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The official answer to when soldiers can wear the Army’s fleece jacket
Assemble ‘round and listen up mainly because we’re only going to say this once: The Army’s fleece jacket is an outer garment. Of all the challenges struggling with the navy these days, defining precise rules for how a soldier wears their jacket surely is not the most urgent. But that has not stopped plenty of leaders from giving troopers a tough time for a perceived uniform infraction: Donning a fleece jacket above the relaxation of their dresses the way any normal individual would. When barracks legal professionals will be fast to position out that the Army’s uniform coverage states that outer clothes will “include the layer III fleece jacket, when…
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Incredible archival images show Chicago’s people, places and World War II soldiers during the ’40s
It’s a decade that has been called the golden age of newspaper photography. ‘We wanted to start the book in the 1940s,’ Michael Williams, one of its editors, told DailyMail.com. ‘This was an incredible period of photojournalism.’ The black-and-white photographs reveal Chicago during the decade: the soldiers going off to fight in World War II, the women who saw them off, and the parades and elation after it ended. Photojournalists took images that showed the city’s homeless, its famed Maxwell Street, which editor Richard Cahan called an incredible bazaar, and Japanese-American girls displaying their heritage after the war and forced internment. These indelible archival images – and millions of others…
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