A Uniform Gone

The Army has decided to drop the Class A green uniform and dress whites. This came out of their current military streamlining process. Instead they will use the already existing Dress Blues. Donald Sensing approves. I'm not so sure.

First the Class A uniform does look dated. Soldiers and airmen I've seen wearing it without the jacket (often with short sleeves) look silly. We don't want service members looking silly unless they're in the Air Force. This explains why so many soldiers wear BDUs everywhere. So yes perhaps phasing the current version out is a good idea.

But I still like the Army in green. The blue uniforms look like they belong in the Navy. I guess I still want the Army to look like it gets in the dirt and works for a living. Yes the Army has traditionally worn blue uniforms, but they haven't done so with a field uniform since the Spanish-American War.

If they wanted to update and streamline the dress uniform, I would have rather gone to a white shirt (instead of the dreaded mint green) and a darker green (like a forest green) instead of the Olive Drab which admittedly looks pretty dated. Then ditch both the Class A and the dress blues in favor of that. Plus a green uniform means they can still wear the black beret with it.