Monday - October 15, 2007
 Speaking of Uniforms
I know some officers that would have a cow about
this, but someday our dress uniforms will be
camouflaged.Throughout history, dress
uniforms have been superseded by field
uniforms.Our current dress blues used
to be our field uniform as shown here in very poor images taken from "The Wind and the
Lion." The role of the Marines in this movie is entirely fantasy, but
the uniforms are correct.
 
Compare those uniforms with the current dress
uniform.  If
you look at World War I, you'd see that the field uniforms then are remarkably
similar to our current service
uniforms.  So,
I don't think it's far fetched to say that someday, in about a hundred years,
the full dress Marine uniform will have cargo pockets, camouflage, and an 8
cornered hat. And won't we feel silly for not allowing Marines to put gas in
their cars on the way to work while wearing it?
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