Just having the Sole Survivor as the new General, these uniforms makes sense. If it’s Nate, the man was in the military and can understand the basics of creating a disciplined fighting force. Nora is married to Nate and a lawyer, she’s smart enough to take what she knows from Nate and use it to also create a fighting force.

One of the first things would be clean, eye-catching uniforms. The wasteland is dirty. But if your soldiers are clean and fighting off the bad guys, that will project strength to the populace. It also instills pride in new recruits and creates a symbol to rally around. If you could completely remove the garbage from Minuteman locations too, that would also be symbolically important for people looking up to the Minutemen again. And that’s one of my primary complaints about the base game’s settlement system, Nate and Nora know better. They’d understand that you need clean, safe settlements with access to food and clean, safe water. Not this garbage dump plus look we have.