{"id":23854,"date":"2011-06-12T08:37:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T12:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23854"},"modified":"2011-06-12T08:49:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T12:49:57","slug":"army-gets-smart-on-acus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23854","title":{"rendered":"Army gets smart on ACUs"},"content":{"rendered":"

ROS, who remembers me from the battle we waged against Shinseki and his black beret more than ten years ago, sends a link from the Army Times<\/a> which demonstrates that the Army is finally being smart about the beret, among other things. It seems the latest changes are a result of the new Sergeant Major of the Army, Raymond F. Chandler III<\/a>, a leg tanker.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it seems that SMA Chandler wants the standard headgear for the ACU uniform to be the patrol cap. Fricken Duh!<\/p>\n

“The Soldiers didn’t like the fact that the beret was hot — it was not something that they wore the majority of the time,” he said. “And they didn’t like the fact it didn’t shade the sun and it took two hands to put on. And they didn’t like to carry two pieces of headgear to do different functions during the day.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The change in the beret policy will save the Army about $6.5 million over the lifecycle of the ACU. New Soldiers had been issued two berets, now they will be issued one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another change would allow soldiers to sew on their name tags instead of attaching them with velcro. That never made sense tome anyway. Are you going to change your uniforms with someone else? Why would you need to change the name tags? Granted, you may have the opportunity to remove the name tags for certain operations, but how often? So often that having velcro would make it advantageous somehow?<\/p>\n

Who would have thought that we’d get a sergeant major with some common sense. It’s particularly satisfying that he’s a tanker, like Shinseki, who I’m convinced brought the black beret in retaliation for the bar fights over the tankers’ black berets we had at Sheridan Kaserne, Augsburg, where Shinseki was stationed when 1\/75th were there for REFORGER ’75. Four years later the Army Chief of Staff took away the tankers’ black beret (and the airborne’s maroon beret).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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