"Army blue" is okay, since blue has a long and honorable history. It would have been nice to have the leg stripe in the Branch's color, though.
Let's not forget the new Navy and Air Force uniforms, though.
Posted on 08/24/2008 4:26:16 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
"Army blue" is okay, since blue has a long and honorable history. It would have been nice to have the leg stripe in the Branch's color, though.
Let's not forget the new Navy and Air Force uniforms, though.
I could live with that! I always liked my dress blues better than the Class A greens though. Of course, being in the cavalry (Attack Helicopters) myself, we were allowed to wear the old cavalry hats that always looked pretty good with the dress blue uniform.
Officers already wear shoulder boards (with rank) that denote the branch. No need to change.
Besides, the USMC has adopted the Army dress blues concept, so the red strip (artillery) is already in use.
They can thank us for it later.
There was no gold stipe in the Civil War, or before 1930, except for General Officer uniforms. The color of the stripe was determined by your branch of service. The Marine Corps wear a red stipe. Why is this? Because they mimiced Army uniforms and the Marine Corps “branch” color was red.
I sadly suspect that you are right, though I haven’t found the source. A uniform designed by a committee, and modified by focus groups. Can’t defend it, only hope that cooler heads someday prevail.
Pardon me, but please to observe: women wear pants. Men wear trou.
Anyway, no one’s mentioned the short dress blue mess jacket, worn with cummerbund, high rise trou, and mini medals. It’s still around as far as I know.
It's like the Beret fiasco. It's corporate welfare from politicians to make sure friends get all those not needed servicemember wide lucrative contracts. We're talking about major bucks here each time a change is ordered.
The Navy uniform change from the crackerjack in the 1970's was a major disaster and even Carter's people knew as much and did something about it late 79 early 80. Can you remember when the Navy Blues went from Crackerjack to suit? I know when it went back but at bootcamp late 76 I was issued to suit dress blues.
I HATE the new Navy cammies. The dungarees looked much nicer (and neater).
Same tune as “Love Me Tender”
Great song.
Yep.
“Dress Mess”.
I’m short (5’6”), so the dress mess looks better on my frame.
The USMC also has a version (of course, taken from The Army).
We really set the uniform standards, but we just didn’t keep them :\
The one uniform that the Navy reall has is the black one.
What is that unform?
The pentagon switched to the battle uniform (now ACUs for the Army) due to the current war. Class B is the normal pentagon uniform, which was the Green Class A without the coat and tie.
The Green Class A was a silly replacement for the brown WWII uniform with the khaki shirts and ties. THat was a classy uniform. Why they do’t go back to that is beyond me.
I’ll be buried in my Dress Greens and jump boots!
IIRC, The Army retired the khaki uniforms because they ended up as surplus after the bigger wars. People started wearing the jackets (and the accoutrements) on the streets, so The Army decided to switch to something not available on the street.
Big mistake.
It is the song for the 3d Infantry Division. The Audi Murphy division. Song came out of WWII.
The funny part about this whole thing is that as any Marine will proudly admit we got our blues because the Army decided they were obsolete and donated them to the Marines during the war with Mexico (The Halls of Montezuma).
Anyway it was because of that war that the Marines have worn them ever since. Our Dress Blues were once a Battle Uniform.
Dressing a soldier like a Marine doesn’t make him one. I still have my Marine dress blues - I earned them.
Semper fi, do or die.
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