Lots of military training seems to get participants even dirtier than the kids in detergent advertisements – how do military personnel manage all this washing and ironing to get them looking immaculate again? How do their machines cope with all the grime?
I have clothes that, no matter what, will never get shiny white again – do militaries just throw this sort of stuff away knowing it’ll never be appropriate for the parade ground again?
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Short answer: don’t get mud and blood on your good uniform.
I’m serving military. I wash my uniform with a regular home washing machine in my house. If its caked in mud, I’d let it dry, beat the big parts off, and I wouldn’t load it in until I’ve hand washed the worse of it off in a sink with a brush. That said, most uniforms don’t hold huge amounts of heavy dirt in them.
But you keep a set of “good” uniform in base, that never goes anywhere dirty. That’s what you wear on parade. Then you have a set or two of “everyday” uniforms that are presentable but not perfect for normal work, and other sets that are reserved for field use only. As a set gets more worn out you downgrade them to dirtier and dirtier jobs. The army basically just factors in a fairly high turnover rate for uniforms and you exchange your worn out stuff regularly
Also, coveralls are a thing, and if your doing dirty work your expected to use them.
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