Army Chief endorses rolled sleeves on ACUs, launches pilot at Fort Hood

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It's the important things.  Also, trending on FB.

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley on Thursday announced during a trip to Fort Hood, Texas, that soldiers will be able to roll the sleeves on the Army Combat Uniform.

But don’t start rolling your sleeves just yet, Army officials said. Milley is calling for a 10-day pilot at Fort Hood with the intention of continuing it for the rest of the Army.

http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/2016/06/16/army-test-rolled-sleeves-combat-uniforms-new-pilot-fort-hood/85989880/?from=global&sessionKey&autologin

 

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Milley is calling for a 10-day pilot at Fort Hood with the intention of continuing it for the rest of the Army.

I can hear the pick-up lines in Killeen already:  "ya baby, I'm kinda like a test pilot -- I do sleeves; it's very dangerous shit"    ;D

 

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Loving this Duffleblog/Army Times collaboration.

 

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From Twitter.  I wish some of our seemingly random B&B initiatives could be decided by a vote.

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Also, how is the "camo out" hard to roll?  The RAAF does it the same way and sure, you have to take off your shirt first, but "hard to roll" doesn't really come to mind.

#15thSMA wants to know which one you like. Cammo in or cammo out?

https://twitter.com/GENMarkMilley/status/745373678439825408