<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThis following is an answer on US ARMY uniform protocol from Tiffany Rodriguez-Rexroad on Quora, who assembled uniforms and equipment from American wars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
*1700 is 5:00 PM, 1900 is 7:00PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The Physical Training (PT) uniform is to be worn to\/during\/from physical training (usually in the morning). We are not supposed to stop off at convenience stores or gas stations while wearing it, but this often gets overlooked. You are not supposed to wear it to the PX (on-post department store) or commissary (on-post grocery store), but this varies from base to base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The combat or duty uniform (camouflage fatigues) are worn on a daily basis as a utility uniform. Since we spend most of the duty day (0900\u20131700*) in it we are allowed to go to lunch or run errands during the lunch break while wearing it. Also, we can stop for gas, groceries, short shopping trips after work while wearing it. The uniform is not supposed to be worn past 1900* unless you are on an extended duty day past that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Service and Dress uniforms are mostly worn for special occasions. The same rules apply as for the camo uniforms in regards to stopping for gas and groceries, but you will also see Soldiers wearing them to weddings, funerals, parties, movies, etc. This is very much true if the base you are near is a training base and recent graduates are out with their parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The combat uniform cannot be worn to recreational functions, like the bar\/strip club, movies, etc. (There seems to be leeway for sporting events). The Service\/Dress uniforms can, BUT the locale and the Soldier\u2019s behavior must not be \u201cunbecoming\u201d. Uniforms can NEVER be worn to political rallies\/events unless the event is specifically<\/em><\/strong> to honor the military, to any meeting of a domestic terror\/hate group (i.e. KKK), in sponsorship or endorsement of a product, service, or political candidate, or when engaged in an act of sedition against America.(This last happened frequently during the Vietnam War protests.)<\/p>\n\n\n\nOnce you get out or retire you are not supposed to wear the PT\/Camo uniforms, and only wear the Dress uniforms for Veteran functions\/special occasions, but since you are out there isn\u2019t much they can do to you. And there is absolutely nothing preventing civilians from wearing military uniforms, although please try to avoid stolen valor if you want to play dress up.” Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So you want to wear a military jacket? Possibly from your grandfather’s time abroad or your dad’s while he’s home from his recent siege? Here in this article, we’ll talk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryexcess.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryexcess.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryexcess.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryexcess.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryexcess.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/militaryexcess.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2938,"href":"https:\/\/militaryexcess.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/2938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryexcess.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryexcess.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryexcess.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryexcess.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}