I envision a military like starship troopers, with me showering next to Dina Meyer.
Yes, but the reality with be either:
A. She looks exactly like Dina but is not into guys.
B. She's into guys but looks like one of the bugs
They're called kilts.
This is the US Military, specifically the US Army. Do you think the same folks who designed & procured the old TA-50 & the abortion of a harness to make it jump-able...or the MTV/Interceptor armor that is incompatible with the MOLLE ruck...would specify something like a tactical utilikilt? In your dreams. Reality would have all the drawbacks of both a utilikilt and a silk skirt.
The shitty thing about the contemporary armed forces is that it embodies all the very worst pieties and authoritarianism of both right and left*. I really don't know if I'll be able to recommend the armed forces to my kiddos, as they teach such perverted values.
* Granted the lefty pieties are imposed by scum-sucking social engineers, but the spineless Os go right along.