 1974. I hated the "salt and pepper" summer uniform.
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PO3 Thomas Socha
I was issued those in great Lakes as well 1977.couldnt wait to get to fleet and get some dungarees
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CPO Mark Robinson
PO2 Dean Vander Linde - Salt and Pepper would be my pick. I always liked pulling in to Pearl so I could wear the Tropical Whites which would become the Summer Whites.
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CPO Mark Robinson
'79 we were issued the ones with the button up shirts which were not too bad but the pants were horrible. The stitching would start to run and the pockets would fall off.
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AF PT Gear.....cotton shirts and swishy shorts from the 1970s gymnasium teacher collection
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The following isn't about an approved uniform, but it's what I had at the time...... so there is was in Kanda hard Airfield, had just gotten done fighting a rather persistent sandstorm in the South Park area. Let the supply sgt I worked with know I was going back to my chu to shower and change. We are talking soon dusty I put an inch of mud on the floor washing off. So I'm cleaning out my ears in sandals and put shorts when the rocket attack alarm goes off (mid 09, when it was still a British woman announcing). Out to the bunker in what I'm wearing like a good little Joe. Then word comes down that 4 more were at the launch point and we had to get gear on and hunker down while EOD flew out to get them. Now, my helmet is back at the shop full of sand. I say screw it, just put on my IOTV (flak vest for those who don't know) and grab my Willie x's and smokes. 3 hours into waiting I step out the bunker to light one up. A LT, no gear on walks up and asks "are we still on lock down Sgt?" Now, to recap, I'm dressed in sandals, pt shorts, IOTV vest, wraparound sunglasses smoking a cigarette. No head gear. I say "well Sir, would I be dressed like this if we weren't?" He mumbles good point and continues walking down the road to the amusement of me and several others in the bunker! Did get a bit more in line with 670-1 when the all clear sounded an hour later though
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SPC Mark Brown
These are the stories that make looking back on our military service even more fun. These little incidents were funny at the time but the more you think about it the funnier it gets. I have had a few of these things.
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