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I've worn the old green camo bdu's while in the Army. I liked them. The where very comfortable. I don't understand what they mean by saving money by not taking a uniform to the cleaners or shining boots. Taking your bdu's to the cleaners was your choice. Usually everyone ironed and starched their own stuff. Shining boots only cost the few bucks for a can of Kiwi and the brush which was nothing. Now if you paid someone to shine your boots hey that was up to you again. I don't like the idea of zippers myself. A zipper can snag and get caught. And velcro has a tendency to pick up all kinds of fuzz and junk. Low crawling through brush you'd end up with all kinds of things stuck to you. I always liked the large green buttons on the old bdu's. If one ripped off it was easy to pick up new ones and sew them on yourself. Saving money by using velcro on patches is weird. The only time you spent money on the sewing was when you first picked up the uniform and then you only changed your unit patch when you went to a new duty station. Usually they would sew the unit patch on for free. $88 dollars per uniform? Does that mean per top and bottom or for the whole set? Bdu tops and bottoms cost around $30 and up for each. If the new uniforms are $88 per top and $88 per bottom thats very expensive. I don't know what a moisture wicking t-shirt means, but I'm pretty sure its more expensive than the plain brown t-shirts I was issued. The rank is put at the same spot as where we wore our rank on our Gortex jackets. And the collar looks uncomfortable as hell. I'm glad I got out before they made everyone wear berets. I liked the old softcap.
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