DocIllinois
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More of a silly dig at your rep for being supersized.
Sleeves were indeed tight when rolled, even for average bodied dudes like me.
The Army's continued desire to be more like Marines...
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More of a silly dig at your rep for being supersized.
Sleeves were indeed tight when rolled, even for average bodied dudes like me.
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Serious question - I've seen the Army with rolled sleeves before, but always with the sleeves pulled upward, almost accordion like. I am wondering why they are going toward the Marine Corps like "inside out" roll, that I've never seen in Army before.
Probably because somebody actually took a few seconds and thought "hey this is pretty stupid the way we roll the sleeves up" we should stop this stupid shit.
Or at least I like to believe that is what happened.
Turn sleeve inside out and pull cuff up to arm pit, roll sleeve material to cuff, flip cuff down to cover rolled up material. Squeeze arms through stupid size whole and let arms go numb from lack of circulation. And it was always some dickhead in formation that would ask "hey sgt, can we roll our sleeves" no dick head, just take your fucking blouse off.
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Someone, at one point said the BDU's started out like the ACU's....sleeves down, no starch...then look what we were forced to do.
I had 12 year old girl arms and rolling sleeves was tight on me.
But Miss Kim always had my back, she starched the BDU with a spray made from Tungsten and superglue....
Give it a year or two and the ACU will have to be starched....if they are still a uniform by then...:wall:
I had 12 year old girl arms and rolling sleeves was tight on me.
But Miss Kim always had my back, she starched the BDU with a spray made from Tungsten and superglue....
Give it a year or two and the ACU will have to be starched....if they are still a uniform by then...:wall:
Very briefly in '08 or '09 I saw starched ABU's on Bagram. Since I spent most of my time around the AF I don't recall if the Army did the same, but I know I saw a lot of ACU's that were heavily ironed.
I told my guys if they wanted to starch their BDU's they could do so to one pair and one pair only. That crap practically glows under NVG's and most of my guys only ironed a set for formation. I think the only time I starched more than one uniform was in OCS and those two were my display uniforms.
Starch on a field uniform is stupid to the nth degree. Leave it up to the fobbits and clueless leadership to require such a monstrosity.
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I don't know why topic this makes me laugh so fucking hard.
Terminal Lance - Terminal Lance “Rolled Up II”
Terminal Lance - Terminal Lance “Rolled Up II”
Surely muppet arms isn't claiming to have large biceps?
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IIRC, regs stated sleeves could only be rolled up no more than an inch above the angle of the elbow. Course we weren't power-lifters back then, we drank, smoked and fought sailors. 
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