News / New uniforms for Polish Army [30]

New to the forum here as of today actually, however this topic peaked my interest. I am an American Army Officer serving in Afghanistan right now. Having dealt with many international partners over the past months I can tell you one thing for certain; give your respective country the benefit of the doubt. You would be hard pressed to come here this very instant and go up to any random Soldier/Marine/Sailor/Airman from any country here and have them honestly tell you they feel they are under or improperly equipped for the current operating environment.

Most of the time for Operational Security reasons, you will not read or see what is currently being used by your nations service members. And for good reason! The internet is a dangerous place for details that are not vetted by anyone to be broadcast. I can assure you though, the remaining forces that are here have had almost 12 years of prior experience and research into what goes into their kit bags and on their backs. Trust in your hometown guys and gals, they're working with the result of research on what bad experiences can teach us and have someone watching their backs.

Most uniforms look pretty good at this point too actually. =P

News / New uniforms for Polish Army [30]

No doubt there are things that many of us would change if we had the big checkbook and the signature to say this is what the new standard is, enjoy! I cant think of a better example of the grass is always greener on the other side expression than in the military. Just getting to interface with many international partners and seeing what everyone has to work with and gets to use, half the time I am personally either jealous or asking myself why the heck don't we have that nifty _____ whatever item it happens to be.

I've learned that each military, and each individual branch or service component within a countries armed service, is specifically equipped for a specific mission set, especially within this environment where everyone is forced to do more with less. Everyone has those couple of dud things that they are forced to make due with. Its even more frustrating seeing the price tags on some of the stuff everyone, despite nationality, would agree is pretty freaking useless! One promising thing though is that there is constant change everywhere and finally people are starting to listen to the, "hey, this needs to change, this thing isn't worth a damn" or "this is how this could be better".