• @sickhack@lemmy.world
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    276 months ago

    This is how you get all your officers killed in the battlefield.

    Colonial sharpshooters were already excellent at picking off Redcoat officers in 1774.

    Then both Union and Confederate officers were picked off at a high rate. Look at how garish Grant’s uniform is compared to Stormin’ Norman.

    Finally we learned. WW2 officers had ornamentations removed or covered, even far from the battlefield. When the Indianapolis was hit, no one could locate Admiral Spruance. They thought he might have died. Nope, there was a guy wearing just khakis and no ornamentation helping fight the fires— turned out it was Spruance. No one recognized him because he only recently transferred his flag over.

    • teft
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      466 months ago

      Field uniforms are different than dress uniforms. This is a dress uniform and it is used to show off your accomplishments and affiliations. Field uniforms would be more like Major Hayes from Enterprise. His uniform is drab and you can’t easily tell the difference between him and his subordinates.

        • teft
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          136 months ago

          That’s probably more to do with budgetary reasons. Why make two sets of clothes for something most people won’t notice or care about?

    • @BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world
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      166 months ago

      This isn’t the uniform they would wear for actual boots on the ground warfare. These people are the equivalent to the navy not the army or marines. Snipers arent picking Admirals off regularly on their own ships. If they went “ashore” it would make sense to have different uniforms unless they were knowingly doing a diplomatic mission on that particular plant at that time. Then you wear a dress uniform. There’s a reason dress uniforms look different from ACUs.