Posted on Sep 18, 2013
Should the services go back to a standardized battle uniform?
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Should each service have their own battle uniform or standardize back to a single, or even several uniforms.
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Definitely. There is no reason we should have different battle dress uniforms based on service rather than environment.
Allow the Air Force to put their huge rank on the sleeve, the DON to sow name tapes on butt pockets, and let the Marines keep their jar head hat. Millions saved, joint environment strengthened, and less heckling from foreign militaries.
Additionally, if you want to be different from your brethren in the DOD, wear the dress uniform.
Allow the Air Force to put their huge rank on the sleeve, the DON to sow name tapes on butt pockets, and let the Marines keep their jar head hat. Millions saved, joint environment strengthened, and less heckling from foreign militaries.
Additionally, if you want to be different from your brethren in the DOD, wear the dress uniform.
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I'd like to see a uniform where it doesn't look like a game of Galaga or Tetris is being played on it. I agree though, having all the services in one utility uniform would be cost saving and present a cohesive, unified look for our military.
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A1C Michael David Severson
I agree also. Dress uniforms show pride in a particular service, but for the rest, showboating on looking mean and green on the battlefield is superfluous.
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https://www.rallypoint.com/questions/20011-congress-wants-common-camouflage-uniform
If you had a choice, which uniform pattern/style would you want to wear?This year, the Joint Staff’s top enlisted adviser, Marine Sgt. Maj. Bryan Battaglia, said the mix of uniforms makes the U.S. mil...
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I say no! I don't want some airman thinking he's as cool as me just because he dresses like me. ;-)
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SSG Matt Murphy In that picture above what are you wearing? It looks like a camo sweater...is it?
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SSG Matt Murphy
It is a British Army sweater (worn under my camo) given to me in Hong Kong when I was on R&R from Viet Nam in '67. And the emblem on the sleeve is British WO I believe. Indestructible. Met some British troops in the Waltzing Matilda bar.....they took me up to their post on the top of a mountain.......great time.
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When the BDUs were around, they worked great for what we had. The look of the new OCPs and the Marine digital uniforms seem to be the best out of the options we have now. There was an article put out in June about a universal uniform for all branches. I never really understood why we as a whole had to go to branch specific uniforms to begin with. Looking at where we were overseas and interacting with other services from the various different countries, we as a whole were less distinguishable than others. Depending on your mission or what branch you served in, you could be wearing your Marine uniform, the Army's ACUs, OCPs, or the Air Force's ABUs. One uniform only make sense not only fiscally but as a way to unify the US military services as a whole.
For those that want to read the article I've posted added the link here:
The House Armed Services Committee passes a measure to require all U.S. armed services to wear one camouflage pattern. The amendment ends service-specific camouflage and pushed the military to create ...
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I have to agree. We all had the same uniform for so long. The BDU was a success, we all had our own stylized ranks and uniform badges as well as unit patches. I was laughing the other day when I read an article about the top brass in the USMC fighting over individuality and keeping their current uniform. Really? We are all in the military. Having our Service Uniforms is distinction enough. I think we should all go to the marines two uniforms. The Greens Battle dress of CONUS and tan battle dress for deployments. The major hurdle the military has to overcome is that the Marines didn't do through proper development channels in DoD and now have a trademarked uniform that the other services can't use....Thanks Battle.
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A common field uniform (or pair of uniforms - one for summer, one for winter) would be fine, but makes too much sense. The services will spend more time squabbling about the design that we'll all be retired by then
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Here's the funny art. When we were in BDUs we HAD a common service uniform. Then the craze was service specific uniforms. Now they're calling for a common service uniform again. We might as well have just kept the BDU/DCU combination.
I am in favor of a common uniform. We are in different branches, we are all serve the USA. We should wear a common uniform that shows unity between all branches and represent the United States Military. We will still have specific markings to show which branch/units we belong to.
I am in favor of a common uniform. We are in different branches, we are all serve the USA. We should wear a common uniform that shows unity between all branches and represent the United States Military. We will still have specific markings to show which branch/units we belong to.
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I think that we shoud utilize the same combat/camoflauge uniforms. Frankly, MARPAT seems to be the best woodland/desert combo. However, if the Marines are going to be so particular about the rest of the DoD adopting it, lets go with the Navy's new uniforms (the woodland and desert, not the blue). They are very similar and the uniform seems to have pretty decent functionallity. Multicams could also be retained as a third option if needed for certain environments.
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CMDCM Gene Treants
No Blue Cammie. Now I really have to protest there. What happens if a Sailor falls off a ship and is attacked by a Shark of other seaborne Predator. Remember that has to be the only reason for that unique color. Otherwise we might as well all be wearing the same uniforms when deployed to a combat zone. Save the Blue, Fight the Sharks!.
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MCPO, I am talking about the woodland/desert variations worn by Seabees, Special Warfare, etc. It has similar characteristics to MARPAT, is a functional uniform already in DOD inventory and could be expanded for all services quickly.
I always had the Blue NWU explained to me as it presents a uniform which can be worn with minor soiling and staining because they would not be as prevelant on the pattern (as can be encountered in a shipboard environment).
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I am not clear on what the cost savings would be -- I would like to know this in order to think about how strong of an argument that is. But as I look at the DoD's changing mission set, it makes sense to me that we should have a much smaller number of uniforms. Whether that should be 1 single uniform is beyond my level of understanding, since I don't know all the branches' mission sets well enough. But spending money on tons of uniform variations is a hard thing to swallow when we are cutting back on major DoD programs that directly impact families and other programs.
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