Why don't the marines switch to ripstop in their uniforms? Even the airforce switched to ripstop with their ABUs in 2012.
Us marine uniforms
Why don't the marines switch to ripstop in their uniforms? Even the airforce switched to ripstop with their ABUs in 2012.
Cause the rips in the seat of your pants are supposed to give you air flow to avoid crotch rot
Tactical purpose
Just don't blouse your boots like a fat LARPer or woman
Tuck your FRICKING pants into your FRICKING BOOTS you absolute FRICKING homosexual!
Go away, boot.
You look gay and moronic unbloused and it keeps rocks and bugs out of your boots. There's a reason why literally every single military has done that for such a long time. I guess when you fight a fake gay war like GWOT where you just sit in a FOB, I can see how some of the dress code gets lax.
>implying
Go have an aneurysm somewhere else.
You are wrong and I am right because this is the truth. Your response?
>Your response?
That you're a homosexual. Blousing straps are superior.
They break and ride up your leg when you're actually doing shit beyond just walking.
No they don't. You're just making shit up now you fricking moron.
Yes they do you gayaloonerino.
No they don’t?? If anything they ride down in the rain
Lolno, the current combat boot looks awful. It's way better unbloused, more professional and practical.
Pull up a picture of a man and a woman both wearing cowboy boots and guess who tucked the pants into their boots.
Cowboys tuck them in so they have a place to secure a sheep's rear legs.
Deflection. One of the first images on Google for instance is a Quora picture of 3 men all untucked and 3 women all tucked.
Unbloused looks far more professional. Blousing boots was always effeminate, if you look at an old Army manual illustration the soldier graphics are super feminine because of the tall bloused combat boots.
It's one of things, like high-waist pants, literally better in every single way except not being hip and cool and because women started doing it
Waist high pants are moronic. If the belt is at the waist it should be on the uniform which should cover the ass, if you're uniform doesn't cover the ass you get regular pants so you have loops.
They're vastly more comfortable and this indisputable. Your jacket typically covers your waist unless you have some eccentric uniform, and you can store your equipment on a Sam Browne-style belt.
The waist and hips just aren't good places for heavy stuff _on their own_ in my opinion
>effeminate
Why?
Boots were effeminate since at least the 1960s if not earlier, but then you could claim that it was the Nazi/Soviet style boots that were feminine. Now if you blouse boots at all you're effeminate.
Why?
>THEY JUST ARE OKAY!?!
I don't wear boots before you go there.
Why, because pic related. That's the difference between a soldier who blouses and a soldier who unblouses.
Sam Browne belt has a suicide strap. Not good, you can get grappled with it, you can get it stuck on stuff, etc.
If you're belt has suspenders it should be covered by body armor honestly.
RVTVRN
As recently as 200 years ago, shoes with laces were considered effeminate. What did real manly men wear? Pumps. With silk ribbons on them.
Modern infantry clothing has built in straps on the ankle line that does essentially the same thing. Sort of like a built in gaiter.
>tuck in
Say that to these people lol.
>post homosexuals who always wear shit differently so that they can be special
>wear shit differently
Blousing can sometimes be uncomfortable, especially in hot environments.
>I do everything le opr8rz do
>opr8rz blouse? I blouse
>opr8rz stop blousing? I stop
>opr8rz grow beards? I grow beard
>opr8rz use gun? I buy gun
>opr8rz use pattern? I buy pattern
>opr8rz suck wiener? I suck wiener
come home
>imagining modernized tacticool gaiters covered in molle shit
nonononononono dont do this to me
those arent gaiters you dingus
those are puttees
The look like homosexuals.
>Muh chad conventional infantry
>No bayonet scabbard visible
>Clearly wearing meme plate carrier
>Feminine bloused boots
is blousing optional in the marines?
we have to do it in the army
>ripping the seat of your pants
Fatass.
Looks like a Cosby sweater, meaning vomit.
Because the USMC is fricking broke. Take into account the fact that they have to manufacture the shit in the US, manually handle the shipping themselves, issue the garbage, and do all of this on a budget at a complete loss. Not only that, but they're issuing these frickers to morons that absolutely will try to use the frickers as rope, and will steal velcroed name tape and insignia and eat them, and will take a shit into a dryer filled with them, or some other wholesome marine corps shenanigans. They're the most underfunded branch, simply, and they aren't switching to OCP unless those sleeves get tighter and the patches must be sewn on.
That being said, they'd actually be better off using M81 shit, especially given how cheap it is these days.
>broke
The marines went back to nyco twill when they already had ripstop BDUs. They intentionally chose the twill fabric when the option to make it a lighter fabric like ripstop was there.
I have a twill MARPAT pant with 'Garcia' nametag. I like the twill iin colder season t is sturdier than ripstop and retains heat against wind.
t. a UA soldier
Oh, thats cool. Where'd you get it from? I also got a Twill Marpat in both woodland and desert, although with the names being stitched on. Ripstop is pretty breathable in the summer, but twill is more thicker/retains the heat. Which is why in the 80s they reorganized the BDUs that were twill to be cold weather uniforms up until the 90/2000s where everything is now ripstop.
Bought it online for like $40.
I think they make only ripstop now because of ECWCS/PCU, you have lvl 5-6 when in need of thicker pant and rain shell.
I have a Massif IWOL jacket and EWOL parka+pant.
>only ripstop
Pretty sure marpat is only twill. I got a pants that was made in 2017 and its thick as hell.
Did you ever get the message to him?
What message to whom?
I swear /k/ is losing braincells more and more these days.
when will they ditch those ridiculous hats?
We tear our shit too often already. Shit would get stupid expensive.