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The Army is not buying a new PT uniform, but it will offer soldiers a wider selection of optional PT gear items, a spokesman for the service’s top enlisted leader said.
“The Army will continue to issue the current Army Physical Fitness Uniform,” Master Sgt. Dan Carter told Task & Purpose. “We are developing options for soldiers to supplement their issued uniforms, upgraded shorts, shirts for instance.”
These options are intended to be more comfortable and help with soldiers’ performance needs “while still maintaining a uniformed appearance,” Carter said.

This is Chapter 1 in the Wellness Memoir. Come back every Friday for the next two months to walk this journey with Jaimi, one chapter at a time.
My name is Jaimi Erickson, and I am the wife of a retired United States Marine. He served for 24 years on active duty, and during the final 20 years of his military career I was along for the adventure. During the next eight weeks, I will share the pivotal experience that taught me just how strong military spouses can be under pressure. I still look back and am amazed that so much could happen during one year of time.

On Sept. 19, Dr. Olivia Cheung, Research Fellow at the China Institute at SOAS University of London, spoke about her book, The Political Thought of Xi Jinping, co-authored with Steve Tsang. Image: COP PARIS
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Our military services are steeped in tradition built out of real-life heroics of our predecessors: George Washington and his soldiers fearlessly crossing a frozen Delaware river; Marines raising the flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima; the harrowing contests in the air over Europe by the Tuskegee Airmen and the 100th Bomb Group; James Lawrence’s final cry admonishing his men, “Don’t give up the ship!