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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 The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 25 2020, @01:02AM (4 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday January 25 2020, @01:02AM (#948279) Homepage Journal

    That's my one worry if the US ever faces an invasion on its own soil. At least half the soldiers will be conditioned to not shoot anything in orange from their hunting days.

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday January 25 2020, @01:29AM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Saturday January 25 2020, @01:29AM (#948290) Journal

    Camouflage for the prez, huh?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @01:32AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @01:32AM (#948293)

    That's odd, the hunters around here all seem to shoot each other, with or without orange clothing. Occasionally they shoot an innocent bystander too...

    But, really, who the f cares what Space Force wears, I want to know what the hell they are supposed to be doing.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @02:06AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @02:06AM (#948314)

      What are they supposed to be doing? Why making another line item in the military budget of course! These re-used uniforms probably cost a couple million to design, 50 mil to produce the first batch, and the name tags will be special space-proof plastic coming in at $3.5k each.

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 25 2020, @11:22AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 25 2020, @11:22AM (#948440) Journal

    No worries. Some of us are color blind, some more of us aren't blind, but just don't notice color much. Statistics used to be that 1 in 4 males were at least a little bit color blind. I remember a discussion that challenged those stats, but I'll stick with them.