The yearslong shortage of the Marine Corps’ woodland top and bottom uniform items has finally relented, according to the manufacturer and distributors of the Marine pattern, or MARPAT, uniform that devil dogs rely on for their everyday wear.
Pandemic-related supply issues caused cammies to disappear from exchange store shelves over the last two-plus years, forcing Marines to wear other uniform options as they waited for stocks to replenish. Military.com reported in April that the Marine Corps was working to get these items back to exchanges, but some distributors such as the Navy Exchange, or NEX, still did not have stocks available.
Last week, representatives for the NEX and Marine Corps Exchange told Military.com that, despite some back orders, they were not experiencing delays for uniform tops and bottoms. Specifically, the NEX spokesperson said that its stores had 6,100 cammie units available on shelves, and that it expects the items to be available for purchase online by the end of the month.
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“For a little over a year, the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform has been unavailable for purchase in store and online at myNavyExchange.com due to limited inventory availability,” Courtney Williams, a spokesperson for the Navy Exchange Service Command, told Military.com via email Wednesday. “Most recently, however, NEXCOM…
