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If you run for office you could (in theory) make the rules (but you'd have to be made minister of National Defense). Anyway, I'm wondering if they'd gone with a dark blue uniform for all (the army did have dress blues at one time) instead of the ugly green, might have gone a bit better...

Getting back to the uniform topic (sorry), I wonder if things might have gone a bit more smoothly if the CF greens hadn't been adopted during unification. There seemed to be a bit (or a lot) of resistance to the new uniform, which may have been lessened if they had chosen a different colour. I...

Strange. Mormons that I've met have been very anti-communist (I assumed it was part of their doctrine).

BTW, I guess to be more historically accurate, I should've stated, dark blue-grey for regular dress and khaki-tan for summer dress. The RCAF wore light green shirts with the khaki-tans. ;)

With the Army getting old style khaki uniforms, how long do you think it will be before the RCAF decides that they should go back to their traditional uniform colour (i.e. dark blue-grey)? ;)

Who's the guy on the left in the picture? Is he Canadian or from another military? He seems to be wearing the same collar insignia as the others, so is he wearing the new CA uniform or is he from another Commonwealth country?

@ EITS - I wasn't talking about defunding, I think that the CAF needs more money, not less, but we know that's not that likely. I guess I let my prejudices get the better of me when I wrote that. My father being in the RCAF before unification and then seeing what happened after has affected my...

What I meant by not a full fledged air force was that we don't have all capacities that the larger counties (population-wise) have, such as strategic bombers, ground attack, etc. The RCAF just buys one multi-role combat aircraft to do as much as they can. I consider helos like the Griffon and...

Just thoght I'd throw this idea out there. This change over to a new DEU will cost a lot of money so maybe this should be used kind of like the old CF greens and have every person in land based occupations and roles have to wear it. Naval personnel and sea based trades continue to wear the RCN...

So can we assume that the new khaki army DEU will look like (or similar to) the one in the Aussie pic?

This thread on Army uniform changes sure has gone of the rails :p, not that it's any of my business, I guess. Carry on. ;)

I wasn't referring to any specific change, as I'm not familiar with them. Just saying I would be opposed to changing dress regs for people to look more individual or different from everyone else. Different coloured hair as well as piercings, etc. should be enough for a person to express their...

Yes sorry, brain fart. Typed NCO when I meant NCMs. Though the square rig looks sharp and definitely more navy-like, it would cost a lot more to go back to that. I don't expect that to happen.

I can understand the military trying to get more recruits by appealing to a wider section of the public, hence the change in regs for hair, piercings, tatoos,etc. What I don't agree with is any changes to uniform regs, uniforms are supposed to be just that - UNIFORM (the same for everyone), but...

That reminds me, bring back the square rig uniform for the RCN NCOs!! :p

OK, didn't realize that. Thanks for the info. Don't agree with units wearing both cloth shoulder flashes and the metal pin-on shoulder titles. Get rid of the metal pin-ons, more expensive to produce and the cloth shoulder flashes look better IMO.

Very sad news.

OK, so I'm bringing this thread back to the original topic (don't shoot me). With the retro look army uniform coming out, should the army bring back the embroidered regiment titles on the shoulder of the tunic sleeve? If you think about it, why do we need all uniforms to have a CANADA shoulder...

De-unify the armed forces into the Canadian Army and RCN (with their respective air forces - we don't have, or will ever have enough air assets for a fully functional, separate RCAF). Having 2 separate military entities, with their own separate budget would require the gov't to increase...

I was just making the point that I didn't envision it to be a strictly military honour, but a national one that would be available to those who participated in a national emergency, be they civilian or military. Not that it really matters, as I'm sure the Gov't of Canada will never issue a...