Originally Posted by
Spartan07
Stonefly - You don't like the name tapes? I like them but it is kind of funny how they are at an angle now
That's another thing that separates a Marine serving in combat from a garrison Marine. For us (Infantry) we are issued a bunch of cammies without name tapes before the deployment. Most of us only take one pair of taped ones for the return home and don't wear them the whole deployment. I can really tell by looking through my closet which cammies I wore in Iraq, they look terrible
Nah, I hated the nametapes! Part of my resistance was tradition, traditionally we didn't wear them. Another reason was the anonymity. Instead of someone saying "Hey, Marine!" into a crowd, now they could single you out. Finally, if you got back late from Kinville the night (morning) before, and didn't have a uniform ready, you could always borrow one. I like the fact that the Marines haven't festooned their uniforms with a bunch of patches and what not, a Marine is a Marine. There is only one insignia that matters, the Eagle, Globe and Anchor! The set of my cammies (I only had two sets of the old school "chocolate chip" deserts and only wore one during the ground war portion)from Kuwait were all oil stained from the burning oil fields.
Semper Fi!