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COL Charles Williams
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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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COL Charles Williams
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Why... TSgt (Join to see) did the USAF need Tiger Stripes and Green Boots... or better yet why did the Navy need Blue Digital Camouflage? By the why, the Navy dropped the Blue digital last year...
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Rumour had it that the blue digital was originally USAF's choice after the BDUs but then went with ABUs.
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CPL 92 G Foodservice Specialist
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How long were you in the 1970s had all green uniform and you recall the uniform of today that's over 40 years of service
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PO2 Joseph Allen
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When President Clinton came to our base we wore the Yankee Uniform for the Navy. White pants, shirt, black tie and tunic with medals and ribbons. Found it listed as obsolete as of 1981.
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MSG Mark Stinson
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For a short time the Army came out with Bermuda shorts for tropical wear. My dad tried a set while stationed at Ft Bliss, TX. Thank God they were dropped the same year.
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SSG Edward Tilton
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Saigon in the early 60's. We were all issued those shorts but no one woulds wear them
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COL Charles Williams
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Cool... literally! SSG Edward Tilton Thanks for your service.
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1LT Peter Duston
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Nice legs and brave!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sgt Gerald Dinsmore
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fatigues
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the DCU's
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LTC Jason Mackay
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The three color pattern DCUs would hit the point they got soft like PJs.
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It's a toss up between the digi half and half and the Brit /Rhodesian ensamble. As cool as the Marine digis are we would sometimes find ourselves in places where neither woodland nor deserts matched the terrain or hid us very well so we would split the difference usually with woodland tops and desert pants. Luckily we had been issued the coyote tan carriers, cause for a while we had a mix of woodland and desert interceptors based on size and what was turned back in. If I remember one of the smallest guys we had was issued the 1990's swat black interceptor like vest because it was all that would fit him. As for the Rhody Brit camo, we were training with SEALs who were graining with the Brits and something about blending in caused the SEALs to all want to wear either Rhodesian Jungle uniforms or the British desert pattern which was the same thing with tan replacing green. Either way it was the cool sought after uniform that made us feel high speed at the time lol.
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COL Charles Williams
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Interesting! Cpl (Join to see)... You are lucky you did not have to live thru UCP - Universal Camo Pattern - The Army Digital one size fits all... Which really was good nowhere. When interceptor body armor was 1st issues to our HMMWV gunners in Somalia (92-93) the carriers were black.
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Yeah, I grew up near JBLM, I didn't see the UCP until a week or two after I came home from boot camp. I was literally walking in the mall and thought someone had the saltiest cammies in existance. (The Marines woodland camo uniforms would fade in the sun, you could tell who had been in longest by how faded their uniform was. Deserts would turn almost white and woodlands looked like UCP with black spots.) Found out they were Army and I guess the special units got them first at Lewis. So yeah avoided UCP by not being Amry hahah, was issued a number of sets later though when I worked as a contract tech in Afghan. We had one instructor in Infantry school and another in AUC course who were issued the urban digital uniforms, the idea was that Marines would get to the edge of the city and change into cqb uniforms... I will try to find a picture but I think that is where the black interceptors we had came from.
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Yeah this uniform...
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I remember swapping headgear on deployments with NATO and other allied groups. The BEST swap was a DCU OR Woodland cap that was worn as hell, the greasier, torn up and beat to death the better. I have a nice Italian Marine Beret i got for a cap so old my Capt used to yell at me when I wore it anywhere but on Field exercises...
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SSG Donald O'Shei
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The yellow Double Zip Jump Suit at HALO School (Military Free Fall Parachutist Course).
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SPC William Hedges
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while working as a MP at Ft. Leonard Wood in 1967 wool OD shirt and trousers with a field Jacket
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