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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
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday January 24 2020, @10:48PM (1 child)
If they are doing a covert mission in space, they will wear a spacesuit. They can just make that black. Unless it absorbs sunlight + lasers and kills them faster.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday January 24 2020, @11:08PM
A good hazing ritual would be to wrap all second-lieutenants in gold foil satellite-style and post them up for bitch-duty like CQ.
When I worked at the shipyards, I would have to be let on board by an ensign who was being hazed by similar bitch-duty. I noticed that one of his collar bars was green and the other was red. Knowing the rank insignia at that time, I asked him why his bars were colored like Christmas lights? He answered, rolling his eyes, "It's because I don't know my left from my right."