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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2ndLt Ground Intelligence Officer
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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
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CPO Paul Smith
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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.
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SGT Michael Herdt
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Absolutely for the duty uniform, but I believe we should keep the dress uniforms their own.
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CW2 Vessel Support Officer
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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.
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SSG Karl Fowler
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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
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PO1 David Albert
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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.
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COL Brenson Bishop
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For actual field service I agree But service on ship or areas not requiring cammo the service should be able to decide
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SGT David Petree
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I do not think they will ever go back. but the word was O D GREEN .
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SFC William Ewing
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Combat uniform the same in all branches, reduce blue on blue.
Class A and B unique to branch.
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MSgt Dan Calhoun
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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.
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COL Frank Siltman
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Ha, you mean like in 1982 when we adopted BDUs for all the services as a land component field uniform?
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PO3 Al Fan
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We all wore same uniforms in NAM. I think it would be a great idea at all times. Service branch over pocket and rank unit on sleeve. Like SSG Grandy says, "One country, One uniform".
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MAJ James Rip
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Yes, we had that at one time. It was cheaper and easier.
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We all wore the same uniform for my first 13 years and then things just got stupid and wasteful. Tiger stripes for AF?? Yes, the Marines are to blame as they rolled out the digital camo in 2001 for testing. Sadly, you have a whole generation who can’t remember when we all wore the same tactical uniform.
PV2 Wayne Grinnell
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I think since all the branches are different you need to be able to distinguish between each branch.... besides it promotes esprit de corp.
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MSgt Brenda Policy
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I thoroughly agree. Maybe this way they don't have to change to a new look at what seems to be every couple of years. I went through 4 uniform changed when I was in.
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CPL Trey Sivaad
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No. WTH....
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CW4 Jj Lacasse
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Doesn't the Canadian Armed Forces have that?
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Capt Daniel Goodman
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I'd seen another thread on this here, though that one dealt with rank insignia...please understand, this is obv purely my own thought process, however, aside from multicams, as you'd mentioned, there are pretty well always gonna be uniform differences, it's never gonna be wholly standardized, though, as your photos showed, what you tried to depict is most likely as close as that sort of standardization would prob ever got, I should think...as I'd said, those are obv just purely my own thoughts, of course....
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SFC Robert Walton
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Edited 6 y ago
Dress uniform no. Combat uniform Maybe, with service specific rank and branch tapes as in US ARMY, US NAVY,. Dual Service assignment yes. Now i have to ask are we going to paint all the planes, and ships, anfibs to match or what?
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