Posted on 08/24/2008 4:26:16 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
Not familiar with Army unifoms, but still posting?
Our blue uniforms are traditional, and have never had a linear break. They’re modified over the last century, but basically the same.
Again, it was the USMC that copied the Army with the blue uniform. Not that hard to look it up.
She brought me to attention!
A classic John Wayne western and a classic cast.
I’m happy to see them go back to blue for the Class A’s though the Greens were all I knew. The history was blue and I believe it stay that way.
The change in Army uniforms was an early example of political correctess. The uniform worn during World War II was actually quite different between officers and the other ranks (enlisted). Officers wore “pinks and greens”, a dark olive jacket and taupe trousers. Enlisted soldiers wore a ligher shade of olive for both blouse (jacket) and trousers that was more simply tailored and made of courser material. The Army Green uniform was introduced in 1955 to make the Army more “democratic”, reducing the differences between officer and enlisted uniforms. The basic green uniform was the same, with the addition of black braid on the cuffs and the trouser legs as the only distinction between officer and enlisted uniforms.
I think that most would argue today that they would have done better just to put enlisted soldiers into pinks and greens and be done with it.
Yep. Had that one, too. I, um, never heard it called that, though. I must’ve always been in “polite company,” LOL!
The thing I hated about the beret was the big old brass medallion you had to wear on it. It tarnished easily, and since it was a cut-out of an eagle and some other junk I don’t remember, it was a PITA to clean with Brasso. I mean, there was serious drinking to do on the weekends...and there I was, in the barracks, polishing that stupid thing with a q-tip because the three hundred thousand cut EDGES on that medallion needed to shine, too!
Really, really stupid. Plus, the medallion glinted in the sunlight to the point where you could blind a person, and it made it very easy for a sniper to take a head-shot, LOL!
It’s that the same as a “piss-cutter”?
Ouch, Ouch, Oh NO! You got me!!
WHY? To make it harder to see someone in a man-overboard situation? Blue cammies, the color of a ship's wake, is the absolute worst possible color for a Navy seaman.
The Army should revert to olive drab/khaki Ike jackets (or 4-pocket tunics), garrison caps and peaked caps. The Army Green, Blue and especially the beret caps are un-militarily looking.
The Airforce should adopt blue 4-pocket tunics with open collar and shirt&tie. The current Airforce jacket is a joke, and the suggestion of a stand-collar tunic looks too authoritarian.
The horrible Airforce "leisure" jacket
Good suggestion for Airforce (accepted by the Airforce, thank God!):
Bad suggestion for Airforce (rejected):
The style the US Army should return to:
They look like the Canadian Mounties, only in grey! Do thet ride horses?
You're 100% right about that. If you think about it, blaze orange makes the most sense, for obvious reasons...
If looking like Mitchell (who was court martialed and forced out of the service for publicly saying that the Secretaries of War and the Navy had blood on their hands following the Shenandoah crash) was their reasoning, then they might as well just adopt the U.S. Army's uniform.
They look like the SS!
huh?
Piss Cutters are the standard Dress Cover, the Garrison Cover is the one that looks like a broad brimmed cover that the Commandant wears
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