“I’ll have to support Gates on this one.”
I agree with you.
My son is a Naval Academy grad and now an officer of Marines. My daughter is an Army officer. I have been struck that Navy and Marine personnel in general are only authorized to wear fatigues in garrison or aboard ship. Otherwise, they are in professional-appearing service dress. And, official events (graduations, winging, etc) are almost always in dress uniforms.
The Army, on the other hand, seems to do everything in BDU’s, and I think, inappropriately so.
A good example is that, a few years back, the Military Channel did a big show on the day of the Army-Navy game. During the pre-game, the Superintendant of the Naval Academy and a senior USMC officer were being interviewed; the interviewers were in jacket and tie and the military officers were in service dress. When it came time for the Supe of West Point to be interviewed, he was in BDU’s, and looked ridiculous.
If it were up to me, the Army would go back to the WWII era tobacco brown/khaki service uniforms: they had real class.
Just my $0.02
>>>If it were up to me, the Army would go back to the WWII era tobacco brown/khaki service uniforms: they had real class
I agree the officers cut looks good in those old movies but the enlisted men’s cut looks like a potato sack with legs and sleeves.