[Grimmy]

The purpose for BDUs of any sort is rather uni-deminsional. It's about combat needs and combat needs alone. Civvie wear, coolness, the neato factor, all that is nonrelevant.

The old cammies, the woodlands ect..were almost totally single theater specific and therefore of lesser usefulness.

The digies are an attempt to have one pattern that works where ever our troops are deployed.

Velcro, well, try getting into a pocket secured by buttons with a busted finger, missing finger nail or heavy gloves on. Or with a lifetime's worth of adrinaline pumping thru all at once.

As far as velcro for all the flash and doodads...well, I dont believe any of that should be on a combat uniform anyway. Not even name tages. Nothing that can identify the specific unit or the person. All that just aids and assists the enemy, in my opinion.

There's part of me that doesnt even believe rank insignia should be on a combat uniform. If you are fighting, you know damn well who's beside you and what their rank is.