Posted on Sep 19, 2014
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I've been sewing on my uniform tapes since it's been authorized. If you take a look around and it seems, in my opinion, most Soldier's are already going back to sewing on the tapes and badge qualifications. I believe it looks more professional and I don't have to stick/restick in badges or blacken them when the gold starts showing. The Army switched to hook-and-loop fasteners (referred to as Velcro from here on) to save the Soldier money and ease the transferring of items from one uniform to the other. When you were told you could sew on the tapes and badges. What did you do? Did you hop on board or wait until you had a general consensus of what everyone else was going to do?

Now we, as an Army, have the opportunity to fix where the ACU went HORRIBLY wrong. Although, SMA Chandler said the uniform styling cues weren't changing but aren't we passed the "let's throw some Velcro back on the new uniform so we can go ahead and sew over it again". Leave the stitch marks for where it needs to be (name tapes and rank) and let's go ahead and sew on our American Flag, that's not changing, and our combat patch, that rarely changes, and our unit patch, changes every few years. Last time I checked we took pride in our uniforms, or used to, and let's pay the 40 bucks to get all the hoopla sewn on and call it a day. I won't even get started on the Velcro pockets on this thread, which as you know, have been slowly disappearing as they update the ACU every so often. What say you?
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CPT Jacob Swartout
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I never did agree with the hook-and-loop fastener concept on uniforms. Yes, velcro to many of us is annoying. For one, it gets worn out and makes that irritating noise when taking off patches and name tapes. I have all my ACUs with sewn on name tapes/rank/badges. The BDUs looked better because you had everything sewn on. One thing I can't stand is when someone has their name tapes curled up and almost falling off their ACU top. I hope the changes go back to having everything sewn on.
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Sir,

If I could thumbs up your message a hundred times I would. I miss BDUs.
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CPT Jacob Swartout
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SFC (Join to see) BDUs were great and Soldiers loved them.
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Definitely, go zipper style like the A2CUs.
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SFC Mark Merino
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Until uniforms start being designed by those that play in the dirt for a living.........
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SrA Matthew Knight
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Being in the Air Force the only things I have velcro on are my back pack and my fleece. For the sake of the Army I hope ya'll go away from velcro though. It's obnoxiously loud which I can't imagine is a plus in combat. Buttoned pockets stay closed far better. And then the biggest thing is sewn names/rank look better and last far longer than velcro which starts to wear out fairly quick, especially I would imagine if worn on a daily basis as your ACUs are.

Over all, sewn names and rank and buttoned pockets are much better. I could see the shoulder patches remaining velcro but that's about it.
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