{"id":23816,"date":"2011-06-09T12:08:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T16:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23816"},"modified":"2011-06-09T13:27:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T17:27:44","slug":"army-and-marines-clash-over-marpat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23816","title":{"rendered":"Army and Marines clash over MARPAT"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Army Times<\/a> reports that the Army wants to change their duty uniforms again, so they’re looking at different patterns, three of them, including the Marines’ MARPAT design. So suddenly, the Marines, who by the way, borrowed the Army’s BDUs a few decades back are getting territorial about it with their Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Carlton Kent<\/a> pissing everywhere to mark his “proprietary” design;<\/p>\n

The Corps owns the rights to MARPAT and wants to retain it for its own use, Kent said late last year. Marine officials said they have no beef with anyone researching and testing MARPAT, but they want Marines distinguished from other service members on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main concern for the Marine Corps when it comes to other services testing our patterns is that they don\u2019t exactly mimic them,\u201d said Kent, who is scheduled to retire June 9. \u201cThe MARPAT design is proprietary, and it\u2019s important those designs are reserved for Marines. We just need to make sure each of our designs is unique to each service.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s just petty. The best thing about being out of the Army, is that I get to tell sergeant majors (it’s not “sergeants major” by the way – some uber-pseudo-intellectual dink at the Sergeant Major Academy made that shit up) what I really think of them. SGM Kent; the DoD is cutting your troops medical care while they’re on active duty and they’re going to screw you out of yours when you retire next month…don’t you think it’s important for you to pick your battles?<\/p>\n

Arguing over fashion decisions doesn’t serve your Marines well. If you were really that concerned about the uniforms, you would have spoke up during the BDU era about Marines rolling up their sleeves backwards so they all had white arm bands on both arms.<\/p>\n

To quote COB6 who sent us the link; ” So aside from a couple of sniper rifles and useless landing craft, you can turn in every piece of equipment in the Marine Corps that was designed, tested and fielded by the US Army! Thank you for your service douche-bag, now retire.”<\/p>\n

Operator Dan adds: <\/strong>Funny, I never saw Sgt Major Kent speak out about Iraqi soldiers and police officers wearing MARPAT:<\/p>\n

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In fact according to the Marine Corps Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Marine officials don\u2019t seem overly concerned about the situation<\/strong>. The MarPat design is patented by the Corps and has not been licensed for use by anyone except Marines, said Capt. Geraldine Carey, a spokeswoman for Marine Corps Systems Command.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I would be more concerned about shady IPs wearing MARPAT than soldiers. But then again, this is the same Sgt Major who spent much of the last year spending a great deal of time fretting over a silly Facebook group started by former Marines called F’N Boot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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