One of them is wearing the hot weather uniform while the rest is wearing a9 mission blouse. But regular military(army/air force) just wear regular OCP cut. Anything else has to be approved by command if they think its within uniform code or they just don't care.
People with stars on their chests aren't bound by the same uniform standard as everyone else.
I remember seeing a 4 star wearing literal fucking cowboy boots.
It really depends on how loose their command is. Some command still allows crye multicam shit.
you're issued 4 uniforms when you enlist, 2 standard acu and 2 IHWCU, the hot weather doesn't have chest pockets and has buttons instead of zippers
never heard of anywhere not allowing you to wear whichever you want
>never heard of anywhere not allowing you to wear whichever you want
Probably turbofag units with massive sticks up your ass like 10th Mountain and the 82nd
When I was in you couldn't even rearrange the furniture in your barracks room to your liking. Everyone had to have their chair, desk and bed in the same exact layout. Clothes in your locker had to be in a similar position as well like in Basic.
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Anonymous
Also we weren't even allowed to wear our waffle tops under our uniforms ever even in winter.
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Anonymous
Also we weren't even allowed to wear our waffle tops under our uniforms ever even in winter.
The more i learn about American military culture, the more confused and disgusted I get.
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Anonymous
The military is organized subordination what else are you expecting? Even in my job, like my normal civilian job, I am required to wear a specific uniform, have my desk organized a certain way, keep all my files in designated positions AND tab all my files in a very certain way specific to the manager's liking. This is done so that if I'm sick, the guy subbing in for me can just walk into my office and do my job. I am also required to do this with other peoples' offices. Any deviation from this has the manager coming over and chewing you out like he did to privates when he was a marine.
I don't know what fantasy world you live in but this is typical for blue collar america and in the military it's all this plus rules on where you can walk, how you can walk, what you can hold when you walk, and allowable talking subjects. Disallowed subjects include anything that can get someone offended like sex, guns (outside of work), pay, videogames and phones (which are all locked in a central lockup). 90% of the talking is complaining about how boots are retarded while they are waiting to receive orders. The other 10% is the safety briefing or giving orders.
and then you go outside and none of this shit applies or matters or happened and someone gets raped and everyone has to turn in their car keys
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Anonymous
I'm a professional who works in an office and neither me nor anyone I work with has to do any of that shit. I just do my job, have my desk arranged any way I like and get payed.
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Anonymous
>have my desk organized a certain way, keep all my files in designated positions AND tab all my files in a very certain way specific to the manager's liking.
What hellish civilian job are you doing that requires this amount of micro management
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Anonymous
industrial garbage pickup
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Anonymous
You can be as confused and disgusted as you like, but you better be doing it in country we like.
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Anonymous
Jesus Christ was this a training unit? I've encountered dinner homosexualry in navy barracks (when I was a little sub-e5) but never anything to that degree.
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Not him but my batallion did it and we drove chemical trucks. Having a chair or a folder in the wrong place meant that someone could die if that information was needed and the driver would be personally responsible for that death. Also all incorrect file placement situations were listed on the bulletin board next to all the labeling mistakes (all of which had to be corrected before waste was sent out) and all the talking mistakes (XO only liked football, thought everything else was gay, and was jealous that some of us had families/lives outside of this). I was paid $4/hr for my service and it taught me how to pump septic tanks.
This was the sort of place where the warehouses all had lines we had to walk on, and the lines also went into the office, and deviating from this was an automatic yelling match for being a retard and making a dangerous situation that could get someone killed. When one guy tipped over a bunch of empty 551h1s with a forklift he took away saturday and made us all do inventory again. I won't even get started on mask policy, nothing to do with covid but he enforced that shit any time he deemed it was necessary.
I got a call from the army a few days ago asking me if I wanted to reenlist and I told them I enjoy sitting in a chair of my own choosing and using my own personal mask instead of an army provided mask. I also enjoy using a private, walled off toilet of my own choosing instead of going to my assigned toilet and my assigned sink on my assigned shit break.
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And in fairness to all this: the stuff we were dealing with was legitimately hazardous and could probably kill a few thousand people if there was an unintentional release. We were all on a fire battalion because if a fire happened, the fire dept explicitly said they would not come to save us because they don't want to be burned to death by radioactive corrosive acids with sand mixed into it. The sand is also radioactive and cannot be eaten, but it's less radioactive in a safe way that makes the fluid less combustible. Part of our job was loading it into drums so it could be sent to New Mexico. We had one allowed fun activity, pool, and it was taken away after someone ran over a water hose.
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Anonymous
>The sand is also radioactive and cannot be eaten
Couldn’t imagine working there
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only assigned toilets? we had to use our assigned soap and assigned toothbrushes because black people kept stealing them. We also used a lot of temps rented from the local prison since it was a big federal job. Also we had to drive to san francisco twice a week to pick up all the toxic sand the navy put there. I think all of treasure island is still noticably radioactive and it's slowly leeching into the bay, killing all the fish. I hope it kills all of oakland because naggers there don't know how to drive
we also had segregated gender restrooms because too many guys were missing and making it gross for the one female we had, and she was the only person who knew how to use the only computer in the complex. We had one telephone and could make calls for pizza if we were good. Longest time spent on duty was 103 days and all of it was either moving sand or taking sand samples into the lab.
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Anonymous
This shit is common in Infantry units that stay in garrison for too long.
Leadership starts caring more about the tightness of the creases in your uniforms rather than your shot grouping.
Eventually obsession with parade and ceremony take over and unit moral tanks.
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Anonymous
excuse me but honor guard is the most important thing an e-4 can do because it'll inspire more retarded children to become e-4s
What I'm saying is, being in the US military or any large industrial American job is a lot like being in a prison. But prisons at least have free food and beds.
I miss the old ACU design.
What's the difference?
Not that much
I see soldiers wearing all sorts of uniforms. This soldier doesn't have chest pockets.
One of them is wearing the hot weather uniform while the rest is wearing a9 mission blouse. But regular military(army/air force) just wear regular OCP cut. Anything else has to be approved by command if they think its within uniform code or they just don't care.
>regular military just wear regular ocp cut
Anon what the fuck are you talking about
There isn't a single Soldier in the entire Army who can't wear the hot weather uniform
Probably mean those regular ACUs that are not specialized in hot weather or flame resistance.
Right, but you can just wear them. You don't need permission, in any unit, anywhere.
People with stars on their chests aren't bound by the same uniform standard as everyone else.
I remember seeing a 4 star wearing literal fucking cowboy boots.
It really depends on how loose their command is. Some command still allows crye multicam shit.
You are allowed to buy your own uniforms as long as they are in the right pattern???
Technically yes, but you have to buy it at the exchange or retails that are approved by the military.
you're issued 4 uniforms when you enlist, 2 standard acu and 2 IHWCU, the hot weather doesn't have chest pockets and has buttons instead of zippers
never heard of anywhere not allowing you to wear whichever you want
>never heard of anywhere not allowing you to wear whichever you want
Probably turbofag units with massive sticks up your ass like 10th Mountain and the 82nd
When I was in you couldn't even rearrange the furniture in your barracks room to your liking. Everyone had to have their chair, desk and bed in the same exact layout. Clothes in your locker had to be in a similar position as well like in Basic.
Also we weren't even allowed to wear our waffle tops under our uniforms ever even in winter.
The more i learn about American military culture, the more confused and disgusted I get.
The military is organized subordination what else are you expecting? Even in my job, like my normal civilian job, I am required to wear a specific uniform, have my desk organized a certain way, keep all my files in designated positions AND tab all my files in a very certain way specific to the manager's liking. This is done so that if I'm sick, the guy subbing in for me can just walk into my office and do my job. I am also required to do this with other peoples' offices. Any deviation from this has the manager coming over and chewing you out like he did to privates when he was a marine.
I don't know what fantasy world you live in but this is typical for blue collar america and in the military it's all this plus rules on where you can walk, how you can walk, what you can hold when you walk, and allowable talking subjects. Disallowed subjects include anything that can get someone offended like sex, guns (outside of work), pay, videogames and phones (which are all locked in a central lockup). 90% of the talking is complaining about how boots are retarded while they are waiting to receive orders. The other 10% is the safety briefing or giving orders.
and then you go outside and none of this shit applies or matters or happened and someone gets raped and everyone has to turn in their car keys
I'm a professional who works in an office and neither me nor anyone I work with has to do any of that shit. I just do my job, have my desk arranged any way I like and get payed.
>have my desk organized a certain way, keep all my files in designated positions AND tab all my files in a very certain way specific to the manager's liking.
What hellish civilian job are you doing that requires this amount of micro management
industrial garbage pickup
You can be as confused and disgusted as you like, but you better be doing it in country we like.
Jesus Christ was this a training unit? I've encountered dinner homosexualry in navy barracks (when I was a little sub-e5) but never anything to that degree.
Not him but my batallion did it and we drove chemical trucks. Having a chair or a folder in the wrong place meant that someone could die if that information was needed and the driver would be personally responsible for that death. Also all incorrect file placement situations were listed on the bulletin board next to all the labeling mistakes (all of which had to be corrected before waste was sent out) and all the talking mistakes (XO only liked football, thought everything else was gay, and was jealous that some of us had families/lives outside of this). I was paid $4/hr for my service and it taught me how to pump septic tanks.
This was the sort of place where the warehouses all had lines we had to walk on, and the lines also went into the office, and deviating from this was an automatic yelling match for being a retard and making a dangerous situation that could get someone killed. When one guy tipped over a bunch of empty 551h1s with a forklift he took away saturday and made us all do inventory again. I won't even get started on mask policy, nothing to do with covid but he enforced that shit any time he deemed it was necessary.
I got a call from the army a few days ago asking me if I wanted to reenlist and I told them I enjoy sitting in a chair of my own choosing and using my own personal mask instead of an army provided mask. I also enjoy using a private, walled off toilet of my own choosing instead of going to my assigned toilet and my assigned sink on my assigned shit break.
And in fairness to all this: the stuff we were dealing with was legitimately hazardous and could probably kill a few thousand people if there was an unintentional release. We were all on a fire battalion because if a fire happened, the fire dept explicitly said they would not come to save us because they don't want to be burned to death by radioactive corrosive acids with sand mixed into it. The sand is also radioactive and cannot be eaten, but it's less radioactive in a safe way that makes the fluid less combustible. Part of our job was loading it into drums so it could be sent to New Mexico. We had one allowed fun activity, pool, and it was taken away after someone ran over a water hose.
>The sand is also radioactive and cannot be eaten
Couldn’t imagine working there
only assigned toilets? we had to use our assigned soap and assigned toothbrushes because black people kept stealing them. We also used a lot of temps rented from the local prison since it was a big federal job. Also we had to drive to san francisco twice a week to pick up all the toxic sand the navy put there. I think all of treasure island is still noticably radioactive and it's slowly leeching into the bay, killing all the fish. I hope it kills all of oakland because naggers there don't know how to drive
we also had segregated gender restrooms because too many guys were missing and making it gross for the one female we had, and she was the only person who knew how to use the only computer in the complex. We had one telephone and could make calls for pizza if we were good. Longest time spent on duty was 103 days and all of it was either moving sand or taking sand samples into the lab.
This shit is common in Infantry units that stay in garrison for too long.
Leadership starts caring more about the tightness of the creases in your uniforms rather than your shot grouping.
Eventually obsession with parade and ceremony take over and unit moral tanks.
excuse me but honor guard is the most important thing an e-4 can do because it'll inspire more retarded children to become e-4s
Some units don't really have that strict of a policy in regards to uniforms, especially when it comes to deployment.
The Velcro on those lower leg pockets always wore out. Glad they went with a button.
Mine is still hanging even after years of use.
It was all downhill from here anyway.
What I'm saying is, being in the US military or any large industrial American job is a lot like being in a prison. But prisons at least have free food and beds.