Nothing to see here, move along

[Selino631]

See Rule #14

[sluggish]

They change things around every few years just to keep themselves busy.

[Selino631]

I'm hoping they go with the Multicam Pattern or this new Mirage camo, i think it looks pretty cool.

[Penguin]

Well what about the desert camo and woodland camo?  I've never heard of an aircraft carrier with so much as a bush on it, oh, wait, nevermind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_George_H.W._Bush_(CVN-77)

-Penguin

[Maverick]

About every 5 years or so some big General or Admiral gets a wild hair and causes a TON of money be spent on designing a new frickin uniform. Such a waste, especially if it's not a battle uniform but just garrison wear.

[Dago]

I'm hoping they go with the Multicam Pattern or this new Mirage camo, i think it looks pretty cool.

Yeah, that's the main reason to pick a camo pattern alright.

[gyrene81]

That's the <cough> great thing about the way the government spends money...can't get a bigger budget if you don't create the need for a bigger budget.

The really sad thing is, the people serving have to pay for the extra uniforms out of pocket.

[Maverick]

Yup I bought 5 sets of the permanent press class B "tans" when I graduated from ROTC. When I went to my OBC I found out that the wear out date for them was in less than 2 months.

I had just bought 4 sets of fatigues, the wash and wear permanent press style and they announce the Army is going to BDU's.  I wore the fatigues until the actual final wear date. Usually I was the only one in formation with them on but it was my company. It did get me some looks from the BN Cmdr though.

Later I had just purchased 6 sets of BDU's and had all the patches etc sewn on, then there is an announcement that there is going to be a change to the frickin shirt.  I still don't know what the heck it was but fortunately I ended up retiring before that wear out date arrived.