Army Rolls Out Plan to Field New Camouflage Pattern.

Military.com via Foxnews.com ^ | June 01, 2015

[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."

[MaxMax]

Urban Camouflage

[Popman]

Maybe I'm not informed, but why do the soldiers who will never see combat action or engagement need to have camouflage uniforms ?...

Seems as much money they spend on uniforms, using a simple green uniform for such people would be financially prudent..

Maybe one of you veterans can explain this to me..

[raybbr]

I can see his boots. Aim about six feet away.

At first glance, though I thought “ Why is Daffynition posting a picture of couch?”

[mad_as_he$$]

That is the official Jade Helm cammo pattern.

[CIB-173RDABN]

I remember the first few month I was in Viet Nam. All I had were stateside fatigues and regular boots. The fatigues even had my name tag (white) and US ARMY (green and yellow) as well as my jump wings (white). Some camouflage!

As my fatigues rotted away they were replaced with jungle fatigues and at some point I got the new boots.

[SandRat]

Basically a happy return to the Salad Suit that I wore for half of my career. Pickle Suit for the first half.

[jmcenanly]

With this regime, I’m surprised that it wasn’t blaze Orange.

[MeshugeMikey]

Tribute Camo ...for Yassuh Arafat.

this would be SO very Inclusive!

[GreyFriar]

soldiers buy it with their authorized clothing allowance to purchase new uniform items when the old ones wear out.

[MeshugeMikey]

the houndstooth check favored by middle eastern mooselims..and made famous by yassir arafat...

its high time the military caught up with NASA and their Mooselm Outrach...

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"In the close fight, soldiers rely on camouflage to provide concealment, and that is critically important to their mission effectiveness."

So are Rules of Engagement that actually make sense.

[Lazamataz]

Pic at Link. So what to my United States Army "brethren" think of this?

It doesn't work. I can clearly see the troop.

[Lee Enfield]

An administration spokes person stated that the grease paint, red nose and floppy shoes are ready now, but Lockheed’s mil spec lapel flower squirt gun was still having software problems.

[ThunderSleeps]

That's what I'm thinking. Didn't we just do this not too long ago?

If any service needs new uniforms it is the Navy. Their blue camo is idiotic. The only thing it will blend into is the ocean. Guess what. If you're in the ocean, in your uniform, you probably didn't just go for a swim, you probably fell overboard and *want* to be seen. Sheesh.

[StAntKnee]

That’s my mother-in law’s-couch

[MeshugeMikey]

[Lion Den Dan]

You could not be more correct. Further, we rush to get the soldier decked out in a new uniform that is scarcely observable UNDER all the outer gear he wears in combat which will retain current patterns for the foreseeable future.

[momtothree]

Don’t worry, StAntKnee... I heard she left it to you in her will. :)

[MeshugeMikey]

with an eye towards Mooselim Outreach

[Covenantor]

Oh yeah!

Perfect for infiltrating the violent Grateful Dead fans at concerts!