Which one is more cute? Little girls with headscarves off to school or a HMMWV with whitewalls? It's really a difficult call, but I'm going with schoolgirls. Maybe it's the Sailor Moon Backpack.
The variety of uniforms I encounter around Afghanistan is another cute thing. If "cute" is the right word. With just American uniforms, you have Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines each with their own camouflage patterns. But it gets better. Each has their own version of flight suits, so we're up to eight, then the Army is testing six more patterns of camoflauge, so what? 14 patterns? And then the Navy has its tan dessert pattern that everyone else has abandoned, but has also come up with what I can only call "aquaflage."
The best part is when someone tries to quote uniform standards and regulations. Really? How can anyone tell? And then there are another 15 countries or so represented on our camp each with another four to ten types of uniforms.
Does any of this chaos of uniforms make sense when the word "uniform" is violated by the the very presence of so many different styles?
The little girls in the picture are uniformed to go to school and look to be marching in step. That's more than you can say about where I work. Go figure.
The girls are definitely cute, but I vote for white-walled HMMWVs. Their appearance probably signifies as one-ups manship amongst the Allied motorpools. I bet no other nation on site has white walled tires. American creativity comes through again to confirm that we are the greatest, and most fashionable, nation there. Except for all the others.
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