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Originally Posted by Plan9
Canine, the only difference between the care of BDUs/DCUs and ACUs is AR 670-1.
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I guess we come from different generations. I spent most of my time in BDUs and DCUs and can't stand ACUs, especially the zippers and Velcro.
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I'm exactly the opposite. I joined in early 2007, which was just as they were beginning to integrate ACUs into the army. I was issued BDUs in Basic Training but as soon as I finished airborne school and went to my first unit, they insisted that we new guys wear ACUs only. So I've got very little personal experience with BDUs.
That said, I haven't really had much trouble with the velcro. I've been deployed for six months now, and admittedly almost half of that has been on a fob (although I am in a combat-arms MOS), but in the months I was doing patrols, I never had any problems with my velcro patches. Not that I'm defending them against traditional sewn-on patches, but they haven't given me any reason to really have strong opinions on them. I might be mistaken, but I think that parts of the MC uniform are sewn-on, like nametapes and branch.