{"id":28349,"date":"2023-09-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=28349"},"modified":"2023-09-22T06:42:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T06:42:16","slug":"pilot-program-delivers-free-maternity-uniforms-for-eligible-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=28349","title":{"rendered":"Pilot program delivers free maternity uniforms for eligible Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n The Army Maternity Uniform Pilot Program or “Rent the Camo” provides free maternity combat uniforms for eligible female Soldiers in the continental U.S. It is not currently available for Soldiers overseas.
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WASHINGTON \u2014 The Army Maternity Uniform Pilot Program, also known as \u201cRent the Camo,\u201d provides eligible female Soldiers stationed in the continental Unites States with free maternity uniforms.<\/p>\n

The pilot program is available to officers and enlisted service members in all three components of the Army.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis program is going to help give [Soldiers] the one-stop shop they need,\u201d said Maj. Irma Richards, Army Logistics, troop support. \u201cBy streamlining the process to where they only have one person to deal with, which is the MUPP representative, that eliminates the back and forth a female Soldier has going to several locations to obtain her uniforms.\u201d<\/p>\n

In June 2020, Congress passed the \u201cRent the Camo: Access to Maternity Wear Act,\u201d which directed each military service to establish a pilot program for issuing maternity uniforms to pregnant service members.<\/p>\n

The Army started their program in October 2022 with two active-duty installations and a National Guard station before expanding to all installations in the continental U.S. in May.<\/p>\n

Due to the limited number of uniforms, the program is not available to installations overseas.<\/p>\n

The initiative is volunteer based. Once a member reports a pregnancy to their command, the opportunity to use the program is presented. Then the Soldier works with their installation representative for measuring and direct online ordering.<\/p>\n

Each member receives five maternity T-shirts and three sets of the operational camouflage pattern maternity uniform. The uniforms are delivered directly to the service member and are issued for up to three years.<\/p>\n

The program saves Soldiers hundreds of dollars on uniforms.<\/p>\n

There are currently 204 participants. Each installation representative receives feedback from the volunteers and passes that to program leadership.<\/p>\n

The initial response from Soldiers has been extremely positive, Richards said.<\/p>\n

The pilot will run until fiscal year 2025 or when the service uses the 12,000 sets of maternity unforms they have for the program.<\/p>\n

At the end of the pilot, the information gathered from volunteers will be used to create the Army\u2019s plan for providing maternity uniforms to service members. The Army will send the plan to Congress for approval.<\/p>\n

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The Army Maternity Uniform Pilot Program or “Rent the Camo” provides free maternity combat uniforms for eligible female Soldiers in the continental U.S. It is not currently available for Soldiers overseas. (Photo Credit: Photo illustration) VIEW ORIGINAL WASHINGTON \u2014 The Army Maternity Uniform Pilot Program, also known as \u201cRent the Camo,\u201d provides eligible female Soldiers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28351,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28352,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28349\/revisions\/28352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}