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

Marines won’t give up their 8point for our(army) ragged ass cover

If you read all the comments, you will discover that most of the people who are for this idea are soldiers, airmen, and sailors, and most of the people who are against it are Marines. As a Marine, i can tell you that we take pride in not being anything like the army. We take pride in our own identity. We take prideb im not using velcro, using actual boot bands, pinning on rank, and our EGA over our heart. Every single Marine and veteran Marine will oppose this. Let the Army and Air Force share their service uniform patern if they want, but let the Navy and Marine Corps keep theirs.

No. The Marine Corps should never go back to being confused with the sloppiness of the Army. The Marine Corps broke away and everyone else followed. We have the best and that is why everyone else tried to mimic it with failure. So no the Army can not ever have our look again. Semper Fidelis!!!!

Since the BDU the DOD has wasted more money on uniforms I think there should be a standard Battle uniform across all branches

I would say yes, but starting with new addition uniforms and not requiring elimination of the current uniforms. It's crazy to require the individual or the government to essentially trash can serviceable uniforms. Set a start date and perhaps a two year transition time. After the transition time is passed the old uniforms would have to go. This could be amended for men and women who are in combat zones, but would require completion within 45 days of leaving the zone.

No, when the Marines came out with the cammo they got it was to set them apart. Your not going to get them to agree to wear that silly looking rounded off cammo cover either. They shouldn't be forced into it either!

No. History and traditions are represented by specific service uniforms. For daily work wear, I could see a common fatigue uniform, such as the Marines' digital camo

We could all wear the Navy uniforms, bellbottoms in combat would be far out. The same dress uniforms would make sense too for the same reasons, to save money, officers and enlisted alike could wear the same Class A, ranks would be all you need. You can save there too. All in all , I think the idea sucks, Marine can stay the same and the rest of you can be soldiers.

Now come on, we can't be introducing a common sense approach to uniforms. Too many fashion industry lobbyists have families to feed. The switch to a common field uniform for all the services would put them out of a job.

It’s a decision whose time has come...for a field uniform that is. Dress uniforms should retain service’s distinctiveness.

A major challenge with this would be Marines and Sailors don’t wear all the badges that the Army wears on their utilities. So there would be a bunch of unused Velcro

Not only no, but #%?!$ no! I can definitely see the benefit of one battle uniform for those who are in country, but to dissolve the distinctions between the services is Ludacris! I never did agree with having sailors look like combat smurfs. If you were not in a combat situation in country, then keep your own distinctive service uniform. And for gods sake, let the Navy go back to dungarees.

Absolutely for the duty uniform, but I believe we should keep the dress uniforms their own.

When I first came in, Army/Marines/Air Force all wore woodland pattern BDU’s. It was easy to find uniforms since we all wore the same thing. Better for the taxpayer too instead of the cost of 5 different uniforms for 5 different branches.

I think we came very close to that in the 1950 and 60s recently I happen to be waiting for my spouse at the navel hospital and I counted 6 different variations of the Navy uniform in one hour, it would make since for all branches to have one for all ,just think of the money each branch would save

I can see this for a land based unit, but putting sailors in BDUs (especially underway) is rather narrow sighted. Dungarees and coveralls were serviceable and relatively inexpensive uniforms at sea, and it didn't break the bank when we had to throw out a half dozen pairs when you returned from deployment because you couldn't get the grease, fuel, paint, and sweat out of them.

For actual field service I agree But service on ship or areas not requiring cammo the service should be able to decide

I do not think they will ever go back. but the word was O D GREEN .

Combat uniform the same in all branches, reduce blue on blue.
Class A and B unique to branch.

When talking about formal uniforms (mess dress, service dress ect.) I say no way. Each service needs to be able to stand out in their own way.
When talking about a combat uniform i would agree with 1 uniform. The fact is each branch has spent a ridiculous amount of money on uniforms between development and testing. The army adopted the ACU only to move away from it due to its failure in the battlefield. The Air Force went with the ABU which was an even bigger failure (we were not even allowed to where them outside the wire in 2012) and the Navy went with those blueberry looking things that are completely useless for those guys on shore duty downrange. The Marines seem to be the only ones who got it right the first go of it. The other three are already changing (or have already changed) again. When you have personnel from different branches working together in a deployed environment they already have to be in the same uniform. This is just needless added cost and logistics. We don't want that JTAC or Medic to standout for a reason. When you're talking about a combat uniform keep it standard.