I’ll take on part of that. Some idiot in the Army decided on the camo pattern for the original change from the BDU to the ACU. The camo pattern actually made our troops *more* visible rather than less - and a number of our troops have been killed because their ‘camo’ uniforms served instead to highlight them against a background they couldn’t blend with.
I can see that... though I would like to see some definitive comparisons/data. But not if we the taxpayers have to foot the bill for it.