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

I'd just be scared of what group of morons would decide the pattern. We might end up all wearing that pink and purple camo.

Supposed to be one team one fight right?

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SFC Michael Jackson, MBA If this happened, then what would the military industrial complex (uniform makers) do? they'd go broke, the U.S. Military could save tons of money or put it to better use. How dare you bring up something so sensible!! I almost down voted you for making such a statement!!

I like the idea of a common combat/field uniform with branch specific rank etc. Each branch, by all means, should keep their unique dress uniforms.
Seems like a common combat/field uniform would simplify the procurement process and possibly reduce DoD budget since they would not have to rely on multiple vendors for several different uniforms. I like either the ACU or MARPAT, from what I have read the AF goes to ACU's when deployed anyway.

As long as the Marines and the Navy get to keep an eight-pointed utility cover, I'd be fine if the rest was the same for field uniforms. I was never a fan of the Army/Air force version.

From a economic, logistic and functional standpoint, yes having a common field uniform is the way to go. Service individuality/pride is adequately expressed by service and dress uniforms.

Wow our memories are short, or we've really just turned over that many personnel! The BDU and DCU were common uniforms, and I don't think the basic flight suit varies between services either except for rank insignia and patches. This isn't a far out concept here. For in garrison work I get it - personally I think it's silly to wear anything camo'd up in an office, always have, but unless we're willing to go even further back and put everyone in olive drab fatigues (the old pickle suit), let's just pick something and stay with it for utilities. Dress uniforms, let's just stop obsessing over this already.

While over the years they have been many efforts at cross service standardization most of those efforts fail. Why? Because each branch of the service has its own unique culture and prioritization of values. The bottom line each branch is going to wear what it wants to wear. The Marines are never going to adopt a uniform from the Army because they want to look like Marines and not Soldiers. (Whom they consider an lower order of being.) The Air Force wants their own look so that's why they wear green boots when Army boots (for now) are tan or "coyote brown" (whatever that is).

Is the Navy going to abandon its white uniforms because none of the other services have them? No. Robert Redford made sure that the service dress "choker" whites for Navy officers would be around for another 100 years in the movie "The Way We Were" in 1973. (How many fashions which were cool in 1973 are still cool today? Plaid men's shirts? PLEAASSSEE!) The Marine Corps dress blues are probably the closest thing to fashion perfection ever invented and will NEVER change.

Sure, there's some room for standardization in the area of utility/combat uniforms. But, again, the problem is that one service doesn't want to be like the other.

Sooo.... After they spend 6 trillion dollars on the F-35 and have built only 100 of them before the cancel the program. They will realize that trying to build a "one size fits all" jet fighter doesn't work.

Let each service handle its own procurement and it will cost less in the long run.

I for one have worn the pickle suit, the woodland camo, at that time the utility uniform was universal across the services. Then the 5 services went insane and each service developed their service specific utility uniforms. What a WASTE!!!!! We are short of money for almost everything, weapons, vehicles, maintenance, pay, bonuses, to name a few! But we allocate money for a committee to develop a service specific utility uniform and field gear. I was in the Air Guard for a time, I picked up a surplus Air Force Arctic Parka, My brother joined the Navy and became a submariner. He was in New London pulling deck watch,and freezing. We were talking on the phone and he asked about my parka. I told him I still had it, he asked me to send it to him. I did and the deck watch used it to keep warm. He was talking with me later and said I wish I had the stock number for that parka, I told him it was on the label inside the collar. He attempted to order some parkas for the sub deck watch, the requisition got to base supply, and was turned back, Air Force item not authorized for the Navy. The Navy has a similar item for Navy use. It was not the same nor as warm. I would recommend a joint service committee to develop utility and field equipment. I would make sure all specifications were necessary. Case in point I was aware of a butcher's apron, duck cloth with RED STITCHING. These were used to cut meat for cooking, they are used to protect the cooks uniform from getting bloodied up. The stitching is only a means to assure that a certain provider gets the contract! The Army 2 piece rain suit specified a SILK label to assure the correct contractor was awarded the contract! All specifications should be checked for necessity, and make sure that it does not circumvent the Competitive Bid process!

This is a terrible, being a Marine, we like the fact that we are different. You can tell a Marine by the care of his/her uniform and telling us to wear the same uniform as another branch doesn't do us any justice. Enemies see marpat green/desert and know that hell is coming. We don't want to be associated with another branch