Hear, hear! Rumor was the Gulf War mediots (media idiots)were confusing briefers and that’s when the edict came down. Nametags AND the word “U.S. MARINES”. The Marines also wavered back and forth between V Neck and Crew Neck white tee shirts with the Charlie uniform (khaki shirt, green trou) once too many times for my liking, and the issuing of brown tee shirts to wear with woodland camoflauge utility uniforms (instead of green tees) was a bad thing, in my opinion. While we’re at it, the Black Beret Army thing is wrong on many levels.
Coolest- The floppy desert boonie hats that we wore in Desert Shield/Desert Storm. During the war, HQ in Dhahran attempted to send us “Official Instructions For Proper Wear Of Desert Boonie Hat”. I guess some anal-retentive got peeved at us troopies wearing them in all sorts of imaginative ways. My favorite was the “Aussie”-style look.
With an impending ground war with Iraq brewing, who really was going to give a rat’s ass about “Proper Wear of Boonie Hat?” What the hell else could’ve they done to me? Maroon me in the desert in the middle of a war? Ship me to a place even more fucked up than central Saudi Arabia? 
Worst- The Air Force experimented with stupid “aircrew-style” patches for everyone and removed our chevrons. The lettering rubbed off quickly in sustained ground operations and made us unidentifiable. Finally the braniacs in HQ USAF decided that they were intended for aircrew only (duh) and gave us back our chevrons and unit patches. Gee…you think that’s why they’re called “aircrew name patches”?