so yeah, correct me if I'm wrong, but I heard something about the fact that the Navy is wearing Army Combat Uniform type uniforms now? that seems a little different...
Okay, I will, don't take this personally, it's matter of personal pride in the Navy. I went to West Point for a semester, so I don't have anything against them, but I will razz the Army night and day, but its family love man.
The deal with ALL the digital cammies goes like this. So a while back, the Marine Corps and the Army thought maybe we can design a better cammie, one that works better, requires less uptake (less starch), blah blah blah. So the started to develop the digital cammie together. Somewhere along the way, the parted ways because each service wanted to personalize it (little eagle globe and anchors for the Marines). Could be wrong, but I doubt that the Marine Corps intitiated the split, being the most cash strapped, they stood to profit by leveraging off the Army. Anyways, the Marine version came first, followed about a year or two later by the Army.
Now, wher I have to say you may have a point, the Navy then jumped in not wanting to be left out and came out with their own stupid blue cammies. There were a couple different (like three) designs they tried out. Here is where it gets really ******ed. They chose the kind of haze grey/blue design because it would work best on ships, thinking they would shift that to the working uniform (fine, give the poopie suit back to the sub guys). Sure, it has lots of pockets, wash and wear, etc. However, since it is designed to blend with the ship and the sea, sounds pretty ******ed if someone falls overboard, huh? I guess it protects you from the undected Russian ship shadowing every battlegroup half a nautical mile behind. Guess we give those russkies a lot of credit! I'll have to get back to you on whether it has an American flag or not.
But no, we didn't copy yours, we jumped the shark and got our own. However, since I plan if having to do a GMO tour, to do it with Marines, I'll buy their uniform. That way I won't stick out like a sour thumb in the woods or the dessert, cause there aren't too many rivers for me to go jump into and hide in the dessert.
All in all, stupid decision, this should have been a DOD wide swap, not a service specific deal, it costs all those enlisted guys more money to buy a service specific uniform since there is no economy of scale. When the digitals came out in the Corps, you could only buy them at first if you were working up to deploy, only if there were leftovers did everyone else get to buy them. ******ED.
