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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Sgt William Turner
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combat uniforms are one thing. all being the same makes id easier. however formal uniforms should be traditional and different. Pomp and circumstance should show in the variations of traditional uniforms.
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MSgt Rick Chatwell
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yes for the love of god yes, and quit changing the goddamn thing every ten seconds. One working uniform with branch patches, and one individual dress uniforms per branch, cracker jacks for Navy, awesome marine Dress, awesome army dress, and air force bus driver suit. The money save would be insane! not to mention some staffer in DC would have to find a better use of their time!
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CPT(P) Commercial Sr. Manager, Revenue Management
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No. Each branch has a specific mission and the uniform is tailored for their respective operational environment.
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Sgt William Turner
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i disagree. Combat bdu's have not changed that much since i was in viet nam. a basic BDU funtional to all services would not be hard, and it would save much money . no jobs would be lost because the inventory wouldnt change mkerely the funtionality .
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CPO Deborah Simmons
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I would not suppose the idea. I like the uniqueness of each of the branches uniform. We don't have to look alike to support our country. I am a proud Retired Navy Chief Petty Officer. I love the Navy uniforms, especially the Khakis and Chiefs Dress Whites. Marines uniforms are awesome and sharp, love them. AF and Army, your uniforms are nice also. To go to one uniform is like having only one branch of the service. My opinion.
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Edited 7 y ago
I seem to recall this conversation occurring at Congress back in 2014 where they said all services would be in the same uniform by 2018. The Marines aren't really fans and the Navy just created their Type 3's, so it appears the Army and Air Force are the only ones on board. I would absolutely support it. This identity crisis that we have gone through over the past decade has been pointless and costly. Remember when you could get a full uniform for under $60 ready to wear, minus the boots? That was the benefit of one uniform. It was cheap. It would be great to see all services adopt the OCP (or any pattern for that matter) but only time will tell if it will ever happen. One camouflage uniform for all and retain our independence with our dress uniforms.
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SFC Brigade Master Driver
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At a minimum, all U.S. forces should wear the same type combat field uniform when deployed or mobilized, to make us look more United.
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SPC Jacob Hostetler
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One Uniform would be budget friendly, across the board, but keep are head gear and ranks system branch specific.
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CWO2 M J
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It all needs to be the same. The dumbest decision the dod ever made was to allow the services to go buck wild with uniforms. Tri color cammies were cheap. When the corps went to digis the cost almost doubled. The services list the leverage they had with bulk ordering millions of uniforms. Also the navy and air force uniforms looked ridiculous and the army bdu was some of the worst quality military clothing ever made (the original one). As for the Marines, where do I begin. They made the collar ridiculous and curved so you couldn't even align you ensignia properly. The pockets all feel apart in what felt like weeks. If you took them to the field they were pretty much worthless in garrison because they would have so many holes in them. I could go on and on but the point is that if the services have joint leverage on a uniform that is common across al, it will be higher quality, cheaper, and really easy to find since the same uniform would be in every px, mcx, and aafes.
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PO1 Operations Specialist
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Hell No/ Each branch should have it's own uniform and the navy does not need camo. Nothing was wrong with the old dungaree work uniform and the traditional navy uniform of white for summer and blues for winter is the best. The marines should not have the same as army and same for air force. We each did different jobs and were proud to wear the uniforms of our particular branch. Don't go stupid.
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MAJ John Douglas
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No, we tried that before and it was unpopular and took away from service identity. Keep the different uniforms.
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1SG Dale Cantrell
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Yes on the standard uniform in combat area to all US troops, no ally troops, no contractors, no translators , nothing but US troops
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SSG Deron Santiny
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Yes, it would save lots of money on various uniforms as well as show uniformity. Although we all serve in separate branches and we all have our distinct jobs, the Uniformity in the same uniform would show others that we are all one Military. Many may disagree but, that is my opinion. If older Warriors remember, before the ACU came into effect for the Army, the Marine Corps had it's MARPAT and the Navy went with its Blue Camo and the Air Foce went with it's latest pattern, we all wore the BDU's.
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LCpl Roy McMillan
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I whole heartedly disagree. A Marine or Army infantryman could too easily mistake some Airforce or Navy non-combat service member as an ally covering their six and end up overrun because of ill equipped and untrained personnel being in the wrong uniform.

For centuries the different uniform has identified who's who on a battlefield and give a quick visual.queue of who is where, and how they are doing.
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SGT Military Police
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Maybe a more senior/seasoned vet can enlighten me. I don't understand why we don't use plain OD for working, field, etc, and draw theater specific camo for deployments.
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SSG Deron Santiny
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The cost of such thing would make it almost impossible to keep up with. It already cost a fortune for uniforms (all items) and you know as well as I know that the small amount you get for the "Uniform Allowance" doesn't cover everything you need. We already had the DCU's for deploying units (before the Multi-Cam uniform).
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CAPT Steve E.
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I disagree with a 'one uniform' armed service. We have different services with different missions requiring different uniforms for one. A bit of a split between the services is not necessarily a bad thing when it comes to preserving the Republic as well.
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PO2 Rick Henderson
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More of a question really. I have been out for quite some time now and I was just wondering. Is the uniform allowance still as woefully inadequate as it was in the 90's?
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CPT Tim Homolak
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single uniform hurts esprit de corps. Been in multiple branches and very much identified with the uniform of the branch I was with at that given time.
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SSgt Holden M.
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I personally think that it's the smartest way to go. One uniform for all branches, besides the rank and the branch strip being different. You don't have each branch spending a bunch of money on different uniforms. Kind of like back when the BDU's were still around besides the Navy not doing much with them as far as I heard. I think all the years of all the branches playing around with their different color/pattern uniforms was pretty dumb to begin with.
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SSG Chris Tierney
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I started my Army career when all branches of service wore BDUs. We were one team, one fight. We need to stop the individualism and get back that “one team, one fight” mentality.
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Alfred Perdue
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Common uniform is fine. Might need different boots shipboard.
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