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...Grenada, combat command officers from Fort McPherson, Ga., reported that the response to the current B.D.U., introduced in 1981, was "universally unfavorable." That was putting it mildly. During last October's Grenada invasion, Marines temporarily equipped with the B.D.U. instead of the appropriate tropical gear complained that the fabric was heavy, sweaty and unkempt. Even soldiers in cooler climes agreed. Once wet, the uniform takes an excessive time to dry. The sleeves are too narrow to roll up easily, the collar too wide and the pants pockets hard to reach. Seams unravel, buttons fall off. The trousers come with...
...morale problem has been added to the practical difficulties: a chemical agent has been embedded in the fabric to protect troops from nighttime detection by enemy heat-seeking infrared devices. But this precludes the use of starch. "It hangs like a pair of pajamas," moans Specialist Fourth Class Richard Russell of Fort Benning, Ga. Although new recruits are given their uniforms, enlisted men have to purchase them at a cost of $16.30 for the pants, $14.75 for the shirt and $31.13 for the field jacket...
...They seem to have no worry whether I can safely drive at all, let alone find my way home, home, in the dark, having drunk as much as this .. . The passport, I had noticed, was growing smaller, over the years, and changing fabric ... A case nominally begins with an injury, for which there exists in the law a kind of remedy, usually financial, but sometimes having to do, rather more brutally, with divorce, separation, incarceration, custody...
John Stockwell, the highest-ranking former CIA official to speak critically of the agency, told a supportive Sanders Theater audience of 200 that the CIA's covert actions "disrupt the political and social fabric" of developing countries and threaten "the fate of the earth...
Cohen explains that she first got the idea for 'Common Threads' from the 1982 East Cambridge River Festival where she met the various fabric artists. The Cambridge City Arts, Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities. Polaroid Foundation, and MIT Museum all responded to Cohen's request for support and funding...