No I don't have the Uniforms Manager. I had it in a previous play through and as I had also the issue, I removed it thinking it was the culprit.
I don't have, to my knowledge, any mod adding soldiers. The guy has as his surname 'Chop', do you find it in the template soldiers? Does he have shoulder pads?
But anyway I'm done it seems, I was playing in Ironman and my saved game becomes 'corrupt'. This is just a let down really.
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