Operational Camouflage Pattern arrives
Our reader “Ohio” sends us a link to Fox News which reports that the new Operational Camouflage Pattern uniforms have finally been approved for wear by soldiers beginning July 1 when they appear at your local clothing sales stores.
“It’s important to the Army, and the reason it is important to the Army is because it is all about force protection,” [Col. Bob Mortlock, the head of the Army’s Project Manager Soldier Protection and Individual Equipment] said. “In the close fight, soldiers rely on camouflage to provide concealment, and that is critically important to their mission effectiveness.”
Army units are scheduled to receive an All Army Activities, or ALARACT, message today that lays out the service’s plans to transition from the current Army Combat Uniform in the digital Universal Camouflage Pattern to the updated ACU in the new Operational Camouflage Pattern.
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When pressed to describe the visual differences between the two patterns, Mortlock would say only that OCP “has been optimized for performance across all the military operating environments that the Army may face. It has also been optimized for night-time operations.”
As far as the “visual, daytime characteristics, I’m not going to get into at this time,” he said.
Mortlock did provide some background on the development of OCP, which was formerly known as Scorpion W2.
Yeah, good job, Army, you were able to spend billions of dollars and come up with a new collar for the old MultiCams. That’s being frugal. I’m sure something will be wrong with the new design that they’ll discover as it rolls out to the troops and require more research to keep the field grades employed.
I guess it really doesn’t matter that after ten minutes in the mud and dust, all camouflage patterns look the same – what’s important is that everyone looks like a life-taker in garrison, isn’t it? I’m sure that the Operational Camouflage Pattern looks fabulous in the maternity version.
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Um……..that looks just like the old BDU pattern after it had been washed about 100 times. So, we have to spend a lot of money and time to go backwards?
Sometimes it would be worth spending a lot of money and time to go backwards.
Now in pre-faded colors, just like all the cool kids wear…
Should we start a countdown on how long it takes for the Army to declare this camo pattern unsuitable and put out a call for bids on a new uniform? Months? Weeks? Days?
How is it that we were able to survive for over 20 years with BDUs and the ACU couldn’t even survive half that long?
…How is it that we were able to survive for over 20 years with BDUs and the ACU couldn’t even survive half that long?
BDUs???? ACU????
Ha! You young whippersnapper. You don’t know how tough it was going to the field wearing OG-107 cotton sateen olive green (OG) fatigues! How difficult it was to snoop-and-poop without being seen since only the war zone special troops wore camouflage.
And back in garrison, the razor-sharp starched creases …. “breaking starch” in the morning …. etc. [heck, the USAF even had permantent pressed fatigues].
AND … we were not allowed to wear them off-post at all! Then, we were allowed to, but only if it was at a “Quickee Mart” stop on the way home.
Kids nowadays! [pah!] They’ve got it made. They look like killers (well … pregnant killers), they can wear their “fatigues” anytime, and they don’t have to spend money for extra-heavy starch. And boots! They don’t even have to polish their boots.
I don’t know what’s become of MY army.
Signed,
Crusty Curmudgeon
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Actually, Martinjmper …. you were in when we still had the OG-107s, right? BDUs were fielded around 1980. I wore the OGs for about seven years and loved them. Hated the BDUs.
I think it was a bit later than that, at least for the Air Force–more like 1987 or so. We wore OG-107s before that (on the rare occasions that we were actually allowed to wear something other than blues. . .). And yeah, only Quick-Mart stops in those. . .
…I think it was a bit later than that,…
I just checked Google… BDUs were fielded in September 1981. I was in the 2/503 at that time and remember having to buy them; but I think I remember wearing them before departing around March 1982. I definitely wore them in 1983.
But you were Army, right?
Yupper! Army All the Way!
OK. I think it was a few years later (1986 or 1987) that the Air Force started getting them.
I wore them on Bragg in 84. They were not common but still approved at that time.
The BDUs came out in 1982 when I was at Fort Benning. They were far superior to the old green fatigues IMO, especially the hat, and the top not being tucked in but were obviously too heavy for summer use. It took them years to come out with a lightweight version. They repeated the exact same mistake with the desert uniform years later. Also before the BDUs came out, the 101 nd 82 were allowed to wear jungle fatigues (both camo and green) for several years, an edict which was extended across the board in the USAR right before the BDUs came out.
Tell ’em, RGR!
I can’t think of anything sillier than aquaflage, a pattern guaranteed to get you lost at sea and eaten by sharks or killer whales because no one will be able to SEE you.
In all fairness, it’s not like the old dungarees would really stand out in the middle of the ocean.
True. But I don’t believe the old dungarees cost around $80 a set, either.
Not so fast. The new “thing” in the Air Force is heavy-starch sleeve creases and board stiff caps–in ABUs! Not “mandatory”, of course, but if you want to be considered for promotion. . . Dear God, I’m embarrassed to say I was Air Force!
…everything is permanent press…not supposed to even touch it with an iron. Yet many still do.
ABU= A Bad Uniform
Yeah, tell that to CINCAF and CMSAF. . .
That was pretty much the case with the BDU – initially. “Touch up with cool iron; do not starch.”
That lasted about 2 years, as I recall.
they were still issuing starch fatigues in 1977 – once starch was broken, a really comfortable uniform. Then we went to permanent press… which realistically you sill had to starch or at minimum iron. When BDUs came in, you didn’t even dry them fully – to protect the “IR coating” in the fabric, you were supposed to cool-fluff them mostly dry and never, ever press them. Then you could lightly iron ’em…then it went back to starch and press and to hell with the expensive IR coating. Took less than 2 years from intro in ’81 to starch by ’83. Effectively you went from a $11 set of fatigues to a $50 set of BDUs with no difference in utility.
Ironing was specifically not authorized in AFI 36-2903.
Then, it was magically changed to state that “light ironing” *is* authorized.
“Light ironing” is pretty damn subjective.
Hey you kids, get off my lawn!
BTW is there any truth to the rumor that the Army now issues Corfam shoes in basic training? Meaning that the art of shoe/boot polishing is now one that is only learned by those who wear bloused jump boots with the uniform?
So if that’s true, what do the drill instructors do with all that extra time they have since the Joes and Janes are not polishing their boots and shoes? Is that when all the SHARP and EEO classes are put on? 😉
I went to BCT in 2008, and have never polished a boot.
Oh my God that blows my mind. Thanks man. I feel REALLY old now.
:-/
Guess I should have sold my stock in Kiwi boot polish back in 1998? 🙂
+1
I STILL polish my boots, it helps them last longer.
WOW! Even I polished shoes, and I’m AF, went to boot in 2010.
I was over at my brother’s house when I spotted my ROTC (nursing student) niece’s boots on the porch floor. They looked dreadful. I offered to spit shine them for her. After two hours and a can and a half of Kiwi, one boot looked like a good start. I told her she could do the other one, because I was out of spit.
“So if that’s true, what do the drill instructors do with all that extra time they have since the Joes and Janes are not polishing their boots and shoes?”
They’re busy giving the trainees milk and cookies. Seriously.
Yup, I can confirm that. I graduated from BCT at Ft. Benning last year and was issued the “pre-shined” shoes. I know, kids these days. Don’t worry though, we still spent many hours “shining” our rifles and barracks, so some things never change.
My Bug Out Bag is in a color called Dry Earth. It could disappear in the middle of a Valentine Day display! I have to be careful about laying it down in the woods anywhere and walking away from it, because the bugger just simply vaporizes.
In the past 10 years we’ve had BDUs, DSU, ACUs, and now this. The changes include wholesale changes to boots and field gear, which maintain the same cammo pattern as the uniforms. It seemed like every time I went to get RFI, I was handed the exact same e-tool cover, ruck, sleeping bag bivy cover, and everything else that I already had, but this set had the “new” cammo pattern. Honestly, someone is making a ton of money off of every change that’s made, and it isn’t the tax payer.
^^^^^^^This^^^^^^^^^absotively right.
To my knowledge, the price the taxpayer pays for a new battle shirt is over $200. If you go to ebay, you can buy the same shirt, same manufacturer, new with tags, for $17.95.
And here we are, 30 years later, buying toilet seats again.
Ten points to anyone who understands the reference.
I’ll take the ten points for remembering that it was a 600 dollar toilet seat and a bonus ten points for remembering the 434 dollar CLAW Hammer.
Remember the cost of shelter-half pins?
I don’t know how these thieves sleep at night.
What the “adjustment tool” that was sold to the Army and Air Force in the 80s for 10s of thousands of dollars and turned out to be an Allan wrench.
I thought it was a $6000 toilet seat. That’s what you get when you have to divide the price of the entire plane by the total number of parts (so EVERY part was $600 or $6000 or whatever, regardless of what it was).
Yeah, toilet seats.
The sad part is the government thinks most Americans are stupid enough (apparently they are) to believe that the government actually paid $5,000 for a toilet seat or $200 for a shirt.
It’s always interesting because at some point later someone will ask “how did they fund that project without anyone knowing about it?” Well it’s not hard to figure out if one actually considers what’s happening.
Awhile back I read that no one has had any real knowledge of the CIA’s annual budget since the late 1960’s. While that signals somebody playing fast and loose with our tax dollars, it’s sort of comforting to think that the money is actually going toward some operational cost, and not being used to line some thieving politician’s pockets.
I’m with you, the “black” budget that is not actually known to us mere mortals arrives from a variety of sources…it makes it harder for our enemies or our allies to track efficiently and keeps everyone guessing as to what is exactly going on with these budgets.
I don’t know VOV, every time I have given the government credit for being an evil genius, they have disappointed me on the genius part.
My brother in law was a bubblehead. Before he retired he took me below decks on his boat (the USS Phoenix) in Norfolk and showed me the parts of the boat that were not off limits, which included the head. What I distinctly remember him showing me is the toilet, which was stainless steel with a ball joint in the bottom. Submariners don’t “flush” because of noise, instead they open the ball joint and let the waste fall thru-later they blow it out with high pressure gas. That toilet may have cost $5,000 to meet the specs for operations on a sub, but I doubt that a reporter would have put that into that kind of context in a story. Always bear in mind that newspapers are a business and they sell news, not truth.
Two words: plausible deniability.
You don’t think those toilet seats actually COST $2000, do you?
(And a banana split to the one who recognizes that movie.)
Wasn’t that Independence Day? When they were on Air Force One heading out of Washington.
It was not a “toilet seat,” as in something you could run down and buy at the local Home Depot. From wiki:
US Navy’s “$600 Toilet Seat”:
The P-3C Orion antisubmarine aircraft went into service in 1962. Twenty-five years later, in 1987, it was determined that the toilet shroud, the cover that fits over the toilet, needed replacement. Since the airplane was out of production this would require new tooling to produce. These on-board toilets required a uniquely shaped, molded fiberglass shroud that had to satisfy specifications for vibration resistance, weight, and durability. The molds had to be specially made, as it had been decades since their original production. The price reflected the design work and the cost of the equipment to manufacture them. Lockheed Corporation charged $34,560 for 54 toilet covers, or $640 each.
President Ronald Reagan held a televised news conference in 1987, where he held up one of these shrouds and stated: “We didn’t buy any $600 toilet seat. We bought a $600 molded plastic cover for the entire toilet system.” A Pentagon spokesman, Glenn Flood stated, “The original price we were charged was $640, not just for a toilet seat, but for the large molded plastic assembly covering the entire seat, tank and full toilet assembly. The seat itself cost $9 and some cents.… The supplier charged too much, and we had the amount corrected.” The president of Lockheed at the time, Lawrence Kitchen, adjusted the price to $100 each and returned $29,165. “This action is intended to put to rest an artificial issue,” Kitchen stated.
As is typical of the media then as is today, they have no interest in reporting the facts or correcting their falsehoods.
That is from memory so it may not be quite right but it is actually a good story. In the original Pentagon purchase contract, the Air Force bought some airplanes and spare parts. The planes each cost X and the spare parts (altogether) cost Y – say $6 million. Someone (GAO, Congress, somebody) said, “we cannot buy this big pile of parts for one price, each item has to be separately priced”. In a fit of pique the vendor counted the parts (say there were 10,000 parts) divided the price $6 million by 10,000 and charged $600 for each item – a fancy airplane wheel cost the same as a hammer or toilet seat or a bolt. Thus arose the $600 toilet seat. It was used as a way for the Left to be outraged at the Pentagon acquisition process. If I recall correctly this happened in the early or mid-1970s.
My uncle (CDR D)explained why the military pays so much for an item.
Let’s say the Army needs a simple 1/2″ wrench. The smart thing is to go buy a Craftsman wrench for $6.00, lifetime guarantee. What happens, is DOD contracts with an engineering company to design a 1/2″ wrench. Not a cheap proposition. Next, DOD has to solicit bids to build said wrench, with preference to companies that employ the disabled. More expense. Once the contract is awarded, DOD will conduct field trials on the aforementioned tool, to ensure it’s usefulness and durability. We have now spent several million dollars and have not yet produced a wrench beyond the prototype. When the wrench goes into production, we have…
A Craftsman 1/2″ wrench that costs $1000 each.
Here ended the lesson.
Addendum:
A couple years before the Army went to tan boots, they spent a few million R&D bucks on finding a new combat boot.
Ended up buying the same boot that the USMC spent a few million R&D bucks on.
Differing approaches to JCIDS. The Army goes through all the red tape to justify why they need something, then acquire it. The Marines acquire something, then do the paperwork justifying why they got it.
I have the coffee maker and hammer to this day
Link me up to that sh|t. I wanna get ready for the next Draw the Prophet event!
wahoooo!!
‘Murica!!
Okay, but 5XL costs extra. No doo rag included.
In that same vein, back in 1983 when the Bradley IFV was being fielded to us in Germany, the BII (Basic Issue Items) included a $160.00 Red Devil Putty Knife.
I’m sure Jonn remembers that little fiasco.
No shit, part of the MTT curriculum for the Capability Developer Course taught by “Defense Acquisition University” is watching the movie “The Pentagon Wars.”
If I remember correctly, between 1982 and 1998 (when I left AD), I wore BDUs. During that time, the hot wx BDUs came out, and the desert version was organizational issue, but the standard uniform was BDUs.
During the same amount of years, you guys have had 5(?) different uniform variations.
Wow. The surplus stores must be rolling in the dough…
It’s all the USMC’s fault.
If they hadn’t wanted to look “cool” and “special” and come out with a uniform in an Army-developed digital camouflage pattern, we’d still be using the BDU. (smile)
(Dives into the bunker to avoid incoming.)
Oh boy here we go again musical uniforms. Somebody somewhere is making a ton of cash and somebody at the pentagon stashing a ton of money this is so unreal….
To bad for the guy that created the multicam pattern.
Hunh?
Great point talk about musical uniforms, didn’t congress pass something in NDAA two years ago telling all three branches to use the same field uniform????
i believe your right.
The legislation had an exemption for uniforms patterns that had already been “acquired” prior to the law taking effect. As Scorpion 2 was used in an early 2000’s test it is exempt from the legislation.
Go figure Loop hole Lol..
The good news is that if you got issued the OEF Multicams you can wear em through 2019. You just can’t call them multicams. I’ve got tons of brand new ones left over from deployments so I’m giddy. I hate the ACU’s.
Well, it looks pretty dull, so it’s at least half-way there just for not being shiny and it’s not blotchy like the old BDUs. Let’s just keep this one. If you need anything better, make a ghillie suit or something. (Like I know anything; I was a quartermaster, in CONUS!)
I hit my MRD in about a year so I should be able to get by without buying the new one, thank goodness.
Jonn says:
“I’m sure that the Operational Camouflage Pattern looks fabulous in the maternity version”.
I want to know: “What about the version for the service member who is in the midst of a gender identity crisis?”
Crap I just lost my pancakes LMAO ! ! ! !
Well, there IS a Pink Camo Pattern in the civilian market. And you can get all the equipment, even rifle stocks, in that pattern, too!
SO when the DI screams, “Alright you Ladies….Right, Off You Go”
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So, why is there NOT a “Hello Kitty” reference on that image somewhere.
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Still rockin’ the hook and loop (velcro) crap I see.
When did DoD declare war on buttons?
Only for the sleeve patches and chest pockets. No velro left on the pants at all and the shoulder pockets are now zippered
$$$$$$$$$$$$$Money Money Money Money$$$$$$$$$$$
All I want to know is which boots are best for my hiking project. They have to keep my feet dry and leave enough room for thick woolen socks. And I want them in black, not some color that looks like baby shit. That is SO 2007!
Can they roll up their sleeves and pop collars
It’s multicam with a few minor changes, but the Army owns the rights to the new camo pattern. The difference is that they don’t have to pay some company a gazillion dollars for royalties for the multicam pattern.
Whether the Army infringed on multicam’s patent on Scorpion to field the new uniform is a bit of an open legal question. It wouldn’t surprise many folks if multicam files an infringement action in Federal court after full fielding commences.
This is exactly where Special Operations Command and the CIA and other 3 letter agencies I can’t talk about need to re-activate one of our time-traveling-poser-black-ops-problem-solvers… so they can go back in time and invent Multicam before Multicam invented Multicam! We have the capability, why not use it again?
I can’t believe you just mentioned that in an open forum. That’s just crazy man!
I saw the said pocket guide. This uniform has improvements over the ACUs. They also have the new PTs, which are a lot better than the ones that we have now. I’m going to be purchasing some complete sets starting next month. I have till September 30, 2019, to use my ACUs as the field uniforms. In the meantime, being “dress right dress” is going to be a bit of a challenge… Date Published: 31 May 15 Soldiers & Leaders, Tomorrow an ALARACT message will be distributed which outlines the wear, availability and issue of Army Combat Uniform bearing the Operational Camouflage Pattern. You have until October 1, 2019 to begin wearing the uniform. I’ve attached a pocket guide and other clarifying diagrams to help you understand your responsibilities. There are four things I want to highlight for you: 1.) The Operational Camouflage Pattern will be available for purchase in Military Clothing Sales Stores beginning in the summer of 2015. Stores will receive the uniforms over a period of six months from July to November 2015, and new Soldiers will receive Operational Camouflage Pattern ACUs beginning in January 2016. 2.) Enlisted Soldiers should begin acquiring an inventory of ACU’s with the Operational Camouflage Pattern as they receive their annual clothing allowance. All active duty enlisted Soldiers receive an annual stipend for the purchase of uniforms and accessories. I myself will wait until I am issued my clothing allowance before purchasing a uniform with the Operational Camouflage Pattern. I encourage you to do the same by budgeting for a new uniform, belt, boots, and t-shirts as you receive your clothing allowance over the next 2-3 years. The cost of the uniform in the Operational Camouflage Pattern will be similar to the cost of the uniform in the Universal Camouflage Pattern. Uniforms and equipment in the Operational Camouflage Pattern will be available for U.S. Army National Guard, U.S. Army Reserve, and Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps in Summer 2016. 3.) Soldiers are authorized to mix and match t-shirts, belts, and boots with either the Operation Enduring Freedom Camouflage Pattern or the Operational… Read more »
But …. what about the PT belts of recent history?
How did we ever survive running at zero-dark-thirty without pt belts?
Oh …. Road Guards ….. I forgot about them.
That trouser drawstring saved my dignity once…
Mine too, on a couple of occasions. Leave the belt at home, or in the truck, and the drawstring suffices until you can retrieve it. As for the pen slots, I’ve never used them. Some of my pens don’t fit, I’m left-handed (there we go, we need a left-handed blouse with the pen slots on the right sleeve!), and I think some Soldiers just look gaudy as hell with flashy silver and gold pens catching the light. Recruiters are really bad about that. I’ve always just used my pocket. Knife clipped inside the right, pen clipped inside the left.
I think changing the 3 pen pockets to the 2 pen pockets is going to generate a lot of “No shit, there I was, I reached for my THIRD PEN and …” stories.
Yep, Just as I was getting ready to fill out a Hurt Feelings Report, I reached for my THIRD PEN and it WAS NOT THERE!! Then the shit got real and I had to go to my backup pen. So now I suffer from pen and ink inadequacy and since that is a PTSD stressor, I’m in the process of filing my VA claim.
WHAT? ONLY TWO pen slots? WHERE THE shiteatingasswipecocksuckingmuddafuck am I going to keep my Combat Spoon handy when I’m in the boonies, AWWWW, SHIT!
But the fleece jacket will still not have an opening to get to those pens!
They’re going to have to change the fleece’s color, too probably, now that you bring it up.
Well, considering how much we all bitched and moaned about UCP ACUs, I think it’s a bit early to be bitching about the OCP ACU.
You know, it’s funny. I’m green side Air Force, wear ACUs alot. I love the ACUs, even with the UCP pattern, compared to our ABUs.
I’m not kidding, go try on a pair of ABUs, and tell me you dont look at ACUs in a new light. Even the new “lightweight” ABUs (which are made out the exact same material as ACUs, but don’t seem to ever soften, no matter how many washes) suck.
~Mark
Way to go, Army!
Some days I am glad I am out.
I wonder if All-Points Logistics was involved in this contract?
“It’s important to the Army, and the reason it is important to the Army is because it is all about the Army. And when you are talking about the Army, that means uniforms and uniforms are important.”Col. Bob Mortlock, the head of the Army’s Project Manager Soldier Protection and Individual Equipment] said.”And ah… well, you know, you go out there and you give a 110%, and you wanna fight good, and, you know, you hope you fight good… I think we fought pretty good tonight!
SONOFABITCHIN’ fart-sniffing, booger-eating moldy Swamp Donkey SHIT on a rusted, broken shovel!! I wonder how many of the cuntractors supplying these uniforms are lavish campaign donors to B. Hussein 0bama & Company? I also wonder how many dump truck loads of money the used to slime (I mean pay off) the right lobbyists to blow and bribe the right pols and bureaucrats to get the contract to supply these garments and overcharge to the point where they’ll be laughing and fucking their wives, mistresses, and secretaries all the way to the bank? I remember being in one of the first units to be issued ACU’s to go to A-stan in 2005, we soon referred to them as “pajamas” because of the way they looked and how quickly they fell apart in the boonies. Trouser crotches ripped out in no time, and once over there, the trouser cargo pocket velcro lasted a couple of months at best, and you either had to replace it or be “Joe Shit the Ragbag”. I’m not shitting when I tell y’all that I looked closely at the labels in a few of the first ACU’s I was issued and Goodwill was listed as the cuntractor that made them. I wonder if Gunkwill (*OOPS*. Goodwill) got away with paying the workers that made them anywhere from 25 cents to a couple of dollars an hour “because they’re in rehab” or some shit like that while they charge the USG around $25-40 an hour for labor? (FUXX Goodwill, I quit donating to them years ago!). OH WELL, they MIGHT last what, maybe eight or ten years until some pol, bureaucrat, or perfumed, pampered politician of a Four Star Wonder (or combo thereof) gets a wild hair and a bright idea up their ass (es0 and they burn a few more supertankers full of tax dollars for yet another bright idea! I’ve been Army all of my Military Career, and I admit that part of me envies the USMC when it comes to uniforms. They find out what looks sharp and works, and once they do, THEY LEAVE… Read more »
How many of y’all remember the “PVT Murphy” comic strip? One of the panels in that cracked me up, it had a Troop formation in ACU’s except for one man in BDU’s whispering “I retire before the wear-out date” to the 1SG, who had a scowl on his face that would peel all the paint off of two Aircraft Carriers and a Submarine, what a classic!
That strip was literally the first thing I thought of when I heard mixing-and-matching was going to be authorized again.
Yeah, I miss that strip; and new Delta Bravo Sierra comics would be cool too.
The last I heard the artist (Mark Baker?) was learning to be a tattoo artist.
Guess the US Army didn’t get the memo about the “operation” being over with.
This is duffleblog material.
Everyone needs to just calms down. Everything in this story is worth celebrating. The UCP pattern has always been complete shit. This transition is logical and isn’t costing much, if anything. Existing stocks of OEF-CP are able to be worn through 2019. Anyone who has deployed in the last few years should have that. All new uniforms are being made in OCP. It’s not like we are telling soldiers to throw out their uniforms and buy a ton of new stuff.
Stop bitching and be happy that the army made a logical decision and implementation plan for once. The SMA even said that he doesn’t care if we are mismatched for a few years as long as we are the most lethal fighting force possible.
Pardon me for not getting terribly excited about this “change for the better”. We heard much the same when the BDU was rolled out. And it had a multi-year overlap before the uniform it replaced – the OG107 – was no longer authorized.
Ditto when the ACU was rolled out to replace the BDU. And when the ASU was rolled out to replace the Greens. And when the “new Greens” replaced the “old Greens” in the mid 1990s. All of those also had a multi-year period between new uniform introduction and wear-out date for the older uniform.
Same was true when the poly/cotton OG107s replaced the 100% cotton versions, too.
In short: those of us who are old enough have “seen this movie before”. Some of us have seen it multiple times – in the Army alone.
The previous versions of the show all had pretty much the same ending, too. I predict this one will as well.
yeah, and that ‘overlap’ last just s long as long as it takes till the First Shirt or SMJ does his best ‘by God I want to see UNIFORM in the ranks’ speech.
Good article, thanks.