A few of us in Louisiana have tried using US rank insignia on BDU field
jackets to do that. The response from leadership was tepid at best.
Because theat never stopped us before, we still use it...
-Loren C. Klein
Louisiana District Webmaster
rangerforums.com Administrator
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"Well I don't like to brag but I also have extensive experience with M1
Tank Platoon and Steel Beasts. Plus I once read a book about German
Panzer Aces." - Harold Jones from TankNet Military Forums on his tanking
experience other than his decade serving as an M1/M1A1 Abrams crewman.
I had originally thought that the Germans were not that "big" on the
uniform issue as I was lead to believe that there were still some
unresolved feelings about them left from WWII. Granted, the uniforms
that they had back then were really sharp in appearance , the issues
were not how they looked so much but who was wearing them. I was under
the understanding that the Germans don't like to discuss uniforms that
much because of unresolved feelings about uniforms in general.
Now as for a field uniform, Does not the RR leadership tell us that the
uniform is not to be worn on campouts? I never liked the idea much
because the uniform can serve for quick identification purposes. I think
that there should be an actual "field uniform for RR's and that they
should be a requirement at campouts. Again identification purposes. A
commander or person from another outpost can tell about a boy at a
glance by seeing which ratings he has achieved and to which outpost he
belongs to by looking at the numerals and District strip. Would that not
help a younger boy at a District, Regional pow-wow or the Camporama?
Personally, I'd call it convenient. A military uniform would have
identification on it even if it is on BDU's . Though we are not set to
be a paramilitary operation, it's not to say that we couldn't take a cue
from them.
Iron Mike
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