[Redcitizen]

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.

[blueunicorn6]

I believe that they’ll find that it “may” be worn as an outer garment, not that it “will”.

[AndyJackson]

I served for a while at a NATO HQs. When it rained the other nationals on station walked around with umbrellas. Our senior flag reminded the Americans that we should not sport umbrealla. So the Brits chided me and said that us Yanks didn't have the sense to come in out of the rain.

At the end of my tour on the boats, they finally started authorizing the use of what were originall coast guard exposure suits for watchstanders on the bridge during winter surface runs in the North Atlantic [subs take a lot of green water over the sail in rough weather on the surface so it is very cold and very wet.]

I have always been amazed that making sure that military forces are attired to maximize their military effectiveness is not a top consideration for commanders. It was a hard lesson to learn.