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USMC Wannabe Blues (Army: Greens out, Blues in)
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Posted on 08/24/2008 4:26:16 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
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To: SoCalPol
Researching some of my 5th great grandfathers who were in the Rev War, their coats were Blue & Buff. Which would indicate to my that he was not in the artillery as depicted in that image.
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posted on
08/24/2008 4:56:47 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(A History and Science Minute.- "Climate change" has been going on for millions of years!)
To: Ronin
Leave the damn uniforms alone! Hey, someone would've posted it sooner or later
To: big'ol_freeper
That is too traditional to remove Its not much of a tradition. Prior to the late 1920's, the stripe was the branch color: red for artillery, white for infantry, yellow for cavalry, etc. Enlisted soldiers did not wear a stripe, rather they had piping of about 1/8th inch in the branch color. The gold stripe is a 20th century embellishment for officer's formal wear.
To: xsrdx
FOLIAGE GREEN pixelated Advanced Combat Uniform.Natch, ACU is indeed "Army" Combat Uniform, presently...
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posted on
08/24/2008 4:58:28 PM PDT
by
xsrdx
(Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
To: Dawnsblood
Uhh, that doesn’t make it a “USMC Wannabe” uniform. It means the Army is returning to it’s traditions. Army uniforms were always previously blue. In the War of Independence, 1812, the Civil War, the Plains Indians Wars... all of those were blue uniforms. We didn’t change that until the last years of the 19th century and the Khaki uniforms.
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posted on
08/24/2008 4:58:29 PM PDT
by
DesScorp
To: BenLurkin
God, that uniform looks like crap!
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posted on
08/24/2008 4:59:50 PM PDT
by
ops33
(Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
To: BenLurkin
"What ever became of teh Air Force plan to emulate the USMC dress uniform with a Black and Silver color combo?"
What USAF should have done is adopt the blue Billy Mitchells they were looking at for distinctive dress, and return to the plain, clean OD utilities and khaki 1505 office dress that they looked so good in.
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posted on
08/24/2008 5:01:33 PM PDT
by
DesScorp
To: BenLurkin
The USAF dress uniforms look like something from WW I.
On the other hand, the Army Dress Blues look sharp with a dress belt and the gold and silver belt buckle. The dress blue look goes back to the Civil War era. Sorta like the Union cavalry colors.
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posted on
08/24/2008 5:02:36 PM PDT
by
Bringbackthedraft
(If everyone stays home and no one votes will Congress disappear?)
To: centurion316
Um no. I said it won’t go away because it is related to the Civil War uniform and that the only change I would see is that they might go to multiple colors depending on branch of the Army. Last time I checked the Civil War was before 1920.
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posted on
08/24/2008 5:04:25 PM PDT
by
big'ol_freeper
(A vote for third party is a vote for nObama)
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To: SoCalPol
Dont’ get yer panties in a bundle.
Plenty of threads have The Army suffering under USMC abuse.
Anybody who’s served knows about inter-service rivalry and the (generally) good-natured ribbing.
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posted on
08/24/2008 5:07:08 PM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: txroadkill; SoCalPol
Take a chill, its a song (made famous by the movie To Hell and Back (Bio-pic about Audie Murphy)).3rd Division Song
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posted on
08/24/2008 5:07:16 PM PDT
by
Polybius
To: Dawnsblood
Nothing copycat about the US Army having a blue uniform. William Tecumseh wasn't trying to be any Marine.
Nor was Old Hickory.
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posted on
08/24/2008 5:08:03 PM PDT
by
Plutarch
To: SoCalPol
Oh, and it was the Army 3rd ID that rolled into Baghdad first. That was NEVER in question.
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posted on
08/24/2008 5:08:05 PM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: big'ol_freeper
That would be the pickle suit.I hated it.
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posted on
08/24/2008 5:08:58 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
To: xsrdx
“Army Blue as a uniform color traces its origins back to the National Blue and was first worn by Soldiers in the Continental Army of 1779. “
And didn’t the Marines wear GREEN around that same time?
To: centurion316
The Army has already posted the pics and the new uniform is an unmitigated DISASTER.
They kept the standard white shirt and slapped a bunch for ribbons, badges and devices to it, like the green class A/B shirts. It really looks likes like hell.
The dress blue jacket will not have tons of extra crap sewn/pinned over it, ruining it for evening/formal wear.
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posted on
08/24/2008 5:11:21 PM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: Ronin
Leave the damn uniforms alone! They're fine. Stop wasting money and time forcing these stupid changes on the Soldiers Sailors Airmen and Marines! As one who had to wear the Navy {Airline Pilot} dress blues of the mid 1970's I agree. They were used to replace the Crackerjack uniform sometime in the early to mid 70's so I'm told. Maybe one of Rummy's bad ideas as he messed with the Navy working uniforms last time as Sec of Def too. There was no place to stow them on ship and they were very high maintenance. The suit type blues were also discovered to be a hazard when working near LOX.
The thanks goes to SECNAV Hildigo allowing tradition to be restored in late 1979. The Crackerjacks returned to us as dress Uniform of the Day and in 80's I had to buy them for seabag inspection to muster out. A much more functional and recognized uniform though. No one was unhappy about that change either. You could board a plane and not be asked when we were taking off. LOL..
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posted on
08/24/2008 5:11:49 PM PDT
by
cva66snipe
($.01 The current difference between the DEM's and GOP as well as their combined worth to this nation)
To: martin_fierro
"That Slick Willie move requiring the Army to wear black berets ... what was that about??" Umm, that was done during Bush. It was purely a recruiting move... letting any grunt look stylish and cool in headgear that you used to have to graduate from elite training to get. Now any dogface slicing hams or changing tires wears the same headgear Rangers and Vietnam-era Navy spec ops boat crews had to earn.
And now other services are doing ridiculous things like this. My own service, the Navy, is now switching from dungarees to cammies for all sailors. Worse, cammies in a blue pattern. The Navy admits that the camoflauge is useless... they just bought it because they think it looks good. I think it makes sailors look like mail-order Rambos on the paintball range. Why not just go with the Coast Guards plain navy-blue BDU's, the ODU?
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posted on
08/24/2008 5:12:52 PM PDT
by
DesScorp
To: big'ol_freeper
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posted on
08/24/2008 5:13:52 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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