While Bronzino was chatting with his comrades, the East Africa Defense Army's border patrol was conducting their routine patrol in the "Wilderness."
"Sergeant Hans, are those soldiers over there Portuguese?" asked Peter, a newly enlisted soldier, as it was his first time seeing Portuguese soldiers.
"That's right, you can see their ranks include many Black people, and their uniforms are even uglier than our simplified military uniforms from over a decade ago, all in a dirt-gray color and looking quite wrinkled. Only the uniforms of the three officers look somewhat decent, though also quite outdated," Hans commented on the Portuguese patrol across the border line.
The uniforms of the Portuguese Angola colonial troops could be described as extremely ugly, or more diplomatically, "rudimentary," resembling the warlord forces of the Far East Empire's Republican era.
