in May, but nothing. My son is in the army so I'll ask him tonight about it.

My son told me the issue was not brought up at the last meeting of the Uniform Board. Seems there is a lot of objections seeing that they officially adopted the ASU...Army Standard Uniform, which allows the dress blues to be worn without the jacket. Different trousers and my son it wasn't cheap to convert. I guessing the modified ASU is much like our Class B's with the Class A trousers with the green shirt, tie and rank denoted with the epaulets.

Who ever picked them had to have hated the Army

My mom picked the Greens

She’s a Russian isn’t she.

She was in the Navy.

On Veterans Day. Should be issued in 2020

We're going to have a superb-looking Army again...

The new light-colored pants will show coffee stains. So the old uniform is more practical. When I wore the greens, we didn't have berets. It was a choice of garrison cap (fondly known by another name) or the bus-driver flat-top hat.

retired in 2015 wearing Blues as an O-6. I like the Blues, but as our formal uniform. Much rather wear the Pinks & Greens as a day to day uniform....but as a retiree I don't have a dog in the fight anymore....!

... is they have severely shrunk since I left the Army in '68. How does that happen?

No one. Tan or kaki never pink. wikipedia can call it whatever they want. The army called them dress greens.

The style goes back to WWII and Korea.

My father called them pinks and greens. So did the old calvary sergeant in my Army Reserve unit.

Wikipedia didn't just pull the term out of their ass...

The picture you show is what i wore in the regular army in 1969 but with green pant and its not pink. Find a picture with the pink and i may accept that our Army wore Pink. Prove it. You do know wikipedia can be edited by users right?

If pink was inappropriate for soldiers, no one told Germany's tank crewmen, for whom pink has been the branch color since before WWII.

And it was the wearers of the uniform themselves who called the trousers 'pinks'. In the old WWII color photographs, they have a slight pinkish hue, which is distinctive from the sand-colored, more traditional khaki color.

Here's a good example, with the the three officers on the right, with slightly newer uniform trousers having the pinkish hue that gave them the nickname you seem to dislike and refuse to believe wikipedia didn't invent:

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