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Army Rolls Out Plan to Field New Camouflage Pattern.
Military.com via Foxnews.com ^ | June 01, 2015

Posted on 06/02/2015 6:09:35 AM PDT by US Navy Vet

The U.S. Army has laid out a plan to outfit soldiers with the service's new camouflage pattern that uniform officials maintain will perform as well as the MultiCam pattern troops wear in Afghanistan.

Col. Bob Mortlock, the head of the Army's Project Manager Soldier Protection and Individual Equipment, sat down with reporters to discuss the long-awaited roll-out of the new Operational Camouflage Pattern, or OCP.

Mortlock described the adoption of the new pattern as an important step for the Army.

"It's important to the Army, and the reason it is important to the Army is because it is all about force protection," he said. "In the close fight, soldiers rely on camouflage to provide concealment, and that is critically important to their mission effectiveness."

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Pic at Link. So what to my United States Army "brethren" think of this?
1 posted on 06/02/2015 6:09:35 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: US Navy Vet

because we need to spend more money!


2 posted on 06/02/2015 6:10:16 AM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz - to defeat HilLIARy/Warren)
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To: US Navy Vet

Again? Sheesh.


3 posted on 06/02/2015 6:11:54 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Mr. K

The old uniforms have some grass stains on them. You didn’t expect them to wash them, did you?


4 posted on 06/02/2015 6:14:50 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: US Navy Vet

$102 for a uniform is too much


5 posted on 06/02/2015 6:15:43 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: US Navy Vet

Basically mini-Woodland pattern.

Never should have left Woodland for that stupid blue cyber crap.


6 posted on 06/02/2015 6:16:27 AM PDT by gaijin
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We'll spend millions to get a new uniform that "will perform as well as the MultiCam pattern troops wear in Afghanistan."

Millions for no improvement, except to the bottom line of the campaign donor uniform manufacturers.

Not to worry though, the sub-minimum wage front line soldiers have plenty of spare bucks to pay for the new uniforms out of their own pockets...

7 posted on 06/02/2015 6:16:39 AM PDT by null and void (I wish we lived in less interesting times, but at least we have front-row seats.)
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To: gaijin

“blue cyber crap” is the Navy.


8 posted on 06/02/2015 6:18:16 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: US Navy Vet
Im thinking it will probably end up looking something like the artists conception.. in the photo below...

The new Mooselim Outreach Camo!




9 posted on 06/02/2015 6:18:55 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: US Navy Vet
Another Army uniform change?
Will probably include those cute, made-in-China, berets.
Maybe in PC pink this time?
10 posted on 06/02/2015 6:19:01 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: US Navy Vet

Not very effective. I can still see him.


11 posted on 06/02/2015 6:20:38 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: US Navy Vet
This old soldier says Phooey!

The plain old olive drab uniforms, (pre-1980), worked just fine.

12 posted on 06/02/2015 6:20:57 AM PDT by PROCON (CRUZing into 2016 with Ted.)
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I read someplace that the new version is basically the Multicam with more black, vertical lines (to represent twigs).

So ..when do the troops have to start paying for their own weapons?


13 posted on 06/02/2015 6:21:37 AM PDT by moovova
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3295964/posts?page=9#9

my concept....and reasons for same....


14 posted on 06/02/2015 6:22:14 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: US Navy Vet

15 posted on 06/02/2015 6:23:15 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: MeshugeMikey

You’re bad! LOL.


16 posted on 06/02/2015 6:23:47 AM PDT by moovova
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To: MeshugeMikey

What is in the camo pattern, I can’t tell?


17 posted on 06/02/2015 6:24:14 AM PDT by PROCON (CRUZing into 2016 with Ted.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Why does a change exist?

We had OD. That wasnt good for SouthEast Asia, so we had jungle stripe. That wasnt good for the, then, threat
os Western Europe, so we had woodland camo. That wasnt good enough to fight saddam, so we went three
color then six color m and m dessrt camo. Then all the
mix up of camos, as per which arm of the military chose
their own slant on it.

Money, money, money spent on all those changes,
but why not make all those camo outfits
particular to the theater of operation, only?

I mean, military stationed in the swamps of
Louisiana wearing desert camo?

Or ... Is this new camo going to be used against the
American populace?


18 posted on 06/02/2015 6:24:24 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: MeshugeMikey

That’s it — the Camelflage
In another category — Rainbows!


19 posted on 06/02/2015 6:24:27 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Looks like “Houndstooth” .... very preppy.


20 posted on 06/02/2015 6:29:36 AM PDT by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~W.E. Johns)
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