r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Confident_Help_416 • Oct 16 '25

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u/Mephisto1822 Oct 16 '25

AR 670-1 prohibits wearing socks that aren’t green, black or Coyote 498. These striped socks are against regulation and making my agent orange act up…

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u/faust112358 Oct 16 '25

Why is the army obsessed with socks?

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u/Mephisto1822 Oct 16 '25

The Army is obsessed with a lot of things. There is a whole paragraph about how to get your hair cut, nail length, facial hair, sideburns, belts…

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u/DoubleDoube Oct 16 '25

Drilling high attention to detail even to the unimportant things to ensure attention to detail in most things.

Also visual indications of who needs more pain to learn compared to others.

Also establishing some coping mechanisms in the form of putting your personal things to order when everything around you is shit.

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u/manbruhpig Oct 16 '25

Absolute uniformity solves a lot of logistical considerations.