AAFES put out an April 10 release advising airmen to buy OCPs only from AAFES stores because those uniforms have a government-certified contract number on the inside label and comply with the ...

The Army is in transition to the OCP uniform, with all soldiers required to have them by October 2019. Under Army regulation and the direction of the Army Clothing Services Office, only Guard and ...

The military has seen many uniform changes in the past few years. Old acronyms have given way to new ones: BDUs, ABU s and ACU s are all OCPs now. But those TLAs (three-letter acronyms) ...

The wait is over: OCPs are here. For years, airmen have dreamed of it, demanded it, and envied those lucky enough to have it already. And now, finally, the Operational Camouflage Pattern uniform ...

Oct. 7 (UPI) --The U.S. Air Force, after a three-year wait, issued its new uniforms to recruits entering basic military training, utility uniforms identical to those of the U.S. Army. The first ...

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"The Army has done considerable work to make the OCPs a better fitting uniform for female service members," said Maj. Gen. Bob LaBrutta, director of military force management policy, deputy chief ...

Airmen can begin donning their new Operational Camouflage Pattern uniforms beginning Oct. 1. Here's a quick run-down on the new Air Force Instruction regarding the uniform's authorizations to get ...

Military uniforms have come a long way since America's infancy. For a century or more after the Revolutionary War, uniforms reflected civilian wear, said Michael McAfee, curator of history at the ...

Dailey replied to the NCOs - half of whom were wearing Operational Camouflage Patterns, or OCPs, the other Army Combat Uniforms, or ACUs - "I don't want to make any more changes." ...