Posted on 11/01/2022 6:07:13 PM PDT by Redcitizen
A battalion commander is forbidding soldiers under his command from wearing their Army-issued fleece jackets while on a rotation in South Korea, where local average temperatures during the winter frequently dip below freezing.
"The fleece cold weather jacket is not authorized for wear as an outer garment," Lt. Col. Geoffrey Lynch, commander of 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division, said in an August memo reviewed by Military.com.
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No fleece for you!
6 months!
Yeah so is this armchair commander
“As an outer garment”
Taking orders from a micro-fascist JA may not be in the best interests of The Nation.
So wear other stuff under. Or have a family member write their congressman. Get a dozen parents to do that and I bet that jackass gets overruled real fast.
A top Army official overseeing uniform rules squashed any of that confusion back in January.
“It’s an outer garment,” Sgt. Maj. Ashleigh Sykes, the top enlisted leader for uniform policy said on Twitter in January. “There is hook and loop for name tapes, rank, and US Army to make that obvious.”
Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston, the service’s top enlisted leader, endorsed the message. “That settles that,” he tweeted.
Military life is full of examples when someone’s ego overrules logic. The short time I was in the Navy, I saw it in most every department. One department (supply) may even sabotage another department (engineering) to prove some sort of point.
Lt. Col. Geoffrey Lynch has forgotten about the Chosin reservior
Temperature dropped from mid 50's to upper 30's in the space of a couple hours, with rain and win. That night, out of a company with 221 student Lieutenants, 26 were evacuated with hypothermia.
Utter dumbass.
The fleeces are nice and warm, but wind cuts right through them. Better than nothing, though.
I believe that they’ll find that it “may” be worn as an outer garment, not that it “will”.
I saw a Sergeant make a private wear his Kevlar helmet while the Seargent was only wearing his T-shirt, no hat. It was a hot day in Saudi and we were all hanging out but this guy wanted to be an ass.
I knew an officer in Vietnam War who did two tours enlisted before he was commissioned. He refused to allow his troops to take ponchos to the field. He believed that warm, dry soldiers were the first to die in a firefight. I read a letter he got after he returned. The troops thanked him for keeping them alive.
I bet the company commander went on to be promoted.
“Lt. Col. Geoffrey Lynch has forgotten about the Chosin reservior”
I don’t think the fleece jacket would be worn as an outer garment under those conditions.
What is he trying to simulate Europe’s conditions this winter?
When I was in the Marines, you were not able to wear the wool sweater (wooly pully) until DST (Daylight Savings Time) was over. No matter what the weather conditions were. Once the Daylight Savings time commenced again in April, the sweaters went back to the closet.
He was promoted quickly, I presume. One of the joint chiefs by now!
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