It's good to know I'm not the only one who thinks the military's camouflage fetish has gone crazy.

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37. Probably not as much waste as one might believe

It sounds big, but when spread over all the uniforms that will be made, it turns into pennies per uniform. And trying to coordinate a design for several services around the world has certain costs buried in it as well. Our corporation is forever trying to "stream line" some purchase or another. All pens will be such and so from company XYZ. They forget all the jobs that require a certain kind of pen/ink/tip/color and so there is lost time and overhead while the exceptions are addressed. Ultimately, there are so many exceptions, the savings are never realized because the actual buy size was smaller than anticipated.

There are economies of scale, but the bigger the scale, the harder it is to achieve them.