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Posted on 08/24/2008 4:26:16 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
If it was a suit & jacket type with an officers type cover rather than the dixie cup yea that's the beast. Era early to mid 1970's and gone Navy wide by mid 1980 thank goodness.
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So, the USMC doesn’t teach the history of its uniforms origins?
Other away around, my friend.
Other way around.
The stripe will stay for officers (double stripe for generals), as it makes knowing when to salute (and when to behave) so much easier. Its been on the greens all along and I think most who wear the ACUs agree that it is annoying to not be able to identify an officer from afar to pay proper respects.
No, I just saw a guy wearing one at the Meridian airport (near NAS Meridian) about two years ago.
I didn’t see the cover, but it was a really sharp looking uniform.
Why they didn’t make either you or me Chief of Staff of the Army is beyond my understanding.
>>, the USMC doesn’t teach the history of its uniforms origins?
Other away around, my friend.
Other way around.<<
I well remember the USMC history classes at Parris Island. The article clearly states that it was the soldiers who had “uniform envy” of Marine Dress Blues.
I stand by my comments. FWIW, both Army and Marines have worn blue uniforms since The War Between the States. Only the Army chose to go all green.
Lighten up. There has always been cross services ribbin. I guarantee all of your relatives who have served, those who rolled into Baghdad, Battled at Chosin all have heard the same stuff, it is normal.
I agree.
https://www.peosoldier.army.mil/factsheets/SEQ_CIE_ASU.pdf
This is a good page, but I think the gray shirt for daily wear has been nixed.
Bringing back the gold vest would also be nice.
As they say, “There’s history and then there’s USMC history.”
USMC uniforms began as cobbled uniforms taken from US Army uniforms. Look at the pants, as it’s obvious to anyone not parroting what they heard in boot.
And, FWIW, the Army had khaki class A/b uniforms and blue dress uniforms. I don’t know where you heard it, but the Army never went “all green”. We ditched the khakis for green and kept the blue dress uniforms. Now, they’re ditching the green so they can use the blue dress uniform in place of both.
It’s a bad decision, but the facts are nothing close to what you’re posting.
Goodbye Crest Toothpaste green shirts! Halleluja!
What I have seen of Marines, they make anything look good !!!!!!
Yep.
And a ton of REMFs tried really hard to edge combat soldiers out of their combat jump.
Now, the Ranger assault on that airfield was a true combat jump.
My first assignment with the Army was Hawaii.
I bought dress whites instead of the blues. Dress whites were acceptable in the tropics.
I looked like an ice cream salesman.
I still have them and half of me would now fit in them.
OUT damned pickle suit... Nobody liked that that piece of polyester shite. That was one piece I never wanted to be seen in. Looked like I was a bus driver, or sellin used cars.
Its not a gold vest, its a buff waistcoat. Buff, the color of untanned leather, is today known as tan or khaki. Its the current branch color of the Quartermaster Corps, but in the American Revolution was used as the facing color for a number of regiments and from 1779 as the color of the command and staff of the Continental Army, hence the appearance of George Washington is this costume.
I’ll have my retirement in Greens. The Blues look like a cross between the Shriners uniform and the Fire Department Dress. In my opinion, we never should have modified the khaki uniform or gotten rid of it. I’ll be glad to leave the velcro army behind, at least the uniform BS aspect of it.
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