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To: OldMissileer
"...the Navy cammo was to help keep snipers from targeting the troops while they were walking around on their ships when in foreign ports."

Okay. However, the "dark" blue/gray camis stand out against the solid haze gray ship paint. I don't get that reasoning.

106 posted on 02/06/2018 12:01:06 PM PST by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: A Navy Vet
Okay. However, the "dark" blue/gray camis stand out against the solid haze gray ship paint. I don't get that reasoning.

I don't know, either. That was what I was told and he was a part of that uniform board. Maybe they were all on drugs at the time. :-)

107 posted on 02/06/2018 1:35:57 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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