
Originally Posted by
The Thirsty Viking
Hear, Hear!
I got out about a year or so before they switched to that uniform (2007), And I am so happy. One of the guys in our Veterans Club at school (mostly a group to help eachother sort through issues with our GI Bills) is still Active Duty, and sometimes wears his uniform to school. When I first saw it from afar I thought he was a Marine.
I got out in '07 also, so I missed the new uniforms.
I might be one of about ten people who actually likes the new working uniform. It's not really the uniform I like as much as the fact that they finally got rid of working whites. I hated wearing them--my CNT's rarely went thirty minutes before there was something nasty on them. I never could wear white! And utilities going away was probably a good thing too in the long run. They weren't really all that well made and didn't hold up well. I always liked the working blues with garrison cap and wished they would just make it a year-round uniform.
I have a "Johnny Cash" top that I wound up never using, never sewed my crow or rocker on it either. I wear it with the kilt now and then, including once in a parade with US Army tartan and American Legion garrison cap. IMHO it looks better with the kilt than a dungaree or working white shirt. I still haven't gotten my Edzell kilt even after six years active duty and two years selres in the Navy. My stint in the Army was much shorter due to a training injury which has resulted in two operations, the second one coming next month.
My next kilt will most definitely be an Edzell.
The grass is greener on the other side of the fence...and it's usually greenest right above the septic tank.
Allen
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