I was the first staff officer at NAVCENT to wear camouflage uniforms to the office but certainly not the last. In my defense I was also the caretaker and custodian of a number of 5 ton trucks and generators and they had to be cycled every month to keep them in good running condition. In practice this meant that I would do the pre-start checks on the generators and fire them up and then I'd climb into each truck in turn and drive it for a couple of laps around the outside of the Banz warehouses co-located with our base at Juffair in Bahrain.
It was activity that didn't go well with my limited supply of khaki uniforms so on those days I showed up in the office wearing desert camouflage and the EOD and SEAL I shared the office with started to copy me. So yeah, it was me, way back in 1996. That said, it is time to put the staff officers and 100% of the flag and general officers back into the real Uniform of the Day and eliminate the practice of wearing camouflage unless duties require it.
It is also long passed the time to stop screwing around and changing the uniform every 2 years. It would be nice if the Secretary of Defense concurred and put out a SECDEC policy memo to everyone wearing the uniform.
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And for EMs bring back the comfortable undress blues. And while we're at it, get rid of that candy-ass blue piping on the EM whites.
Retired AF enlisted guy here. I always thought the DOD could save a significant amount of money getting rid of uniform boards and constant evaluation and implementation of new uniforms every couple of years. At least in the AF, 90+ % of the enlisted force would do just fine in the fatigues I used in the 70s.
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