My pleasure.
Marines vs Soldiers
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Well its true Switch. It’s us and the Army guys who get killed, so we are the ones the civvies here about on the six o’clock news.
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United States Air Force, taxi drivers for the United States Army.
United States Navy, cruise ships for the United States Marine Corps.:P
Air Force does the flyin, Infantry does the dyin.
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Pervavita your description of boot camp is about what Infantry school was like. One of the pleasures was walking 5 or so miles to classes and that did not even count for all the mandatory road marches. You are still off base on the WWII PTO Nimitz had ground units under his control in his area. MacArthur was in command in the south west pacific more or less where Japan’s money Islands are at in the game.
Switch is probably a year or two older than me but I remember Nixon resigning and all that. My Avatar pic is from '87 as well and obviously the Army already had BDUs except for Rangers and Special Forces that wore the Vietnam era OD 107 slant pockets. As far as rip stop goes it seems the stuff always ripped along the reinforcement threads. We used to call them “rip starts”. The above mentioned 107s did not rip as easy and seemed a bit thinner. The Marine digital doesn’t look that bad to me but the Army stuff sticks out like a sore thumb in a temperate environment.
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They started to rip easy, but the rips took some effort (at least on my uniforms) to get through the fishline cross hatching.
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My “summer weight” BDU’s in the Army tore a HELL of a lot easier than my old fatigues in the Air Force…
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No idea. Can only say that the ones issued in the 90’s seemed to be working just fine. Worst tear I ever had was a tiny little thing and it never got bigger.
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Well Switch is apparently a bit older than me, though I can say I joined in the 80s. May 18th 1989. I remember being at the dendtist, one of the few places we could see news from the real world, when the News was talking about Iraq Invading some country called Kuwait that we’d never heard of. LOL, six monthes later I got my first National Defence medal.
Anyway, I don’t mind the digital camo patern, it’s the uniforms them selves that I don’t like. I think the patern is pretty good for urban, and if your sneeking around as an infantry scout you’ll have a guilly suit anyway. The problem I have with them is they are suposedly wrinkle proof (that’s what they say every time we get a new uniform) the process aparently makes them not breath. If you wash them about 100 times they get beter, but I still kinda feel like I’m wearing pajama’s.
I think the AF should go back to the od greens, what do they need camo for anyway. They were testing some blue camo a couple years ago, but someone must have realized how retarded they looked because I haven’t seen them lately.
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Apparently the Air Force has went with a “tiger stripe” patter that has Air Force blue in it. I guess they figured the pattern would blend in with the light coming in the office window from the venetian blinds. :-D
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LMAO, raar! Airforce tigers raar…
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I don’t care if I am former USAF Academy, that was funny right there :-)
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@ncscswitch:
I don’t care if I am former USAF Academy, that was funny right there :-)
Go get 'em Tiger. That’s a good sport!
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LMAO, it keeps getting better. They have a mens and womens cut…
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If you bring a couple ferns into the office you’ll blend right in… :roll:
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Well Switch is apparently a bit older than me, though I can say I joined in the 80s. May 18th 1989. I remember being at the dendtist, one of the few places we could see news from the real world, when the News was talking about Iraq Invading some country called Kuwait that we’d never heard of. LOL, six monthes later I got my first National Defence medal.
A National Defense medal…in Iraq?
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National Defence Service Medal isn’t what it sounds like, http://www.gruntsmilitary.com/natdef.shtml
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National Defence Service Medal isn’t what it sounds like, http://www.gruntsmilitary.com/natdef.shtml
Sort of the Sec. of Defense kinda thing…I guess
Weird that you can buy those things.
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accually not so much, many retiered or prier service members may want to replace old or damaged ribbons and medals. i got to replace one of mine and also want a few extra sets for various resons.
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Ah the “I love me” display I can’t wait to have mine on the wall, I’d do it now, but it keeps changing. :wink:
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Ok, I can understand veterans getting replacements/duplicates, but just selling to the general public seems kinda…disrespectful? Devaluing the importance of the award…
But at least I know I can play a general or something for Halloween if I want to.
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Ah the “I love me” display I can’t wait to have mine on the wall, I’d do it now, but it keeps changing. :wink:
accually it’s my wife who wants it, not me. i could care less about it, but she wants it so we are doing it.
Ok, I can understand veterans getting replacements/duplicates, but just selling to the general public seems kinda…disrespectful? Devaluing the importance of the award…
But at least I know I can play a general or something for Halloween if I want to.
be carfull with that, it’s a federal offence if cought. i don’t know all the laws on it, but i remember a guy locally going to trial over doing that hear in WA, he went to a funeral though. didn’t hear the virdict, i was younger so i didn’t pay much attention.
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