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Originally posted by apod View Post
How is having a bespoke DPM specific to the NS which is only good for wear in certain limited occasions
A/ going to save money,
It's probably a hell of a lot more cost effective than buying something you could actually categorise as bespoke and lacking in the economy of scale that buying something based on what the wider DF wears.
Regarding the corporate identity thing, the NS have certainly been the most adept of the three branches at so doing in recent years. Obviously the cammo pattern serves no actual purpose but it will certainly not cost any more than putting a tender to the market and buying something completely different to the wider DF.
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Originally posted by Jetjock View PostRegarding the corporate identity thing, the NS have certainly been the most adept of the three branches at so doing in recent years. Obviously the cammo pattern serves no actual purpose but it will certainly not cost any more than putting a tender to the market and buying something completely different to the wider DF.
It also depends on if the design (garment not material) is standard (ie the same as the army)
However, if a single contract is placed for all DF "W/D"/"combats" requirements the unit price should be cheaper
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Originally posted by DeV View PostIt depends, multiple colours is going to be more expensive than a single colour no matter what the contract
It also depends on if the design (garment not material) is standard (ie the same as the army)
However, if a single contract is placed for all DF "W/D"/"combats" requirements the unit price should be cheaper
In that case the argument against navy pattern DPM is no different to someone saying everyone in the DF should wear the same uniform....For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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Bear in mind the environment, lad in d'army reports for work at 0830 finishes at 1700 goes home and changes or just goes home having carried out his days work, which is far from the guy who pulls on the blue gear and is gone for 3 weeks and his employment is not as straightforward as that guy in bks. Given the environment the Navy guy works he has many other things to consider other than how he looks. He works in a dangerous environment, he needs that kit which is most suited to the job. DPM or otherwise its a different ball game to the army.
Well so do the Army.Kit which is in short supply at the moment due to shortages and cutbacks.Not gucci kit,but the basics.Now, not all army jobs allow you to go home every night,many involve being away from home working in rough terrain in all weathers,at all times of the day and night and in some very dangerous environments..Please don;t forget that.The NS doesn't have the market cornered on dangerous and shitty.
Originally posted by hptmurphy View Posttheres the difference, the army go to work to train, the navy go to work to do a specific job, hence the tgear has to be right
DPM or not!
So 95% of the army are involved in all of these tasks , all of the time???? Don't think so.
You train, you carry out your ATCP/ATCA tasks, you go home.....
PSO tasks, you then enter in to the realm of doing the job you train for...and live that role.
Thats what ships crews do for all the time posted to a ship..normally a two year stint.For that time that ships depends on its crew as much as they depend on it and that can be dirty dangerous work. The gear needed needs to be appropriate. Again not sure about DPM, but the NS shouldn't have to take a bake seat to d'army when it comes to its kit requirements.Last edited by apod; 8 October 2014, 03:11."Let us be clear about three facts. First, all battles and all wars are won in the end by the infantryman. Secondly, the infantryman always bears the brunt. His casualties are heavier, he suffers greater extremes of discomfort and fatigue than the other arms. Thirdly, the art of the infantryman is less stereotyped and far harder to acquire in modern war than that of any other arm." ------- Field Marshall Wavell, April 1945.
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Originally posted by Toolbox View PostFor all you military anoraks:
Apparently Naval DPM will replace working dress come January!
The exact same kit and design as the current DPM but in Black, Dark Grey and Light Grey.
As well as a decent working boot!
Looking forwards to it personally what do you all think?
Bit bonkers I think, no issues with a uniform that's fit for purpose, that's a necessity and goes without saying, but DPM? Cant see the point myself.
If there was a mob in the DF that should be running about in green and DPM its the AC. That's a whole other story and part of a much wider discussion. An organisation the size of the DF with a tri service structure with one of those services being no bigger than a infantry battalion +. Re-role and re-title to Army Air Corps, becomes just another army corps, same as artillery, infantry, cavalry,,,,,. After all 90% of their tasks could be classed as army cooperation. Make them army, simples.
Anyway, DPM for the Navy, interesting, if you like it hope you get it, just think its a bit bonkers is all.We travel not for trafficking alone,
By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned,
For lust of knowing what should not be known,
We make the Golden Journey to Samarkand.
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Mind you, looking at those pictures I can see the point about getting oil and grease and general crap on it and it not showing up (or looking any worse, anyway)...'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
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Let me preface this post with the admission that I have the height of admiration for the NS - every time they leave harbour they are operational and the risks faced by being at sea in a Force 8 are very real and very immediate. But lets be honest here - NS Blue/grey DPM is about looking good , there's no tactical or operational justification for a camouflage pattern that allows the wearer to merge in with the sea ! No navy these days paints their ships in disruptive pattern to the best of my knowledge. That went out with WWII.
That being said every decent soldier/sailor/airman wants to look good - jildy is a state of mind as much as an RSM imposed appearance. Those of us who wore boring 1980's pattern uniform green combats envy those who got to wear DPM - it looks the part and, dare I say it, it's sexy.
So no complaints about any sailor who wants to look good. However what will have to be given up to afford this new kit ? What number of patrol days, new flotation devices, ammunition for the ranges etc will be given up in pursuit of looking good ?“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
― Thucydides
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Much as I recognise your service with the NS and your obvious pride with such and your previous reserve Cav experience you are starting to turn this debate about the need for a NS specific DPM uniform which serves no purpose into another "Army picks on NS" pissing contest by dismissing out of hand the jobs the Army do as being somehow less dangerous,more straightforward and somehow alot more cushy than what the poor old sea dogs have to put up with.You also claim They need the kit most suited to the job.
Well so do the Army.Kit which is in short supply at the moment due to shortages and cutbacks.Not gucci kit,but the basics.Now, not all army jobs allow you to go home every night,many involve being away from home working in rough terrain in all weathers,at all times of the day and night and in some very dangerous environments..Please don;t forget that.The NS doesn't have the market cornered on dangerous and shitty.
I'm not into pissing matches about who does what and how, but highlight the difference in roles that may not be readily evident to those who don't have an insight to what goes on where.
Its been an age since I served at sea and the job has changed significantly in the mean time, increased in intensity, and thus if what were using back then wasn't sufficent and how the rig is not far removed from what it was, it does need replacing.
I'm glad someone highlighted the change in gear for guys working in Armour, something I bleated on about since the introduction of the current smocks, now transfer that specific requirement to a whole branch of the DF, the NS and see how trivial it might seem to the outsider, but important to the end user.
I never agreed with the notion of the NS using DPM gear in normal activities, the green stuff that is.
Yes the NS should take a back seat if they are suggesting wasting money on a completely unneccessary vanity project when a simpler solution would suffice IE: Improve the quality,properties and issue scale of the current items and maybe add a smoc
The Army has been just as guilty at buying rubbish kit in the past, down to the point where there are now mulitiple dress uniforms in service for various parts of the DF, and for no other reason than PR.
And unless you are at sea or on duty in the base what do the NS do?Train and prepare to go to sea and go home.
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Wow that's a hell of a lot of argie bargy.
I've been at sea for a bit so I couldn't respond.
So great points raised and some not so great.
I could like to agree to disagree with the nay sayers, if you don't like naval DPM wait till they submit the plans for the redesigned SD1 uniform for other ranks in the INS.
I would also like to throw a little ragged spray on the honkie/sea hag pissing contest.
Chill the feck out lads, our brethren in the army do a hard, dirty and demanding job.
Admittedly they do so without any class or style but they do a professional job in the face of ignorance and adversity.
However the army of 2014 bears no relation to the army of 1990 in terms of kit, equipment, physical training or operational demands. It has evolve far beyond the fat dads army stereotypes.
As has the INS, no one who hasn't served since the very late 90's early 00's has a true appreciation of the quantum leap in professionalism, operational capacity and operational tempo of the current flotilla.
A four week patrol of the INS could only be more intense if you started throwing shells at them.
The shambolic practices such as the image show prior are not a reflection of what the INS are, I often wonder how people are strangely proud that the service used to be a chaotic alcohol soaked mess.
Roll on new clothing I say, roll on new ships, roll on a expanded DF (fingers crossed white paper)
And be ever vigilante of any desire to revel in the "old days", time marches on and waits for no-one.
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Originally posted by DeV View Post"Well, stone me! We've had cocaine, bribery and Arsenal scoring two goals at home. But just when you thought there were truly no surprises left in football, Vinnie Jones turns out to be an international player!" (Jimmy Greaves)!"
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