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Our woke military is aces at designing comic opera uniforms;  not so hot at winning wars.

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T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Wednesday, September 22, AD 2021 5:43am

Not in Outer Space.

Not in China.

Not in Iran.

Not among thousands of hajjis they’re importing.

They have located and identified the enemy and they are here and they is You and Me.

Frank
Frank
Wednesday, September 22, AD 2021 5:55am

Today’s “I’m old enough to remember” saying:
I’m old enough to remember when the Space Force was ridiculed and condemned for being Trump’s evil plan to nuke China, our oldest and bestest allies, from orbit. Or something like that.
Now we get, as you so perfectly put it, Don, uniforms straight out of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Clown show is right.

Phillip
Phillip
Wednesday, September 22, AD 2021 6:03am

To boldly fail where no one has failed before.

Nekofanatic
Nekofanatic
Wednesday, September 22, AD 2021 6:18am

They are trying their hardest to imitate the Star Trek dress uniforms without making it so glaringly obvious a non-fan will notice.

Frank
Frank
Wednesday, September 22, AD 2021 6:19am

Eeeuw. That skirt guy was one of many reasons that I stopped watching any of the Star Trek sequels. All I need is my DVD set of the original.

Phillip
Phillip
Wednesday, September 22, AD 2021 6:29am

“Just as long as they don’t bring in the skant for men:”

What has been seen cannot be unseen!

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Wednesday, September 22, AD 2021 8:00am

The US Navy foisted the Zumwalt uniforms on us enlisted persons from 73 to 86.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/709317010048401207/

Thankfully tradition was restored:

http://www.uniforms-4u.com/p-us-navy-enlisted-white-jumper-uniform-18676.aspx
http://www.uniforms-4u.com/p-us-navy-enlisted-dress-blue-crackerjack-3881.aspx

Well, not completely. The US Navy still does asinine things to excellence (to be exceeded only by the US Space Force, obviously):

https://www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/References/US-Navy-Uniforms/Uniform-Regulations/Chapter-3/Male-Enlisted/Working/

BTW, notice that in the PR photo at CNN, the black woman is out in front first.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/21/politics/us-space-force-uniforms/index.html

You can’t have a white man out in front any longer. That’s racist and a micro-aggression.

All us old time submarine sailors find the new Space Force uniforms infinitely amusing. Now we have a service branch to pick on besides the Air Force. And BTW, down under at a 1000 feet, it doesn’t matter if you’re a black woman (yup, women are on subs now with the predictable results) or a white man; if you don’t obey orders and do your job per procedure, then you better learn to breathe sea water.

David Spaulding
David Spaulding
Wednesday, September 22, AD 2021 8:41am

What’s the big whoop about mimicking Hollywood for uniforms? Millions were spent to develop those styles and they look cool. Image matters and drawing a connection between SciFi and the Space Force seems like an excellent way to recruit the right sort of folks. Scoff if we must but a Space Force is a good idea and will one day have some of the most coveted positions in the military. Besides, so much of the technology today was conceptualized (consciously or not) through 1950s – 1980s SciFi, I should think we’d be open to keeping that connection solid. I don’t think this is at all embarrassing and only wish the U.S. government gave as much thought to border security as it does to uniforms.

David Spaulding
David Spaulding
Wednesday, September 22, AD 2021 9:04am

Well said.

Art Deco
Art Deco
Wednesday, September 22, AD 2021 9:20am

I’m not seeing what the issue is with the uniforms displayed. Not sure if these are meant to be working uniforms or dress blues.

The problem isn’t the uniforms. The problem is that at an indeterminate point in the past, standards for promotion favored adherence to university-generated norms over conventional military norms. Not sure when this began, but the controversies over Spencer Rapone suggest that the decay of West Point began around 2004. Kurt Schlicter has suggested that the thing to do is to cashier the flag ranks en bloc and invite a few to remain.

Tim
Tim
Thursday, September 23, AD 2021 10:31pm

The Steve Carell comedy Space Force has an episode where the First Lady designs uniforms and Steve (as the commander in chief of the force) has to deal with it. PS Patton. designed the first tank crew uniforms but I don’t think they were used.

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