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Old 02-23-2011, 04:11 PM
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Default Uniforms in the Twilight War

Of all the military weapons and equipment combat soldiers use, I would reckon that uniforms wear out the fastest. After the TDM, it would be much more difficult, if not impossible, to manufacture uniforms in the same quantity and quality as it was before. How many uniforms (ballpark) do modern armies stockpile? Wood the U.S., for example, have stockpiled enough woodland pattern BDUs to keep American soldiers clothed from mid-'97 to 2000 and beyond? Once all surplus uniforms are distributed, how are armies going to clothe themselves?

I don't know much about textile manufacturing, aside from the fact that it was one of the first large-scale industries during the early stages of the Industrial Revolution. I'd imagine it would be possible to manufacture uniforms post-TDM, but I suspect they would have to be simpler than pre-TDM uniforms.

I don't think that cotton grows particularly well (if at all) in most of Europe. So, would wool be the primary material in post-TDM manufactured uniforms? I imagine that making camouflage cloth would be more difficult than making monochrome cloth. I supose you could tie-die green fabric to create some sort of cammo but it would be more simple than the complex, multicolor patterns common in the mid-'90s and beyond, IRL.

I imagine some (if not most) late-war American soldiers and Marines would be clad in plain OD, wool combat fatigues. Things like PAGST vests/LBE and Kevlar "K-Pot" kelmets (perhaps without covers once they fell apart) would be salvaged and reused until they wore out completely.

What are your thoughts on military [combat] uniforms in the later stages of the Twilight War?
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