#army uniform

[claydough61]

[seredelgi]

Requested: A girl slips her phone number in Elvis’ jacket during an interview in March 1960.

Ngl, that would have been me.

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[clove-pinks]

2013 Garrison Day at Fort George, Niagara-on-the-Lake. Black and white photography by Michael Hurley.

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[deanwinchestersboytoy]

[oldvintageglamour]

Tony Bennett after returning home from the Army, 1946 🪖🎖️🪖🎖️🪖

[rockinrainbow25]

I've never seen the movie... but when scrolling through pinterest I found an edit of this badass villain and decided to make a little doodle of him during criminal forensics class :PP

[blackswaneuroparedux]

The British soldier's morale was fed not only by patriotism (`Your Country needs you') but by the unique regimental spirit that has been the envy of other armies down to the present day: one cannot let the Regiment down.

J.M. Bereton, The British Soldier

Victorian Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Officers Drill Order on Foreign Service.

[myeclecticwetdreams]

Check it out

new army buddies ...

[leonidassowing]

[thefrontierfacade]

Korean War Photo, ~1950-1954, US army test firing.

Believed to be an 90 millimeter M1 anti-aircraft gun on the M1A1 mount base.

Thanks to @twoseparatecoursesmeet for the HD scan.

[tsyllaes]

Dudeman McBaldy here represents the rank and file of specifically the Sirronan army. First he puts on his base uniform, which is what they wear around the barracks if they're not actually training. Then he'll put on his armour, which is all in bronze because Kazin hasn't figured out iron yet and like hell Raykin's letting them in on that tech. In poorer provinces, the leaf mail will instead be leather with rivets. Next he'll put on his tunic, for which the single, solitary purpose is so I don't have to draw that much leaf mail every time I draw the princes :))) This will also be where he puts on his Family Colours, which are important even when in uniform. They'll either go over or under the belt, and often army dudes will have a second set of Colours for their uniform, which will cut off at the same length as their tunic. Finally, he'll strap his breastplate over his Colours and he's ready to arm himself to the teeth.

Rank and file get a bow and quiver, a wooden shield edged in bronze and a straight, bronze kris about half a metre long, so significantly shorter than the almost a metre Raykinian blades. Making the wiggles in the kris blade takes great skill, making them more pricey, and keeping them sharp and polished takes more time and effort than a straight one, so the rank and file will most often have a straight blade. The more highly-ranked a dude is, the more wiggles he'll have on his blade.

Next is all the colours of the provincial uniforms! Haysyd is pov so they can't afford to dye their army's uniforms in anything more than ochre :( They and Sissillya have similar colours but they're on opposite sides of the empire and aren't likely to ever be at war with each other, so it's fine. Sijaaz is up in the mountains on the Llayan border, so they get grey rock and gumleaf colours. Sirrona also in the bush, so they get desaturated blue-green of gumleaves. All the bright/deep green ones are tropical because dark green leaves. The others I just gave colours so they're not going to be confused with their neighbours, with whom they're probably at war, or have been in the past.

Finally army ranks, as displayed on their breastplates. I used to have them colour-coded with steel but that doesn't work anymore cos they don't have steel, ahaha. So it's all in stripes. The Commanding Circle (of whom there are 5-9 in an army, depending on the size of the army) and the general get theirs gold plated, and everyone from colonel up gets silver in their stripes.

Additionally, and not shown here because Dudeman McBaldy is just a dude, royalty gets all the metal on their armour plated gold. Their breastplate has a peacock feather engraved into it, and another peacock feather embroidered onto the breast of their tunic and shirt. They have no power inherant with being royalty, but you still wouldn't want to piss them off. They're still related to the queen, y'know. Here are my princes to demonstrate this:

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23/02/2000