The dude at JBA LRS who hooked him up with that parka was doing him NO favors.
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That’s a parka? I thought it was a little green dress.
mar 28, 2025, 11:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Who visits a foreign country dressed like that? Disgraceful. He looks worse than the guy leading an effort to repel a foreign invader. I'm pretty sure 100% of the delegation sent to "welcome" him (all of Greenland turned out to protest) were better dressed.
mar 28, 2025, 10:06 pm • 17 0 • view
That parka should be standard issue for USMIL deployers to places like Pituffik, unless replaced by a more modern version, but it looks like the Temu version of the one I wore in the early 90s, which was a quality product and actually looked good.
mar 28, 2025, 10:12 pm • 10 0 • view
Actually, it’s the Temu version of the parkas we wore in ‘72-‘74. 🤣
mar 29, 2025, 3:10 am • 8 0 • view
Which were probably the same ones Ellsworth had in the Mobility Warehouse in 1988. Our M-60 ammo had headstamps from the late 60s. My carbine had *very* little parkerizing left on the aluminum, which looked kinda cool, actually.
mar 29, 2025, 3:23 am • 0 0 • view
I like to think he chose green because he thought it would "resonate" with the natives.
mar 29, 2025, 12:12 am • 0 0 • view