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.)
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
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