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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.

I'm sorry to inform everybody that I don't care what they wore in the Civil War, what Jimmy Carter did, how the Air Force wants to become a military outfit, where the heck we got our "dress blues", who rolled into where first in the Iraqi cesspool, or even if Bill Clinton got the idea of a black beret from his female humidor...

Marine Corps dress blues look AWESOME!... Chicks dig them, men are envious and you can cut them off and they still look great!!!

Most Army guys I know love the Army. Most Navy squids I know, love the Navy. Most Air Force guys I know love golf and air conditioners.... and Most jarheads know that it's not our uniform but our brothers that make us Marines.

..... and for those that think I don't respect the other services, you're wrong. There is nothing like that rumble and crunching of an Abrams right before it lets loose with a round or two to make some doors on the bottom floor of a building, thank you Army... or the zip and bwaaaaahmmmmmmpphhhh and feel your chest feel like it was hit by a sack of flour as your ears ring and the Air Force or Navy Air put a little 500 lb lump of death in a house that's been busting your b@lls for an hour or so.

With the current combined operations we all are on the same team...

My dad saw a Marine in dress blues when he was 11 years old and told grandma, "that's what I'm gonna be when I grow up." 6 years later she signed his papers so he could join up right out of highschool.... When I showed up in my dress blues, you'd of thought the man was in heaven.

There's something to be said about tradition. I think the Army should do what it wants, but there is NO WAY that the Army wants to imitate the Marines. I think the writer just wants to stir up trouble.