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As usual, the new postsecret update is great. I particularly like the wal-mart one. I love wal-mart and I can never understand the arguments against it. It pays decent wage, offers low prices.. hell, it even sells cheaper gas and SAVES gas (and thus the environment, right?) by being a good one-stop-shop kind of place. It's too bad they censor their CD's, but hey. You can still go to Best Buy for Eminem.


There's a new uniform out for the Army. It's the Army Combat Uniform (ACU) which is replacing the Battle Dress Uniform (BDU). It's still in transition but my unit should be switching to them when we redeploy back to Fort Bragg.

Here's the old uniform:

http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/img/media/638_l.jpg


And here's the new one:

http://www-tradoc.army.mil/pao/fact_sheets/ACU/ACU2.jpg


The digital pattern is weird, but actualy blends in better. And the lack of black in the uniform is supposed to catch the eye less. I like the pockets and I'm glad we're adopting the suede leather boots like wear with our DCU's (Desert Camoflauge Uniform), but this new one is supposed to be wash-and-wear. You're not supposed to iron it. I think after a few washings it's going to look shitty. I've seen a lot of people whose name tapes are all bendy and it wrinkles the whole front of the overshirt. And velcro? I mean it's good for somethings but there's a reason velcro shoes stopped being popular after the 80's. I imagine if you crawl around in the dirt enough all of your velcro shit starts to come off.

Overall I think it's good but I'll bet they'll make slight changes to the uniform in the next year or so and we'll all have to buy new ones if we don't want to look like shit. And oh yeah, whereas a set of BDU's costs about $45, a set of ACU's costs like $80. Yeah.. So I think I'll just buy two to start out.

Like you care. Moving on! Next on the agenda is the end of this post.