# Hooray!!! More shit to buy!! Thanks Army!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 6, 2006, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-more-shit-to-buy-thanks-army/359571 "2006-06-06T03:43:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-more-shit-to-buy-thanks-army/359571/81 "2006-06-07T23:40:23Z")
[QUOTE=Inigo Montoya] Witness the marvel that is the M-16a1 rifle, notorious for malfunctions during combat in Vietnam…and we’re still using it. [/QUOTE] I thought the military was using the M16A2 rifle? ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-more-shit-to-buy-thanks-army/359571/82 "2006-06-08T00:15:38Z")
[QUOTE=Monty] I thought the military was using the M16A2 rifle? [/QUOTE] The most common individual weapon is the M16A2. However, even the M16A1 is a reliable and effective weapon by most objective criteria, having an undeservedly bad reputation by due to problems with earlier prototypes. The myth of the shoddy M16 is information that was obsolete 30 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-more-shit-to-buy-thanks-army/359571/83 "2006-06-08T00:35:11Z")
[QUOTE=Monty] I thought the military was using the M16A2 rifle? [/QUOTE] Mostly M16A4s and M4s now. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-more-shit-to-buy-thanks-army/359571/84 "2006-06-08T00:42:23Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] “Let’s All Look More Like Marines.” The Army gets service blues with light blue pants. The Navy gets khaki shirts with dark pants. The Air Force gets either a high-collar tunic or a belted jacket. _Everybody_ gets digi-camo to wear almost all the time. But only the Marines get to keep the same sharp uniforms they’ve had for decades virtually unchanged. [/QUOTE] And what they _did_ change (digi-cammies) they had the sense to let someone in an entire other country try the concept first. ---
**Author:** ![MamaHen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@MamaHen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MamaHen)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-more-shit-to-buy-thanks-army/359571/85 "2006-06-08T01:18:05Z")
I just went through the whole buying new ACU’s experience with my husband. The ACU’s cost about the same as the BDU’s and so do the boots. The insignia cost more but that was about all. We live near Fort Bragg so we were able to hit clothing sales and the military discount stores for the cheaper boots. Personally I miss jungle greens, guys looked so hot in jungle greens. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-more-shit-to-buy-thanks-army/359571/86 "2006-06-09T14:29:39Z")
I still have not seen a photo of this new uniform. The US Army website is one of the worst I have ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-more-shit-to-buy-thanks-army/359571/87 "2006-06-10T23:38:00Z")
[QUOTE=askeptic] Sheesh JR, you make it almost sound like Haliburton has the military clothing concession… [/QUOTE] Well, polyester _is_ made from oil. Pretty neat trick, really: assemble a large army and then invade a country in order to secure oil supplies from which to clad the same army in order to occupy a country to secure oil supplies from which to clad same the army in order to… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-more-shit-to-buy-thanks-army/359571.md?page=4)