This thing is gawd awful. They tried to please everybody and have ended up with a cobbled together clown suit that looks like something for the Gay Caballero’s Marching Band Drill Team - except for the red silk sash.
Baseball caps, folks. Baseball caps.
It will go better with the baby blue U.N. helmets.
Horrible. When we switched from the khaki shirt to that puke-green one in the 80s that was bad enough, but blue? With a white shirt? That looks like some cheap security guard uniform. The Navy and Air Force can have blue. Army has not been blue since the Civil War, and we really should keep it that way.
That uniform is exactly like USAF military police circa 1972 from top to bottom, with the exception of missing the white-laced jump boots.
Reminds me vaguely of the mailman.
Gee, looks just like the Air Force uniform!
Yes, I would like fries and a coke with my burger...
UUUUUUGHH! Spare me! There was nothing wrong with the WW II Dark Green/?Brown belted coat with tan pants. Ike Jacket? Still got one!
Oh for the days of the brown shoe army, with the O D’s,the Ike Jacket, Pinks and Greens, and Campaign Hats.
UUUUUUGHH! Spare me! There was nothing wrong with the WW II Dark Greenish Brown? belted coat with tan pants. Ike Jacket? I still got one, it lasted this long!
OMG! The Damn Yakees are comin' back!
It’s got to part of an ongoing project called “What Can We Get the Dumb Soldiers To Put Up With”.
“Let’s see if we can get them to wear a hat that’s hot in the summer, cold in the winter, won’t keep the sun or rain out of their eyes, takes two hands to put on, and that 85% of them will look like rodeo clowns in!”
“Who’da thought they’d actually wear that? I know, let’s try a pajama suit covered with velcro in a wierd color that doesn’t blend in with anything except one rare bush at Ft Irwin. We can sell the velcro as a convenience and cost saver, even though patches constantly fall off and cost several times what the old patches cost, and they’ll be reminded of how much we care for their convenience when they have to transfer all the patches each time they put on a clean one. And as a bonus, we’ll make them wear pin-on badges that you can’t wear with a seat belt.”
“Oh my God, they put up with that. There’s nothing left except to dress them up like wanna-be third-class shopping mall security guards, and we’ll especially pick on the elite guys by making them blouse neon-blue pants with big gold stripes into their boots. They already proved they’ll put up with anything.”
“the Army, as a whole, is like a guy that just keeps punching himself in the b**** over and over for no reason.” (anonymous)
I liked this uniform best.
I'm just amazed that whatever cabal of generals responsible for this travesty has spare time on their hands inversely proportional to their degree of fashion sense. It's like they're up 24/7 thinking up goofy crap to pile on to the troops.
Whoever thought the "Combat Meter Maid" look was a good move should be fired. From a cannon. Preferably, into a brick wall.
It’s an Air Force uniform!