When I was in, we had only 3 uniform changes: First one bummed me out, they transitioned us out of sateens entirely. I liked sateen, it looked sharper than cammies. Oh well, I had clothes I could work on my car in. We still figured out how to iron our cammies to try and make them a little bit tidier. It's a Marine thing
Couldn't starch the camie covers, though. Drove us nuts. A lot of us did anyway.
Second, they went from white to green t-shirts. The first few iterations of those tended to turn brown after a few washes. The dye they used would come out like crazy in the wash, too. Wash ANYthing with them, it would be ruined. Looked terrible, too.
Last, they went to the Sam Spade type trench-coat. Those I liked. Looked very nice, although over cammies, not so much. Did come in handy for the night we flashed the Staff Duty in Iwakuni, though. Luckily for us, she was a good sport. Got a date with her to see Top Gun the next week-end, which was cool. It had just come out, and the Base theater was packed, unfortunately...
Anyway, after I got out, they started changing all kinds of things, for all the services. I was sure glad I missed that. I hate to think about having to buy all kinds of new uniform items all the time. I'd go broker!
Have fun all!
Pat☺
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