Army tries "pinks and greens"

[chuckman]

My current understanding is that they do not in the Army, and unfortunately my son's on a deployment so can't ping him. Maybe other Army officers currently serving anything comment.

What I do know is that the shift to the multicam ACU's was totally out of his pocket no compensation. Same for jump boots, different Beret, etcetera.

He's probably spent a couple of grand in the first two years as an officer on uniforms and required gear, and that's excluding Ranger school boots, uniforms, gear that gets trashed.

I do recall West Point had mandatory saving for the cheapest minimal set of ASUs for commissioning. It was not a stipend, it was a forced savings hold back. To get the ones you really wanted was substantially more. Pretty expensive for young LT who will wear that uniform four to five times a year if that. Certain School graduations(bolc), and hail / farewell gatherings. One unit ball a year.

They virtually never wear the ASU in Garrison unless it's a formal and public function. But even a lot of those are in ACU.

I was in the Navy, and I was commissioned in 2003, so yeah, things may be different since that time and certainly in the Army. But I sure feel for your son, I know what it's like to spend $2,000 on uniforms that will either hang in a closet, or be outdated in the near future. I had some Navy uniforms I was required to have, that I never wore.

[Spiffums]

Makes me think of Steve Trevor on the TV show Wonder Woman.

[Sry0fcr]

Just reminds me how goddamned awful the current ASU is...