Posted on Aug 2, 2018
Christie Blatchford: Defence chief wants to toss Canadian-made uniforms for U.S. version — at a...
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It is kind of ironic how the Marine Corps got the license to use the Canadian digital camouflage back in the late 1990s. The US Army decided to come out with the ACU which was really stupid back in July, 2004. It looks like the Army finally did it right because now the Canadians want to use our multicam pattern. 500 million Canadian dollars will buy you a quite a few leopard tanks or take care of a lot of other issues within the Canadian military. Too bad they couldn't keep what they have already. At least they didn't make the mistake getting something similar to the ACU uniform Fiasco. I am still upset at the Army making us all have to get rid of our desert camouflage boots and by the Coyote Brown Boots, something which I think is very odd, starting in October of 2019. Talk about a waste of money. How many of you have about three or four pairs of desert desert camouflage boots at home?
Christie Blatchford: Defence chief wants to toss Canadian-made uniforms for U.S. version — at a...
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I remember reading an article back in the day of why the Army didn’t choose the MARPAT uniform. Their excuse for creating their own pattern instead of using MARPAT was that the USMC uniform contained black in its color spectrum. According to the article, the color black does not occur naturally in nature. In other words it’s a man made color. So the Army has to create its own pattern that did not contain black.
I know it sounds crazy, but that’s what I read.
I know it sounds crazy, but that’s what I read.
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LTC Stephen Conway
Thank you, for your recollection. I think it is crazy that we have to get rid of the desert tan Boot and go for a darker Hue coyote brown boots. Someone's making money on this one!
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SGM Steve Wettstein
SMSgt Thor Merich What I have read is that the USMC has something like or has a trade mark on MARPAT and wouldn't let the Army use it.
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Sometimes you've gotta realize the Saving on uniforms you had as a Soldier vs Navy, Marines and even Air Force just gets spent buying new "field" uniforms. Since the 1980s the Army went thru two shades of the green dress uniform, khakis then blues with suspended and with belt loops on the dress uniform side. Possibly pinks and greens again still in development. Now on the field side fatigues; cotton and permanent press, jungle fatigues; slanted pockets straight pockets, Cami's, woodland BDU; wide collar, regular collar, light weight, with button flaps on waist and then back off, don't forget Urban BDU like Berlin BDE, dessert "chocolate chip" then DCU (wide collar, regular collar), ACU; regular and fire retardant, and now multi cam. That's a helluva lot of uniforms over just a 30 year time frame. Definitely folks getting rich off of it all!
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LTC Stephen Conway
Yes, sir, and going to the Coyote Boots is part of the ongoing military industrial complex. That pisses me off the most! Cuz I have perfectly good boots I have probably 500 to $600 worth of boots that I will have to get rid of to buy a piece of junk coyote brown boots that started $140 and go up. I wish president Trump or secretary Mattis would change that rule and let us keep our tan boot.
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LTC John Mohor
Now if you can delay a bit check out the DRMO sales at Basic Training post Bayonet at Benning Leader at Ft Jackie newspapers you can check out the sale of used uniform sales Badic Trainees that washed out and get a good deal on used uniforms to include boots! That's how I kept my ACU costs down to bare bones!
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