{"id":29585,"date":"2012-04-19T12:19:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T16:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29585"},"modified":"2012-04-19T12:19:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T16:19:41","slug":"army-vs-usmc-marpat-battle-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29585","title":{"rendered":"Army vs. USMC MARPAT battle ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23816\">Last year we had a rather furious battle<\/a> here when the Army made overtures to the USMC about borrowing their MARPAT (Marine pattern) uniform design. Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/06\/07\/army-backs-off-talk-using-marine-camouflage-pattern\/?intcmp=obinsite\">jerry920 sends us a link from Fox News<\/a> that says that the Army s backing off from that particular battle;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brig. Gen. Peter Fuller, former head of Program Executive Office Soldier which is responsible for military gear, earlier told the Army Times that the Army could remove the Corps&#8217; emblem and appropriate the uniform for Army use if it proves most effective in field tests. That&#8217;s something the Marines don&#8217;t want to see happen, claiming the uniform is their property and that Marines should be distinguished from other soldiers. <\/p>\n<p>But a spokeswoman in Fuller&#8217;s department told FoxNews.com that MARPAT is &#8220;not a leading choice for the Army&#8217;s next combat uniform.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MARPAT is not technically competing in the Army&#8217;s camouflage efforts at all; it is being used as a benchmark pattern&#8221; along with a camouflage pattern used in Afghanistan and Navy patterns, spokeswoman Debi Dawson said in an email. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad because I just bought a set of multicams to wear in support of TSO while he&#8217;s in Afghanistan and I don&#8217;t want to lay out more money. You know when I went in the Army, a set of fatigues cost $13 and another $12 for boots. Jump boots were $20. At some point this uniform shit needs to end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year we had a rather furious battle here when the Army made overtures to the &hellip; <a title=\"Army vs. USMC MARPAT battle ends\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29585\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army vs. USMC MARPAT battle ends<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}