Exactly - COTTON socks? They should be berated.
Wool - high percentage merino wool, and accept no substitutes.
Poor leadership permeates throughout the entire government. A majority of these people would starve if they had to work in the real world.
The socks I knitted for my husband, which he wore with his greens, and which he took in with him for inspection, were wool socks.
EXACTLY!!! I never wore anything but those olive drab, wool socks. They did a much better job of keeping feet dry than any pair of cotton socks that were made back then.
The CSM was performing those inspections for a reason, something that effing civilian never could have understood.