{"id":30530,"date":"2012-06-26T08:08:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T12:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30530"},"modified":"2012-06-26T08:08:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T12:08:49","slug":"does-it-really-matter-i-mean-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30530","title":{"rendered":"Does it really matter? I mean seriously."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beretverde sent us a link to an <a href=\"http:\/\/now.msn.com\/now\/0625-new-army-uniforms.aspx\">MSNBC article<\/a> about the Army wasting $5 billion on research for the perfect camouflage uniform for soldiers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to insiders, the design was selected after the Marines had switched to an eye-catching pixel-driven pattern. &#8220;That&#8217;s what this really comes down to,&#8221; the editor of Soldier Systems Daily said. &#8220;&#8216;We can&#8217;t allow the Marine Corps to look more cool than the Army.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I really don&#8217;t get this whole discussion. I&#8217;ve never seen a camouflage pattern that hides soldiers, and after a few hours in the field, all uniforms look the same &#8211; dirt. Of course, the last line of that paragraph above is what it&#8217;s all about anyway &#8211; the coolest pattern. So uniforms are a recruiting tool now, functionality is secondary. <\/p>\n<p>With so many other things they could be spending money to protect the force, things like training which effectively make up for the fact that uniform camouflage patterns don&#8217;t do anything, why is Big Army mostly concerned with fashion?<\/p>\n<p>And if a trainee is more attracted the Marines than the Army because of a camouflage pattern, does either service really want such a superficial dork anyway?<\/p>\n<p>All it really is about is job security for those POGs at Nattick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beretverde sent us a link to an MSNBC article about the Army wasting $5 billion on &hellip; <a title=\"Does it really matter? I mean seriously.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30530\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does it really matter? I mean seriously.<\/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":[198,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30530","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=30530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}