that's, yeah.

I've had those for years and I'm like, finally, I have an excuse to actually, to actually wear these.

Um, and then I guess, you know, I kind of had like a bunch of like random Patagonia pieces too, that from their military contracting days.

So like early two thousands and some of their Mars stuff, which was like, again, like their kind of military line, they did kind of very early GWAT, um, that they were kind of playing around with.

Right.

And yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was, it was great.

Like, you know, but now it seems, it seems even more so like I can go pretty much anywhere and see someone wearing like tactical shit.

that's, yeah.

I've had those for years and I'm like, finally, I have an excuse to actually, to actually wear these.

Um, and then I guess, you know, I kind of had like a bunch of like random Patagonia pieces too, that from their military contracting days.

So like early two thousands and some of their Mars stuff, which was like, again, like their kind of military line, they did kind of very early GWAT, um, that they were kind of playing around with.

Right.

And yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was, it was great.

Like, you know, but now it seems, it seems even more so like I can go pretty much anywhere and see someone wearing like tactical shit.

I suppose UCP was truly universal in that it universally blended in with nothing.

And you'd see these photos on the cover of The New York Times, you know, of soldiers in these heavily wooded valleys in Afghanistan, just all browns and greens, and then, like, just sticking out in this, like, nearly white-looking pattern.

The Taliban wear MultiCam.

When Afghanistan was falling to the Taliban, a lot more images of Taliban soldiers were coming out for the first time.

They all look like American Special Forces.

They all are copying that style.

They're all wearing MultiCam and they're wearing backwards baseball hats.

It almost looks like they should be, like, packing a lip too.

The Quartermaster Corps is charged with assuring the successful operation of the Army of the United States by providing food, fuel, clothing, and equipment at home and abroad.

You have basically 12 million Americans in uniform, and each of them is given clothing for all four seasons, from socks, to underwear, to boots, to hats.

Again, no one thinks this war is ending anytime soon, and already this magazine is talking about how the war is preparing their future customers.

The, the title is Meet G.I. Joe Civilian, and it's like, how are we gonna prepare for this flood of new consumers who are gonna be buying clothes for the first time, who have come to expect a very high quality of fit, fabric, and variety?

This was, to him, a career soldier, the way to deal with an army of draftees.

To Littlejohn, the uniform was one of the most important tools to take this kind of unformed rabble of civilians and turn them into a fighting force.

You need to look like a soldier to be a soldier, and part of that was the right creases, was the right polished buttons, and a very trim look.

Charles McPhalane is about to talk about a nasty consequence of Littlejohn's negligence.

Men are losing toes.

Skin is coming off with the sock.

And when you look at the rates of trench foot, frostbite, all these things were being recorded at a much higher level in the units in Littlejohn's purview.