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Title: 240 Years Of Army Uniforms
Post by: Dichotomy on July 18, 2015, 12:40:01 PM: In two minutes

http://www.buzzfeed.com/nickguillory/usa-army-fashion-over-240-years?utm_term=.hwZwMARJV#.lkbWApyz9

I thought this was pretty cool
Title: Re: 240 Years Of Army Uniforms
Post by: Ripsnort on July 19, 2015, 08:16:47 AM: Awesome! :aok
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Post by: zack1234 on July 19, 2015, 09:00:58 AM: When i was at fort verde i was suprised that US uniforms look British :old:
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Post by: TOMCAT21 on July 19, 2015, 09:02:01 AM: Loved my BDU's.
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Post by: FLOOB on July 19, 2015, 03:44:13 PM: One of those was never a US Army uniform. In fact it was the uniform of an enemy of the USA.
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Post by: Chalenge on July 19, 2015, 09:04:21 PM: If you are thinking of Confederate gray, then you are mistaken. Not only did some Northern units wear gray, but some Southern units wore blue. And on both sides there was a lot of everything else, also.
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Post by: Someguy63 on July 20, 2015, 03:18:59 AM: Interesting. One of my favorite eras for military history would be the Enlightenment era. I was a bit disappointed on how they displayed the Continental regular.
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Post by: Rich46yo on July 20, 2015, 12:43:21 PM: Very excellent, yet I wonder if a few were left out as some conflicts werent listed. The war against the Spanish being one. It would have been nice to see a few other units being honored too, like armored...ect

I once saw a gun collection that included every main battle rifle ever issued to any army in all History. OMG I didnt want to leave the place. :lol
Title: Re: 240 Years Of Army Uniforms
Post by: Treize69 on July 20, 2015, 05:32:15 PM: Quote from: zack1234 on July 19, 2015, 09:00:58 AM
When i was at fort verde i was suprised that US uniforms look British :old:

Up until after WWII all of our uniforms looked an awful lot like someone elses. Our uniforms until the 1820s tended to look like the Brits with colors changed, from the 1820s to the 1850s they looked like Prussians (even in the same blue), from the 1850s to the 1870s they looked French, from the 1870s to the late 1890s tthey looked Prussian again (complete with the Pickelhaube), and from around 1900 until just before WWII they look like Brit uniforms again, complete with the Sam Browne belt. It's not until after WWII that other nations started copying US uniforms and equipment, and not the other way around.
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Post by: mbailey on July 20, 2015, 07:17:52 PM: Wow great find Dicho :aok
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Post by: FLOOB on July 20, 2015, 11:09:24 PM: Quote from: Chalenge on July 19, 2015, 09:04:21 PM
If you are thinking of Confederate gray, then you are mistaken. Not only did some Northern units wear gray, but some Southern units wore blue. And on both sides there was a lot of everything else, also.
That's true but that's not the same thing as saying the CS army uniform was the US Army uniform, which is not correct.
Title: Re: 240 Years Of Army Uniforms
Post by: Dichotomy on July 22, 2015, 10:29:09 AM: Quote from: mbailey on July 20, 2015, 07:17:52 PM
Wow great find Dicho :aok

Can't take credit for it. Julie sent it to me but thank you sir.