{"id":79445,"date":"2018-05-14T12:40:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T16:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79445"},"modified":"2018-05-14T12:40:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T16:40:20","slug":"air-force-to-adopt-armys-ocp-uniform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79445","title":{"rendered":"Air Force to adopt Army&#8217;s OCP uniform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79446\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79446\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/OCP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"276\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79446\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Air Force announced today that they are adopting the Army&#8217;s Operational Camouflage Pattern (OCP) uniform, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/05\/14\/the-long-awaited-ocp-uniform-is-on-its-way-to-the-air-force-and-heres-when-you-could-get-it\/\">Air Force Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Air Force announced Monday that it is adopting the Army\u2019s OCP as its official utility uniform. The uniform will roll out across the force over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>While some airmen already wear the OCP ? such as airmen in the Middle East and Air Force Global Strike Command security forces ? the Air Force will start rolling it out to others beginning Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p>By April 1, 2021, all airmen will be required to wear the OCP, and the current airman battle uniform, or ABU, will be no more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur airmen have made it clear, with a resounding, \u2018Hey, we want to get into this uniform as soon as we possibly can,\u2019\u201d Maj. Gen. Robert LaBrutta, the Air Force\u2019s director of military force management policy, said in a May 9 interview at the Pentagon. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, it was probably cheaper than coming up with their own pattern, too. There will be military fashionista designers who are unemployed as a result. AMFers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force announced today that they are adopting the Army&#8217;s Operational Camouflage Pattern (OCP) uniform, &hellip; <a title=\"Air Force to adopt Army&#8217;s OCP uniform\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79445\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Air Force to adopt Army&#8217;s OCP uniform<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79445","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=79445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}