{"id":54512,"date":"2014-08-12T09:45:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T13:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54512"},"modified":"2014-08-12T12:19:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T16:19:23","slug":"new-army-pt-gear-coming-to-a-clothing-sales-store-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54512","title":{"rendered":"New Army PT Gear: Coming to a Clothing Sales Store Near You"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yep:\u00a0 yet another new uniform.<\/p>\n
You can take a look at the new stuff here<\/a>.\u00a0 According to the article, it will cost a touch less than the existing PT gear \u2013 maybe as much as a whopping $3 less for the set.<\/p>\n
To cut costs, there’s no reflective lettering on this new uniform. But as the linked article reminds us all:\u00a0 “When needed, soldiers can wear reflective belts.\u201d\u00a0 (sheesh)<\/p>\n
There will also be a \u201cmix-n-match\u201d optional version of the new PT gear.\u00a0 This optional version will be made of different, \u201chigher performance fabric\u201d. This optional version will be will not be issued to all; soldiers desiring these items will need to purchase them out of pocket.\u00a0 These items will also be substantially more costly than the issue version.<\/p>\n
Yeah, I said “mix-n-match” above.\u00a0 The concept is to allow optional and issue items to be mixed if the soldier desires to do so.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s gonna look just freaking great as stuff is laundered a few times and and fades. I\u2019ve yet to see two different fabrics that fade the same when repeatedly laundered.<\/p>\n
The new PT gear is the result of soldier feedback from at least two surveys. For the first, 76,000+ soldiers responded; for the second, 170,000. At 10 min per survey, that\u2019s, only . . . oh, 19.65 standard staff-years just to respond to the surveys.<\/p>\n
And that doesn\u2019t include the time to record and analyze the data, develop the surveys, design and test the uniforms, or put out a contract for their manufacture. Or to buy and issue the new uniforms.<\/p>\n
Hey, I wasn\u2019t a big fan of the grey post-2000 Army PT uniform. But it worked well enough. Who cares if Joe and Jane Tentpeg didn\u2019t like the way it looked? It\u2019s not a damned fashion statement, folks \u2013 it\u2019s freaking PT gear.\u00a0 You wear it while you get smelly, sweaty, and nasty while working out hard.<\/p>\n
So, somebody tell me: why in the hell did we spend the $$$ to develop something new to replace something that worked well enough – yet again?<\/p>\n
Must be because the Army has plenty of money.\u00a0 Yeah, that’s it.\u00a0 Gotta be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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