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Usually it is cost effectiveness. The amount of SWAT and Feds that are former military is about 80 percent. So making the uniforms and equipment similar you preserve familiarity and can tell them to bring their own shit that YOU KNOW THEY KEPT, because fuck it. It wasn't on my clothing record so I don't have to turn it in.Bit of a power level here but it's relevant to the conversation here, so here goes...
My uncle was in the Army and served in Afghanistan back in the early 2000's and was stationed in Bagram Air Base and was part of a construction unit.
He'll even tell you the majority of his experience in Afghanistan was just pouring concrete and building or repairing structures around the base and he finds a lot of the ass-kissing vets get to be kind of patronizing at this point and he honestly finds it hilarious how so many people think that the support guys are like Big Boss or Alvin York when the majority of military personnel are doing the important busywork and support work to keep everything running.
As pretty much everyone else here has pointed out, one of the reasons why our military is such an effective fighting force is because the majority of the personnel are part of support or service support units as opposed to direct combat troops.
Getting back to the main topic of the thread, the one thing I've always found confusing is how so many SWAT units and riot police from the 2010's onward tend to wear more military-style uniforms and gear with the camo color patterns.
Usually, back in the 80's. 90's, and even in the early 2000's most tactical police units had their uniforms be some kind of black or dark blue to distinguish them from National Guard soldiers but now the SWAT guys and Feds tend to rock the drab colors of the military. Is there a specific reason for this shift?