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A no uniform order has been issued, not sure if this is just overseas or stateside as well.

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I grew up land-locked and developed an intense interest in reading sea stories from an early age. Prior to my coming along, everyone in my family who served, did so in the Army. I enlisted in the U. S. Navy in 1968 at the age of 18.One thing about serving in the military, one's wardrobe undergoes a complete overhaul, right down to the skivvies.I remember that first day at bootcamp where I stood outside with my Company, a big pile of new clothing at my feet and a new seabag to put it in after every piece of it was...

US marines told today how they killed one suicide bomber and discovered a suicide bomb workshop in the Sunni Muslim bastion of Fallujah, apparently run by Iraqis and foreigners. The building, found on Thursday when marines chased a sniper, provided new evidence of the growing role of Iraqis in suicide bombings, the marines said. The US marines are entrenched in a near week-long campaign to rid Fallujah of insurgents after four US contractors were killed by a mob and two of them were savagely mutilated on March 31. Iraqi police and judges have recently expressed alarm about the increasing involvement...

I want to know how the Iraqis got those American military uniforms. Do you remember the flap about the black ranger berets? Didn't those berets come from China? I wonder if we've farmed out the making of our uniforms to a foreign country? If so, and if that country sold uniforms to Saddam, guess where the next MOAB will be headed!!