Quote Originally Posted by Van View Post

It could be worse, they've actually decreased the number of uniforms for officers and careerists. The only folks that really get screwed are the folks who were close to retirement and didn't have blues. If they were really introducing a new, additional uniform, I'd be frothing at the mouth.
Van,

The wear out is 2014! That mean's you're only "Screwed" if you're at the 14 year mark and are too cheap to have invested in Blues by that point in your career. Most SFC's and above I have ever met wear blues, and officers are required to have them. Maybe a higher impact on the RC, but enlisted soldiers do get a clothing allowance and CSA Preston indicated the "wear out" timeline was deigned to allow all soliders to afford the new uniform within that period.

And most soldiers' aren't paying for ACU's as they did the BDU, they're issued prior to deployment. And not sewing on tons of patches and no pressing makes it much cheaper than the BDU was to won.