[NEMDF]

Do you have a woman of some type to help SEW the darn things on? Mom, neighbor, wife, sister, ETC???

Otherwise you can take them to a dry cleaner but not if you need them in just a few hours — but you might call if any are close.. you are Mountain time, right?

Thank you for your service.

[SFC Chromey]

see post #48 :)

[tlj18]

Velcro has its advantages. :-) I like it, but it doesn't 100% sense tactically. You know, you are sneaking up on someone in the darkness, you are about to choke him out, then - your Velcro snags on a branch. So much for being covert.

I have never touched an iron since I joined, don't have to work abut getting stuff sown on my combat uniform (only my Class A's). I like it that way!

[Bear_Slayer]

They are velcro now.

[Caesar Soze]

Do you have a woman of some type to help SEW the darn things on? Mom, neighbor, wife, sister, ETC??? Otherwise you can take them to a dry cleaner but not if you need them in just a few hours — but you might call if any are close.. you are Mountain time, right?

Both sewing patches and dry cleaning the ACU are against the regs. Dry cleaning the ACU--even washing it with the wrong detergent--can degrade its stealthy characteristics. It's treated to make it harder to see with night vision equipment; the optical brighteners common to most detergents make it glow in the dark (for certain values of dark).

That being said, I'm sure there's some Pentagon O3 somewhere dry-cleaning, pressing, and starching his ACUs--and one day he'll be CSA :(