Posted on 12/28/2009 4:02:06 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
Yes, but he and his Humvee stand out like sore thumbs.
Agreed. The darn velcro is always reclosing and needing reopening at the most inconvenient times. Hard to do with one hand while it is holding something to put in the pocket.
The U.S. Army is testing MultiCam alongside a version of the digital Universal Camouflage Pattern already featured on the Army Combat Uniform.
Unbelievable. The digital Camo ACU is basically 'new' and hundreds of MILLIONS was spent on its development to be a 'Universal', one size fits all (terrain) Camo. Forget the millions in distribution to soldiers. This 'new' digital Camo resulted from the Army realizing the 'Desert Camo' issued during the Gulf War didn't really look like the desert.(1)
Leave it to Army bureaucrats to waste money (head shaking). Maybe they should just order everything from Cabella's and be done with it. (but then Murtha couldn't line his pockets could he)
(1) Per documentary on the Mil Channel.
'scuse me for buttin' in but that IS a Brit in the pic.
If you click and read the article that picture has a caption. 'Photo courtesy of the British Ministry of Defence'(sic)
Carry on.
It’s called MARPAT. In use with our forces today.
The last DOD “best-to-worst” ranking I saw for camo patterns went something like this:
1. RealTree
2. new British pattern
3. Multicam
4. MARPAT
5. ACU
well hell...give the contract to Bill Jordan....give it to an American company.
While the sand-coloured ‘beige’ beret is SAS, some regiments wear a khaki beret which under certain lighting conditions doesn’t look much different.
I can’t get a good view of his cap badge, but it looks like it could be the Yorkshire Regiment and they wear the khaki beret.
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