{"id":86008,"date":"2019-04-03T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T15:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=86008"},"modified":"2019-04-03T10:54:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T14:54:36","slug":"army-whats-old-is-new-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86008","title":{"rendered":"Army: What’s Old is New Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The video below shows Major General James Gaven leading the 82nd<\/sup> Airborne Division in the 1946 New York City Victory Parade. They are followed by the heavy armored equipment and guns used during the War. (At age 38, GEN Gaven was one of the youngest senior officers coming out of WWII.)<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s90og73p2fo<\/a><\/p>\n

It relates to this article from Army Times about the \u201cnew\u201d Army uniform, which looks like a return to the post-WWII uniform, as the article indicates. The olive drab belted jacket and khaki pants constitute the uniform worn by the 82nd<\/sup> Airborne Division during their postwar victory parade in New York City in 1946, which was the standard issue uniform.<\/p>\n

I had no idea that the military was interested in making fashion statements these days.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/03\/26\/heres-an-early-look-at-the-new-officer-army-greens\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I wonder now if the Navy will be returning to WWII gear for sailors. For the Navy, there is the sleeve insignia, in which the crow faced right or left, depending on which sleeve the rating badge was attached to, as well as the shoulder slash and sleeve stripes indicating nondesignated ratings for deck crew, such as Seaman First Class.\u00a0 Will there be a return to the aviation greens and grays with navy blue rate badges, never mind the crackerjack Donald Duck hat?<\/p>\n

Nothing will surprise me less.<\/p>\n

But not the Marine Corps. They have not made any essential changes since about the 1920s in much of anything other than dumping the jungle greens from Vietnam to switch over to more modern patterned camouflage fatigues, and better armor and footwear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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