Posted on Sep 19, 2014
Should velcro finally disappear with the new Army Combat Uniform with Scorpian W2 Pattern?
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I've been sewing on my uniform tapes since it's been authorized. If you take a look around and it seems, in my opinion, most Soldier's are already going back to sewing on the tapes and badge qualifications. I believe it looks more professional and I don't have to stick/restick in badges or blacken them when the gold starts showing. The Army switched to hook-and-loop fasteners (referred to as Velcro from here on) to save the Soldier money and ease the transferring of items from one uniform to the other. When you were told you could sew on the tapes and badges. What did you do? Did you hop on board or wait until you had a general consensus of what everyone else was going to do?
Now we, as an Army, have the opportunity to fix where the ACU went HORRIBLY wrong. Although, SMA Chandler said the uniform styling cues weren't changing but aren't we passed the "let's throw some Velcro back on the new uniform so we can go ahead and sew over it again". Leave the stitch marks for where it needs to be (name tapes and rank) and let's go ahead and sew on our American Flag, that's not changing, and our combat patch, that rarely changes, and our unit patch, changes every few years. Last time I checked we took pride in our uniforms, or used to, and let's pay the 40 bucks to get all the hoopla sewn on and call it a day. I won't even get started on the Velcro pockets on this thread, which as you know, have been slowly disappearing as they update the ACU every so often. What say you?
Now we, as an Army, have the opportunity to fix where the ACU went HORRIBLY wrong. Although, SMA Chandler said the uniform styling cues weren't changing but aren't we passed the "let's throw some Velcro back on the new uniform so we can go ahead and sew over it again". Leave the stitch marks for where it needs to be (name tapes and rank) and let's go ahead and sew on our American Flag, that's not changing, and our combat patch, that rarely changes, and our unit patch, changes every few years. Last time I checked we took pride in our uniforms, or used to, and let's pay the 40 bucks to get all the hoopla sewn on and call it a day. I won't even get started on the Velcro pockets on this thread, which as you know, have been slowly disappearing as they update the ACU every so often. What say you?
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Take a look at the link for the finalized uniform to be released in the very near future. It seems that the only velcro sustained from the UCP/ACU is for the unit/combat patches and rank/nametape/U.S. Army Tapes. Everything else has transitioned to buttons. It is still frustrating to see that velcro is the staple for things we CAN change yet choose to sew on to look more professional. Soldiers want to take pride in their uniforms, or even if they don't, can be instilled in them by their NCOs. All of my Soldiers in my platoon have their tapes sewn on by choice not by force. It is not required to be sewn however, that pride they have in their uniform reflects in their daily life as Soldiers. We have to allow Soldiers to choose to be squared away however, requiring them to do certain things like we used to do with BDUs, made it that much more special when we were part of a unit, deployed to combat, or have that U.S. Flag permanently affixed to the uniform. Saving money should never be a reason unless it costs the Soldier at the lowest level to spend a large sum of money to have, which is issued by CIF and lost by the Soldier, which happens due to failure to maintain positive control. I've been in an Army of transition since I first enlisted in '03 and hopefully, this should be one of the last items we have to embrace at the personal level after a $3 billion error we had to live with since 2005.
Take a look at the link for the finalized uniform to be released in the very near future. It seems that the only velcro sustained from the UCP/ACU is for the unit/combat patches and rank/nametape/U.S. Army Tapes. Everything else has transitioned to buttons. It is still frustrating to see that velcro is the staple for things we CAN change yet choose to sew on to look more professional. Soldiers want to take pride in their uniforms, or even if they don't, can be instilled in them by their NCOs. All of my Soldiers in my platoon have their tapes sewn on by choice not by force. It is not required to be sewn however, that pride they have in their uniform reflects in their daily life as Soldiers. We have to allow Soldiers to choose to be squared away however, requiring them to do certain things like we used to do with BDUs, made it that much more special when we were part of a unit, deployed to combat, or have that U.S. Flag permanently affixed to the uniform. Saving money should never be a reason unless it costs the Soldier at the lowest level to spend a large sum of money to have, which is issued by CIF and lost by the Soldier, which happens due to failure to maintain positive control. I've been in an Army of transition since I first enlisted in '03 and hopefully, this should be one of the last items we have to embrace at the personal level after a $3 billion error we had to live with since 2005.
On 7 July, 2015 the US Patent and Trade Office issued Utility Patent 9,074,849, Entitled: “Camouflage for Garment Assembly” to the United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army. It followed Utility Patent 9,062,938, Entitled: “Camouflage Patterns”, issued two weeks earlier on 23 June, 2015. Both cover Scorpion W20601, initially developed in 2010 by engineers at the Natick Soldier Systems Center and later, after further...
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I'm probably biased but I think the AF uniform looks so much better because it doesn't have all the Velcro.
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