Uniforms
I think I’ve stated before and have even posted pictures of the Army’s choice in new battlefield uniforms. Called ACUs, or Advanced Combat Uniform, it has a pixilated pattern on it to disrupt a person’s perception of the outline of the soldier from a distance. It’s a pretty “high speed” outfit (military speak for ‘pretty cool’) and I acquired 4 more sets of the uniform today at the issue point (the place that Ryan, Chris and I were originally going to go before Ryan chopped his finger off yesterday). Despite the freezing temps in the warehouse, we stripped down to PT shorts and T-shirts to try on the uniforms that they had laid out for display. Mind you, we already have uniforms and we know our sizes, but this ritual is something that all the folks who are deploying had to go through at one point or another. I had Mr. “9.5 fingers” take a picture to show how ridiculous we looked since he didn’t have to don the required attire to try his on due to his injury so I apologize about the blurriness. What do you expect from a non-Asian who is missing parts of his digits?
I think I’ve stated before and have even posted pictures of the Army’s choice in new battlefield uniforms. Called ACUs, or Advanced Combat Uniform, it has a pixilated pattern on it to disrupt a person’s perception of the outline of the soldier from a distance. It’s a pretty “high speed” outfit (military speak for ‘pretty cool’) and I acquired 4 more sets of the uniform today at the issue point (the place that Ryan, Chris and I were originally going to go before Ryan chopped his finger off yesterday). Despite the freezing temps in the warehouse, we stripped down to PT shorts and T-shirts to try on the uniforms that they had laid out for display. Mind you, we already have uniforms and we know our sizes, but this ritual is something that all the folks who are deploying had to go through at one point or another. I had Mr. “9.5 fingers” take a picture to show how ridiculous we looked since he didn’t have to don the required attire to try his on due to his injury so I apologize about the blurriness. What do you expect from a non-Asian who is missing parts of his digits?
It took me back to R-Day at school when we had to walk around in crazy uniforms at issue points and had to have our socks pulled up to our knees (I pushed mine down on purpose for the picture). The reflections on our shorts are from the reflective “Army” logos on our PT shorts. It helps so that we can be seen by cars when we run at zero early thirty in the morning for PT, but it hampers us when we try to sneak up on the enemy in the dark wearing only our exercise outfits.
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