We have murdered satire and we sit on its corpse like a throne

[sabotabby]

I was going to make a post about the latest Drug Fraud shenanigans, but you know what, I'm tired and this is funnier.

Space Force unveils service uniforms with camouflage design

 

That feel when your cute little galaxy dress and leggings would conceal you better than the American Space Force uniforms would conceal its members from aliens or whatever they think they're hiding from.

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[kore]

I wonder why. Money?

[springheel_jack]

I don't know if it's that. They just seemed to spend the last fifteen years badly fucking up the uniforms.

They did it with the camo too - someone decided that having the chocolate chips desert camo along with the woodland stuff was inefficient, so they went to that greyish "universal" pattern, which was supposed to be qually good in urban, woodland, and desert - it was bad in all three. Then they gave the troops going to Afghanistan a commercial "multicam" pattern, which I guess was better, but even still they came up with a new one, which is like multicam but isn't, and that's going to be the new "operational camo" for a fourth set of fatigues issued in the last twenty years.

Service dress uniforms changed twice in that period, too. They discontinued the Army Green which they used for, oh, forty or fifty years, and went to basically a replica of the Union Army dark blue dress uniform, which looked like they were all LARPers or war re-enactors. It was so ridiculous that that uniform lasted less than ten years. Now they're going back to green, but a retro one that looks like the WWII "pinks and greens", like Ike wore all the time. An officer serviing since 2001 will have gone through seven new sets of clothes to wear over that time.

[kore]

....hunh, now if I were a cynical bastard, I would wonder if there were private companies contracted to supply Army uniforms, who were getting some nice big juicy exclusive deals.