Yesterday, the Marine Corps released a message directing that the entire Marine Corps wear their sleeves down on the Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform all year-round beginning 24 October.
R 181719Z OCT 11
UNCLASSIFIED//
MARADMIN 621/11
MSGID/GENADMIN/CMC WASHINGTON DC DMCS//
SUBJ/MARINE CORPS COMBAT UTILITY UNIFORM POLICY CHANGE//
REF/A/MSGID:DOC/CMC WASHINGTON DC MCUB/31MAR2003//
AMPN/A IS MCO P1020.34G, MARINE CORPS UNIFORM REGULATIONS.//
POC/XXX/CIV/UNIT:MCUB/-/TEL: XXX/TEL:DSN XXX /EMAIL:XXX//
GENTEXT/REMARKS/1. THIS MARADMIN ANNOUNCES THE COMMANDANT’S DECISION TO CHANGE THE MARINE CORPS COMBAT UTILITY UNIFORM (MCCUU) WEAR POLICY.
2. EFFECTIVE 24 OCTOBER 2011, THE MCCUU WILL BE WORN WITH THE SLEEVES DOWN, YEAR ROUND. THIS CHANGE DOES NOT AFFECT TIMING OF THE SEASONAL UNIFORM CHANGE, WHICH WILL BE ADDRESSED AND ANNOUNCED IN A FUTURE MARADMIN.
3. REFERENCE (A) WILL BE UPDATED TO REFLECT THIS CHANGE.
4. RELEASE AUTHORIZED BY LTGEN W. J. WILLIAMS, DIRECTOR, MARINE CORPS STAFF.//
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“Is that right, Sea Lawyer? I don’t give a fat baby’s dick what you think the MarAdmin says, you’re going to roll those mother fucking sleeves because that’s what gets Chesty hard.” -Grunt SNCO
I always ended up cutting the circulation to my arms off anyways. I see it as a good acclimatization for when you’re either in the field training or deployed. You have to have them down most of the times anyhow.
Another kernel of stupidity from Airwing Amos.
WTF!!! Pretty soon we are going to be able to wear our cammies out to town. And walk and talk with our cell phones!!
Rock on Travis…
Sweet, maybe they will allow tattoos again, but I doubt it.
Airwing Amos . . . Why does the wing always want to do away with the little things that separate squared away Marines from the shit bags?
I get it, polishing boots took time away from young devils playing Xbox and starching the uniform interfered with the IR suppressing feature of the MCCUU and pilots can’t wear utilities while in the cockpit due to the piss bag and G-Suite (don’t ask about why they wear their flight suites when their not on the flight schedule)
But seriously! How many more of the physical changes are we going to make in order to make us look more like the other services? The Navy and Army already stole our pattern, and covers, now we have to walk around while in garrison in mid summer – 100+ with 70% humidity (Okinawa) with our sleeves down! How does this improve anything!??
Tone’s got it right: “Pretty soon we are going to be able to wear our cammies out to town. And walk and talk with our cell phones!” Don’t worry about that proper greeting of the day or salute there devil, were all in wing . . . err, all on the same team that is!
The rumors floating around 8th & I right now are that soon the old WW2 unit shoulder patches will soon be back. The Wing loves it’s patches.
I love you Marines, really, you’re like modern day racists who want their reparations. It’s always the Marine Corp complaining about other services, even working with you guys overseas. Suck it up. Move out, draw fire.
Instead of worrying about sleeves, why doesn’t someone do something about the unnecessary and unreadable communications format?
All caps? Bunch of non human-readable gobbledygook on the header? The world doesn’t communicate via Western Union telegrams anymore.
@GAKoenig – LOL. I agree.
@Everyone – I put a poll up regarding the rolled sleeves policy. Are you for it or against it? Head over and place your vote.
http://www.kevinwebb22.com/marine-corps-news/marine-corps-sleeves-down-all-year
GA Koenig,
GENSER format wasn’t designed for civilians, it was designed for old teletype switching networks to handle. Interestingly, it still works and so do those systems when needed and are not as vulnerable to IO.
GENSER still works because Office and other electronic word processing tools have the “Change case” feature.
I fail to see why this needed to be a Corps-wide decision ever. Delegate to unit commanders at or below the Battalion level what uniform and color (Desert/Woodland) and sleeve status is required as the uniform of the day, and don’t waste time modifying any standing uniform orders.
On the bright side, I was never going to have to roll mine anyway.