www.armytimes.com/news/2009/06/military_afghanistan_uniforms_061509w/
“Congress is about to order new combat uniforms for troops in Afghanistan after hearing complaints that camouflage that was fine in Iraq doesn’t work so well in a mountainous and often muddy environment.â€
Bouhammer can tell you that we knew this in 2006. This just goes to show how slow Government moves. It took over three years for them to figure out that the all environment combat uniform is apparently not well designed for “all†environments.
Category: Life in the Military, News Stories
Tom Brouns
says:
I’ll trust others to know best, but I am surprised. A few years ago I remember it was always fun to ask newcomers to “spot the soldier” on a series of large photos hung in the entryway to the HQ building in Bagram…finding the ACUs on a background of Afghan rubble and rocks was like a color-blindness test. So when do we find out what they’ll look like? Fashion statement!
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Haole Wahine
says:
Sometimes supporters supply eye protection, plate carriers and the such in answer to specific requests. Someone seems to always pop up with the question — doesn’t the Army supply such and such. We always try to answer that the ARMY does supply, but it takes such a big organization longer to “TURN” and change something, than a handful of … Read Morecivilians, so if we can we are glad to be able to help out. Help out, while the organization is studying, and in the process of a turn to something different.
Okay, I should have read the whole thing first. Grrrrrr a full report on the cost by Fall. Then I guess a study on the feasibility of the study, then gather up an appropriations bill,
How long did the last change of uniform take????
Remember Admiral Zumwalt’s Z-grams? Seems like we bought new uniforms, and then went back to the old ones in about 18 months. Whiplash for the military.
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Mike T
says:
Holy shit! Just going to wear my DCU/BDU’s with cool guy pockets as back in the old days! This will take 4 years to get done!
Country Singer
says:
Haole Wahine, I remember my dad talking about that and the Z-grams. One of the highlights of his career was serving on Zumwalt’s Sixth Fleet staff…
kitchen dispatch (Kanani)
says:
I’m sitting here reading your blog while hubby gets ready to be dropped off to be deployed. I read this to him as he was packing and just got a funny look!