Would you support a standard uniform for all branches of service? Why or Why not?

We never should have gotten away from it. The Marines started it then all of the other services had to jump in. Such a waste of resources...and we cry poverty when it comes to training dollars and O/M money.

Answer: Yes, provided the camouflage actually blends in all environments were the forces are operating.

Reason: Cost savings to the tax payers. Yeah, it's that simple.

I think of pride in the branch of service an individual enters in when I think of something like this. I agree with those who say they wouldn't support something like this.

No, not unless in a common operational area.

All things aside, I think we tend to take pride in being clearly distinguished from other services. Granted, we all fight the same fight, but the uniform uniqueness adds a bit of pride to branch service. In my opinion.

No I think all need their own identity SGT Joseph Cardenas CSM Michael Boom SPC Margaret Higgins COL Mikel J. Burroughs CPL Dave Hoover SMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" Thomas LTC Stephen F. LTC Stephen C. SPC Douglas Bolton CPT Chris Loomis SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth CW5 Jack Cardwell

Here's my 2¢... Every service needs to maintain their own their own service & dress uniforms. These uniforms are stepped in history & tradition. Their roles... But DOD meds to pull it together on Battle Dress Uniform/Utilities. Completely ridiculous!

Whoever decided that blues and greys in camouflage pattern deserves the same fate as dose the creator of the ACU... a sound beating. If a situation warrents a pattern, then the color scheme should resemble the terrain. And they should all be the same. Exceptions to this could include service specific details, such as Army name tappes, the Marine Corp EGA, etc.

I would also be a fan of the camo uniform only be used during training or deployment, and bringing back the utility/work uniform...

With so many more joint operations with different branches of the service it seems at least the pattern of any camouflage uniform should be the same. Keep the service specific insignia. With people from different service all in the field together and not matching doesn't seem to make much sense. Patterns that blend with the location Would help, some of these uniforms stand out say against woodland as an example only a little better than white would. At least the Marines have figured out what colors and in nature and set out to blend with that. Seems the other services could learn from that. Instead of wasting money on all sorts of patterns that don't work, adopt one that does for all services. Only difference should be where the task is, dessert, woodland etc. Only class A and Class B uniforms should be specific to any one branch of the service. Shown here is one sampling of a number of different camouflage patterns and even more types have been added since this chart.

It's down to parts commonality; small group of vendors producing a quality battle uniform that not only readily identifies US forces but has all respective services using the same resources (i.e. Joint base carries one uniform with service-unique rank, badges, etc). We should have immediately recognized the waste from having every service strike out on their own to research and produce a distinctive uniform, the duplication of effort is mind-boggling in this era of financial constraints vying against new weapon systems with runaway budgets. If more than one uniform, then at least operational environment-specific uniforms, in lieu of service-specific.

Yes. This ain't no fashion show... to speak in old "hardass" NCO terms. We're here to fight and win wars. We (all) need the most effective camouflage pattern for the terrain we are in. If you want to wear different uniforms when not in combat, go back to the class-A/class-B garrison uniform. Camouflage is designed to blend in to the surrounding area, if you're just trying to look different than your ally counterparts, it might be time to rethink your priorities. I think it's well beyond fraud, waste and abuse the way we've spent millions of tax dollars (between all the branches) just to pick the prettiest (often least effective) pattern.

One team, one fight.

Another good one. The Marines went to digital, then Army did... The Navy and USAF were still sporting DBDUs... then they decided they needed a new uniform too... Riddle me the this batman.... why does the Air Force need Sage Green Tiger Stripes? and Green Boots? Why do Sailors need blue digital camouflage? You would think the Navy would have orange, so if they fell off a ship, someone could see you.... The ACU concept was a worthy idea (one camo pattern for every where) except it worked no where...

That aside, I think we all should have standard utility uniforms, with minimal markings (you know the Army gets carried away as does the Air Force with utility patches and badges...) and then a few variants for the most likely environments we will face.

I like the idea of a single combat uniform. So long as there are variants for different climates and terrain...