Air Force to switch to Army camo, ditch tiger stripes beginning in October

SPC Daniel Bowen The only other change, uniform-wise, I'd like to see, is to make the Dress Uniform look a little more impressive. Right now, we just look like we're wearing business suits w/ pins. Granted, the Air Force is pretty much run like a corporation right now, so maybe it's fitting?

MSgt Gerald Orvis Perhaps this is one way to kick back into the whole, "We're still part of the military" mindset that has been lacking in a vast majority of Big Blue for several years now? I know CSAF & CMSAF are trying REALLY hard to correct course, but it's a hell of a long, uphill battle.

GySgt John Olson - I wouldn't mind it. Better than the business suits we wear now.

SMSgt Lawrence McCarter I was thinking along the same lines, sir. Why the heck are we ALL wearing different patterns. That's A LOT of money to be dishing out, for no real purpose. Perhaps go back to what we had? A version of woodland (because that is what the majority of what CONUS is) and then have specific issue for deployments that are outside of woodland?

SSgt (Join to see) - My thinking also woodland for all of us and for deployments in areas with different terrain camo for that specific environment only which is the way it used to be done. There are also so many joint deployments with other services except for insignia should We all resemble each other in a combat environment when working together on the same operations ? Never have I ever seen these changes and large expenditures of money to keep changing things like this as seems to be the current practice. On current camo uniforms it looks like at least the Marines figured out what colors appear in nature, seem anyone with normal vision could figure that out. Are all those changes fraud, waste and abuse ?

SMSgt Lawrence McCarter - It comes across as some senior member wanted to push something forward in order to make a resume bullet for themselves to get that Bird or Star.

SSgt (Join to see) - A good example of that was General McPeak, as USAF Chief of Staff, He made changes no one else made to inflate His own ego before He retired. uniform changes, no one else wanted but Him, change AFR, Air Force Regulations to AFI, Air Force Instructions, just to name a few that served no purpose but cost millions of dollars. He even said He was doing that so people would remember Him, well We do but not they way He may have liked.