Personally, I do not like the way the ACUs are made, the velcro doesn't last long and I know it says they have a wear life of 6 months, but I'm lucky if they look good for two. Also, it says they are "wrinkle free", I beg to differ. Basically I think they look atrocious and a waste of money. I know we can come up with a better uniform than this.
What's your opinion and what would you change?
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SGT P.,
You seem to be looking to try and come up with excuses for not showing pride in your uniform for the reason to not have to or want to wear a non-utility uniform, again the common sense factor comes into play, I can tell by your demeanor and comments you have not been in long enough to remember the days of morning formation inspections in the motor pool and having to do maintenance, most people did 1 of 2 things, they brought a pair of coveralls with them to the MP to save their hard work from the weekend, or they did a quick change in the parking lot of boots and/or BDU tops. The same would work for an S-6 NCO having to go somewhere to troubleshoot,1st no one would look down on you for taking the few minutes to change or put on a pair of overalls to work on equipment or change a toner cartridge out that "could explode" as you mentioned, instead of making excuses, you should be thinking and devising ways to be proactive for the issue instead of looking for a reason to say I shouldn't have to be wearing my ASUs for my duty uniform.
For many years, even before BDUs, the duty uniform for many were khaki's in garrison and the field uniform for motor pool, details, and field type jobs while in garrison, and no one complained about someone who had to or needed to change. This is part of the issue with the new generation of Soldiers, they have become lazy in garrison environment, while they may be a stud when deployed and have fast tracked on their promotions based on what they accomplished while deployed and in combat, they are also lackadaisical on performing to standards while back in garrison or accepting what was the standard before we spent last 13 years in dual wars. They say it is a stronger more intelligent forces, but many times they new breed are too smart for their own good as they are more concerned with looking on how to get out of doing what is standard more the they are concerned with enforcing the standards and getting back to basics and standards that work and were functional for generations before they came along.
You need to take a step back and take a look at the whole picture and not what you want and how it affects you, but what the military overall is affected in regards to professionalism and how they look and are perceived and believe it or not the look of the military is not in a good light with the way uniforms look and are perceived.
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