MARSOC going to MARPAT uniforms...

[Devildoc]

...ditching multicam. Is this a thing? I mean, is this a Marine-centric order to make Marines Marine again, or a legit force-shaping policy need? I have zero opinion on this. I just found this weird.

MARSOC Ditching MultiCam and Going Back to MARPAT and OD 782 Gear | Soldier Systems Daily.

 

[Gunz]

Apparently, it’s to align Raider utilities with the rest of the Marine Corps. You can be “special” but you can’t dress “special.” The directive also requires Raiders to wear standard footwear.

Not necessarily making Marines Marines again, but certainly making Marines conform to Corps-wide dress standards.

 

[Devildoc]

Apparently, it’s to align Raider utilities with the rest of the Marine Corps. You can be “special” but you can’t dress “special.” The directive also requires Raiders to wear standard footwear.

Not necessarily making Marines Marines again, but certainly making Marines conform to Corps-wide dress standards.

We had a platoon sgt who said, paraphrasing, 'in the field dress how you want, wear what you want. In garrison, you are 100% Marine.' I know I was a corpsman, but still.

I will admit it's still weird to me when I go the SWCS schoolhouse and see cadre in whatever pants, t-shirts, and ball caps, but that's their house, their rules. I am not judging.

 

[Box]

Its ok - you can judge.
Judge away.

Its hard to yell at the troops about "standards" when the cadre cant even figure out what the uniform of the day is.
...because muh' standards

 

[Devildoc]

Its ok - you can judge.
Judge away.

Its hard to yell at the troops about "standards" when the cadre cant even figure out what the uniform of the day is.
...because muh' standards

I appreciate that but not my house, not my rules. Now if I go aboard Camp Lejeune or Stone Bay, yeah, I judge with judgy eyes.

 

[Marauder06]

There should be one common ground uniform for all of the military services. Period.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Apparently, it’s to align Raider utilities with the rest of the Marine Corps. You can be “special” but you can’t dress “special.” The directive also requires Raiders to wear standard footwear.

If you are told you are “special” enough times, you will begin to believe it. See also: SEALs

Reading through the official report about the recent loss of the two SEALs, nothing has really changed in the Navy.

Personally, I’m glad the Corps is buttoning things up a bit.

 

[Devildoc]

If you are told you are “special” enough times, you will begin to believe it. See also: SEALs

Reading through the official report about the recent loss of the two SEALs, nothing has really changed in the Navy.

Personally, I’m glad the Corps is buttoning things up a bit.

I understand, especially having recently gone through Stone Bay. It looks like Smoke Bomb Hill (Bragg) with all of the arm sleeves, multicam, ball caps, etc. Main side (Lejeune) is still main side.

 

[Hillclimb]

What exactly is the Corps buttoning up?

I think there's psychology in wearing what your PNF wears. Make them feel there's less of a barrier or difference. Feel validated. We dress the same/train the same. Why do we have to have the usmc billboard digital pattern? Commanders must lose their mind when we're doing 2x/3x things and have to wear civilian clothes for operational things.

The fact anyone gives a shit that much about what another group wears, will always blow my mind. This is what you spend time thinking about/making policy for? Ball caps emotionally hijack you enough that it keeps you up at night?

But sure. Let's spend another $11 million dollars changing uniforms for the formations. Meanwhile, I have to beg for 100k of funding for a VBSS package for 4 days, because we were a mountain team, and 2 months before deploying were expected to become VBSS experts to train a special boat squadron sof pnf. Plot twist. We did. And we did it in multicams

Edit: sorry I'm late to the rodeo. This is my bi-annual shadowspear seagull login. And I haven't had my coffee yet