Outfitting the Military

There are always plenty of military types making their way around the city, many dressed in their camouflage finest. Green camouflage. Which, in a city isn't exactly effective, even considering that Ottawa's a relatively green place. But now with all this white snow, they really stand out at quite a distance.
I passed one gentleman the other day and was terribly, terribly tempted to whisper loudly, "I can see you."
Come on! It's Canada. Can't they have some sort of winter outfit? I mean, uniform. Even slush-colored camouflage would be a step in the right direction. I imagine all this beautiful snow will be gross and slate-hued in a few days.

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Seeing all these military guys wandering around all done up like leprechauns makes me think of relatively non-snow related uniform story. An anecdote, if you will.
In Korea, all the kids wear uniforms; private and public schools alike. They have one uniform for warm weather, one for cold (no camouflage that I saw, however). And all the kids at all the schools switch on the same day. So one day, all my students showed up wearing clothes that I was totally unaccustomed to [the seasonal uniforms look very different, most without even colors in common].
And it was kind of overwhelming.

So maybe, just maybe the military sticks with the green to avoid shocking the civilians.