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posted by martyb on Friday January 24 2020, @09:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the priorities? dept.

Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform:

The official Twitter account of the month-old military service posted[*] a teaser photograph Friday night appearing to show a variant of the Operational Camouflage Pattern used by the Army and Air Force.

Above the left breast pocket in Navy embroidery reads: U.S. Space Force.

[...] The uniform depicts four-star rank, indicating that the uniform belongs to Gen. John "Jay" Raymond, the first commander of U.S. Space Force. It also has the Command Space Operations badge embroidered above the service nametape.

On the left sleeve of the uniform is the United States Space Command patch, denoting the military's newest combatant command, formed shortly before Space Force itself activated Dec. 20. And above that patch is a full-color American flag patch -- a departure from the muted flags that soldiers and airmen typically wear on their right shoulders in OCP uniform.

Many questions remain. Space Force has yet to announce a rank structure, a full system of uniforms or even what to call members of the new service. In a Thursday briefing, Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said Raymond was developing a plan regarding every detail.

[*] https://twitter.com/SpaceForceDoD/status/1218335200964464650


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  • (Score: 2) by Unixnut on Friday January 24 2020, @10:44PM (6 children)

    by Unixnut (5779) on Friday January 24 2020, @10:44PM (#948203)

    Maybe they should just adopt the uniforms from the Stargate TV series?

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Friday January 24 2020, @10:51PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday January 24 2020, @10:51PM (#948210) Journal
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 24 2020, @11:58PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 24 2020, @11:58PM (#948246)

    Or another show? [twitter.com]

    Patrick Stewart must be having a meltdown.

    • (Score: 5, Funny) by SpockLogic on Saturday January 25 2020, @12:13AM (3 children)

      by SpockLogic (2762) on Saturday January 25 2020, @12:13AM (#948253)

      Best comment I've seen so far was "Trump's administration is kind of like an episode of Star Trek where every person is wearing a red shirt."

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @12:30AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @12:30AM (#948265)

        The responses are great if claims of copyright infringement bogus. The federation logo was based on an old NASA logo and LOL [twitter.com]

      • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday January 25 2020, @12:48AM

        by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Saturday January 25 2020, @12:48AM (#948276) Journal
        Well, with all the goofy patches it certainly qualifies as camouflage - if you're wandering around the mall trying to look like a space cadet. Find someone wearing a Superman or Batman outfit and nobody would ever suspect you.
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      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Saturday January 25 2020, @04:37AM

        by Grishnakh (2831) on Saturday January 25 2020, @04:37AM (#948352)

        >Best comment I've seen so far was "Trump's administration is kind of like an episode of Star Trek where every person is wearing a red shirt."

        I assume they meant TOS, because in TNG the commanders wore red.

        Also, I think that comment is a little insulting to the red-shirts. They weren't shown to be totally incompetent, they were just at the wrong place at the wrong time over and over. If you want to make a Star Trek comparison, I'd say that administration resembles a group of incompetent Ferengi more than anything.