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Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform

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

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow7701:

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 takyon on Saturday January 25 2020, @01:48AM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday January 25 2020, @01:48AM (#948309) Journal

    It's similar to the Air Force Space Command emblem [wikimedia.org] as the article points out, but the trail that was added makes it look incredibly similar to the Star Trek one.

    If that was intentional, it is probably a good move. A cultural flex. I hope they keep it like that.

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  • (Score: 2) by EvilSS on Saturday January 25 2020, @04:06AM

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 25 2020, @04:06AM (#948344)
    The Star Trek emblem in that article is actually newer than the AF emblem the Space Command emblem is based on. It first showed up in a DS9 episode in the 90's. The military emblems using that style date back to the 80's. The Space Command brass didn't want to use the dual ellipse since it has it's roots in the US military with the nuclear programs, and the new service doesn't have anything to do with nuclear weapons.