Military Uniform stupidity is ingrained in the culture. Once upon a time NORAD - in a fit of concern over midair’s - painted all their tip tanks day-glo orange. Then yo up the ante, got day-glo orange flight suits. When the squadrons eventually rotated to SEA and got shot down, they found a real dearth of day-glo orange vegetation to hide in.

Later on a USAF Chief of staff was also uniform obsessed. Came up with a number of different uniforms - that no one but he liked.

https://www.airforcemag.com/article/0109uniform/

Fortunately, he only held that position for three years and the institution slow-rolled his idiocy until someone more reasonable replaced him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...-3ab085817d68/

I knew a senior officer who - as a young captain - had been selected to test wear the blue flight suit McPeak had designed. Besides sharing the NORAD flight suit problem of little blue vegetation to assist with the E&E, it pretty much made the wearer look like a giant smurf according to the senior officer.