FlyingYankee
Active Member
Re: Document explaining why USAF now only uses Sage CWU jack
Agree with all said
Why does the Air Force need Camo at all unless they are in Combat arms. The old greens were perfect
Navy is all Camo also. Why camo on a ship, The old blue jeans for sailors looked pretty good I thought.
The Uniform mess should be straightened out by the time I retire
+1 Yankee. Welcome home!
The new "tradition" seems to involve general officers playing at being fashion designers (all branches). Somehow we've gone from everyone in one-piece bags and BDU's to the current mess.
Each service carries the shame of their would-be, fashion-designer generals.
US Army: two-piece woodland ABU and nomex M-65 field jacket; berets for all (for the inner Rambo in all soldiers), and the universal camo pattern -- universally despised by those that wear it.
USAF: McPeak-era butchering of the service dress uniform, skinny-jean version of the flightsuit, and tiger stripe ABU, stillborn ABS-G, and the A2CU clone known as the Tactical Flight Duty Uniform (A2CU in tiger stripe).
USN: lame hijack of the USMC service uniform (substituting black trousers) and utility uniforms (NWU Berry-flage)
USMC: can't complain too much as they haven't messed with their uniforms too much. However, their impatience with the development of the then-service-wide camo studies (giving us UCP) and led them to develop their own version of CADPAT and make it proprietary. This started the ball rolling which gave us the mess we have today.[/quote]
Agree with all said
Why does the Air Force need Camo at all unless they are in Combat arms. The old greens were perfect
Navy is all Camo also. Why camo on a ship, The old blue jeans for sailors looked pretty good I thought.
The Uniform mess should be straightened out by the time I retire
FtrPlt said:
+1 Yankee. Welcome home!
The new "tradition" seems to involve general officers playing at being fashion designers (all branches). Somehow we've gone from everyone in one-piece bags and BDU's to the current mess.
Each service carries the shame of their would-be, fashion-designer generals.
US Army: two-piece woodland ABU and nomex M-65 field jacket; berets for all (for the inner Rambo in all soldiers), and the universal camo pattern -- universally despised by those that wear it.
USAF: McPeak-era butchering of the service dress uniform, skinny-jean version of the flightsuit, and tiger stripe ABU, stillborn ABS-G, and the A2CU clone known as the Tactical Flight Duty Uniform (A2CU in tiger stripe).
USN: lame hijack of the USMC service uniform (substituting black trousers) and utility uniforms (NWU Berry-flage)
USMC: can't complain too much as they haven't messed with their uniforms too much. However, their impatience with the development of the then-service-wide camo studies (giving us UCP) and led them to develop their own version of CADPAT and make it proprietary. This started the ball rolling which gave us the mess we have today.[/quote]
