Yeah, but a Battalion Commander can decide it makes his troops look too much like OD Winnie The Pooh...he'll just be seen as a douche....which he probably was before this.
Commander Bans Army-Issued Warm, Comfy Fleece Jacket as Winter Approaches
A battalion commander is forbidding soldiers under his command from wearing their Army-issued fleece jackets while on a rotation in South Korea.www.military.com
It's not the first time a debate over the fleece has popped up, as questions sporadically surface about whether the jacket is primarily intended to be an undergarment worn under other cold weather gear. Though Army rules make it clear the jacket can be worn as an outer garment and are otherwise generally loose on when and where troops can wear it.
A top Army official overseeing uniform rules squashed any of that confusion back in January.
"It's an outer garment," Sgt. Maj. Ashleigh Sykes, the top enlisted leader for uniform policy said on Twitter in January. "There is hook and loop for name tapes, rank, and US Army to make that obvious."
Back in my day, unless it was super cold and windy (like under 20*), we would frequently wear the field jacket liner under the BDU blouse without the field jacket (if it was our choice)...we thought we looked tough. We probably just looked fat.
But the BDUs were the best and remain the best.
