{"id":39617,"date":"2014-02-03T16:17:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T21:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39617"},"modified":"2014-02-03T16:17:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T21:17:10","slug":"congress-to-pentagon-stop-the-uniform-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39617","title":{"rendered":"Congress to Pentagon; Stop the uniform madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark sends us a link to Military Times<\/a> which reports that the new defense authorization bill for 2014 contains a paragraph which addresses the utility uniform differences between the services, that they should all stop wasting billions of dollars to design and then scrap their forays into martial fashion;<\/p>\n

The compromise defense authorization bill for 2014 includes a provision that directs the Defense Department to \u201cto adopt and field a common combat and camouflage utility uniform, or family of uniforms, for specific combat environments, to be used by all members of the armed forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

And if that becomes law, as appears likely, it would change the future image of the joint force.<\/p>\n

For years, lawmakers have been annoyed by the military services\u2019 increasingly elaborate wardrobe of camouflage variants designed for the same forward-deployed environments. Over the past decade, the four services have developed at least seven new combat utility uniforms, each with its own unique design.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I don’t get it, either. Back in my day, sonny, the Ranger Battalions wore camouflaged jungle fatigues and the 82d had them for a field-only uniform. For that reason, seeing a clerk in camouflage is strange and out of sorts. Maternity BDUs had the same effect on me. So having the Navy and the Air Force in their completely worthless camouflage seems even more odd. And of course, there are the Marines and their MARPATs;<\/p>\n

This year, the Joint Staff\u2019s top enlisted adviser, Marine Sgt. Maj. Bryan Battaglia, said the mix of uniforms makes the U.S. military look like a \u201cBaskin-Robbins\u201d and signaled his support for a common uniform.<\/p>\n

But Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos recently said preserving the Corps\u2019 MARPAT pattern is a top priority and declared that his service will stick to it \u201clike a hobo to a ham sandwich.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that’s helpful. I’m glad that Amos finally found something he can get adamant about, but it’s unfortunate that the something is fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark sends us a link to Military Times which reports that the new defense authorization bill … Congress to Pentagon; Stop the uniform madness<\/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":[187,184,84,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-marine-corps","category-military-issues","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39617","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=39617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}