So did I.
Only a REMF would comply with something so stupid.
Another dumb things from that time. I was in Viet Nam early, before anyone really knew what was going on.
My first months on patrol I was wearing my stateside fatigues, with white name plate, gold US ARMY, white jump wings, and a color sholder sleeve insignia. I can not believe how naive we were back then.
The jungle fatigues were eventually issued to us. One each.
We wore it until “A” it fell off us, or “B” the engineers set up a shower and we got issued another one. Over time things got better.