Posted on Dec 17, 2014
SFC Michael Jackson, MBA
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the closest I seen to a standard uniform for the Armed Forces was the multicam uniform when I was in Kandahar, and Air Force all wearing the uniform at one point with few deviations. Would do feel about this?
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Cpl Scott McCarroll
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SFC Michael Jackson, MBA I am really ambivalent, however that being said,as a Marine, I am not for all the flash badges that are on the Army and Air Force BDU's. To my thinking it gives to much information should they be killed or captured. I'M HOME.
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CPT Jeff Porterfield
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In Garrison, decorative badges, such as the Ranger tab and the CIB are useful to signify special achievements and build esprit de corps, but in the field, they need not be worn.
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CW3 Chief Of Police
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I don't know about the rest of you but identifying rank in these things is hard. I do like that we are saving the taxpayers money. They've wasted thousands on cammo patterns over the last decade. It's become a fashion show. Also, I never understood the blue cammo. What background does that blend into? Iraq and Afghanistan are pretty much tan/sand colored. The multicam makes sense there.
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Cpl Mark Gray
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Nope I will Not support that. In 1964 Macnamara tried that
when he tried to save money on the Armed Forces. We were issued good boots that almost lasted 4 years and gave us the crappy ones that rotted out in 6 months, He took away our brown shoes and changed them to black He took away out Utilities and made us wear those god awful army one's made from much cheaper material. he took away our all Wool Green Winter service class A's, and replaced them with the cheap imitation green Officers were given in all it was a complete Failure.

No keep it the way it is, I joined the Marines not the army, air force of the friggin Navy.
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1SG Patrick Sims
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The samne field uniform would be a common sense approach to this question. but as we all know, there are people in there military who aren't long on common sense. This having been said, the Marines may want to keep their locomotive engineer's has. Now that were on the subject of uniforms. It would be great if the Navy and Coast Guard got rid of their funny hats, and adopted the dark blue or white garrison cap other navies wear.
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MSgt Support
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I support a single uniform for all branches. We should have transitioned to a single uniform many years ago. There should also be a simple standard requirement for all branches. Hopefully, the next uniform board meeting will keep that in mind before submitting new policy changes.
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SSG(P) Brian Kliesen
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The issue is not only the BDU, but the individual services have a number of Class A, B, and C uniforms, Mess Uniforms, Dress Uniforms, etc., that are a waste of resources. How many different versions of dress mess uniforms to the military have? Individual identity is important in the office, commonality on the battlefield, but why all the other extras? Simplify, simplify, simplify. The Marines got the MARPAT correct. The Army wasted billions on theirs. Imagine if those resources had been put into the VA? or housing? or family programs? or actual training?
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SGT Harvey Putterbaugh
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No. Different materials, design, and color for different takes/assignments. Finally, tradition.
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SPC Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic
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Personally I would say No. Each Branch has jobs and training that they do/have and how you approach talking to them would be potentially different because of that. And within a branch of service having some differences helps us know who we are talking with
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CPL Motor Transport Operator
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I would be ok with it but ranks for the various branches should also be uniform. Otherwise there could very quickly be issues with people not showing proper respect /etiquette.
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SPC Steve Willis, PhD
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Having a unified (pardon the pun!) digi-camo BDU for all branches would greatly simplify the acquisition and evaluation process and ultimately lower costs to the taxpayer and/or allow the funds otherwise wasted on each branch having a unique BDU be made available to other far-more-mission-critical items that may be lacking sufficient funding. That being said, the Marines and the Army get to pick, because these are the folks whose lives depend upon their uniforms having effective camouflage, wearability under extreme environmental conditions, and IR-supression. The problem is getting the Marines and the Army to set aside inter-service rivalries and agree on something which should be, in the final analysis, quite trivial.
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