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Originally Posted by Slims
The Velro on ACU's is perfect for the office warrior, but is absolutely useless for people in the field.
It sticks to things it isn't supposed to causing a constant distraction, does not secure pockets well (try walking around with a grenade in your cargo pocket, there is no way to keep it closed on the ACU), wears out quickly and is generally a mute point as SOF Units don't wear it on missions and Conventional Units have to wear all their patches anyways (so why have velcro?).
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Most guys who have grenades carry them in a grenade pouch with a non-velcroed plastic clip, which is attached to their IOTV. You're asking for trouble if you put a grenade in your cargo pocket, velcroed or not. And the SOF guys out here actually use MC already (velcro and all) - its the non-SOF that use the digi patterns. But I agree with your main point, velcro is indeed useless. Velcro is minorly useful in that you don't have to resew every time a patch comes off or you earn a skill badge/tab, but thats about as far as its use goes.