I don't know if Operational dress at NDHQ etc. is going to stay. Some have hinted that it was because of a lack of uniform availability. Given than Logistik is scaling back on DEU because the new Army DEU is arriving in 2026, that's probably why. And they couldn't just say Op Dress for Army because the RCAF and RCN would get their noses out of joint that they still had to wear DEU. You'll see 3B return to the NCR when the new ones are issued.
Now, are they comfortable? Remains to be seen. I think we should redesign our DEU from scratch. The concepts Logistik presented at CANSEC the past two years, from what I saw searching the web, are major throwbacks to WWII British Army uniforms. Put the concept for the "women's" pocketed DEU beside a common picture of Queen Elizabeth II (then Princess), and you'll see a damn near identical tunic. I think we need to consider what an independent Canada with its own identity would dress like rather than putting Millennials and Gen Z etc. in historical outfits. I want to see a modernised dress uniform, emphasis on modernised.
