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Rifles Units, Various fancy hats across the country, Bands to add a few more.Kilts and their related jackets and hats. Two or so orders of dress exclusively for MilCols. Weird hats in Sudbury.
Rifles Units, Various fancy hats across the country, Bands to add a few more.Kilts and their related jackets and hats. Two or so orders of dress exclusively for MilCols. Weird hats in Sudbury.
I thought those came from grants.Kilts and their related jackets and hats. Two or so orders of dress exclusively for MilCols. Weird hats in Sudbury.
There has been a move to direct public funding, and the grants are public money as well (and are set at rates that haven't changed in 30+ years).I thought those came from grants.
Someone quite high up the bureaucratic-'leadership' food chain decided thatTime to cull the orders of dress and remove all public support for anything but the basics. If a unit can't find sugar daddies to pay for hats, skirts and jackets outside the basic DEU, you revert to the basic DEU.
Swap the rifles for rods and that looks like it could be two guys waiting for unoccupied outhouses at a fishing camp.Someone quite high up the bureaucratic-'leadership' food chain decided thatthis
is a suitable order of dress to guard the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier. It seems to me that
this
is, also, therefore, the "basic DEU" for the Army and, one assumes, there is something similar for the Navy and RCAF. Let's leave shirts and ties (and kilts) and shiny boots behind, in the 19th and 20th centuries, and become he first post modern military.
Someone quite high up the bureaucratic-'leadership' food chain decided thatthis
is a suitable order of dress to guard the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier. It seems to me that
this
is, also, therefore, the "basic DEU" for the Army and, one assumes, there is something similar for the Navy and RCAF. Let's leave shirts and ties (and kilts) and shiny boots behind, in the 19th and 20th centuries, and become he first post modern military.
Why on earth does anyone "need" a jacket and tie to prepare for or fight a war? IFThat is an awful looking spectacle.
But, I feel like you are going to extremes. No one is saying get rid of jackets and ties, we are saying have a basic issues for the all the elements, and then the flights of fancy (hats, skirts and jackets outside the basic DEU) are funded by the units and associations.
We partially tried to be the first post modern military with the last iteration of the dress and grooming regs.Someone quite high up the bureaucratic-'leadership' food chain decided thatthis
is a suitable order of dress to guard the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier. It seems to me that
this
is, also, therefore, the "basic DEU" for the Army and, one assumes, there is something similar for the Navy and RCAF. Let's leave shirts and ties (and kilts) and shiny boots behind, in the 19th and 20th centuries, and become he first post modern military.
Why on earth does anyone "need" a jacket and tie to prepare for or fight a war? IFweyou need a ceremonial uniform then it should be issued, with all the bells and whistles, and maintained at public expense - if we, the public, the taxpayers, cannot do that then I suggest that we have decided that you don't need anything beyond that "awful looking spectacle."
To be serious, I guess (because I've not seen their uniform(s) except maybe when bundled up out-of-doors) that the members in the photo are uniformed Canadian Rangers? And that the uniform they are wearing is basically all they have (subject to season and weather)?Why on earth does anyone "need" a jacket and tie to prepare for or fight a war? IFweyou need a ceremonial uniform then it should be issued, with all the bells and whistles, and maintained at public expense - if we, the public, the taxpayers, cannot do that then I suggest that we have decided that you don't need anything beyond that "awful looking spectacle."
Someone quite high up the bureaucratic-'leadership' food chain decided thatthis
is a suitable order of dress to guard the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier. It seems to me that
this
is, also, therefore, the "basic DEU" for the Army and, one assumes, there is something similar for the Navy and RCAF. Let's leave shirts and ties (and kilts) and shiny boots behind, in the 19th and 20th centuries, and become he first post modern military.
I think the Israelis have that covered for the past…uh…few decades.Someone quite high up the bureaucratic-'leadership' food chain decided thatthis
is a suitable order of dress to guard the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier. It seems to me that
this
is, also, therefore, the "basic DEU" for the Army and, one assumes, there is something similar for the Navy and RCAF. Let's leave shirts and ties (and kilts) and shiny boots behind, in the 19th and 20th centuries, and become he first post modern military.
The IDF know what is appropriate for each situation:I think the Israelis have that covered for the past…uh…few decades.