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Army announces new camouflage uniform pattern (again!)
Stars & Stripes ^ | August 1, 2014 | Chris Carroll

Posted on 08/02/2014 7:57:33 PM PDT by Timber Rattler

The Army has selected a new camouflage pattern to begin fielding next year, an unidentified senior Army spokesperson announced in a statement late Thursday.

“The Army has confirmed through testing that the pattern would offer exceptional concealment, which directly enhances force protection and survivability for Soldiers,” according to the statement from the Army.

The pattern will be used in all combatant commands, including Afghanistan, the Army said. Uniforms and equipment with the existing pattern won’t be discarded, but replaced only as they wear out.

The pattern was developed by the Army under the name Scorpion W2 to replace the much-maligned Universal Camouflage Pattern, a pixelated combination of green, gray and tan that some soldiers said provided bad concealment in most places.

(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: army; boondoggle; camouflage; fail; uniform; usarmy; wasteofmoney
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After spending millions more, in light of the current soldier RIFs, the Army ultimately decides to go back to bleached out NATO-pattern woodland camo from the 1980s-1990s?


1 posted on 08/02/2014 7:57:34 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

Sorry I expected pink...


2 posted on 08/02/2014 8:00:07 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Timber Rattler

Muted flecktarn.


3 posted on 08/02/2014 8:00:09 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998

I liked the Vietnam Tiger stripe myself.


4 posted on 08/02/2014 8:02:09 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: Timber Rattler

A Gilly suit for everybody. LOL


5 posted on 08/02/2014 8:03:12 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: Timber Rattler

I was reading the history of my Father’s WWII outfit and one thing caught my interest.

Their commander sent several hundred boots in for repair. I suspect that they would just throw them away now.


6 posted on 08/02/2014 8:03:53 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: Timber Rattler

guessing an Zero donor needs some revenue to be donated back to the Rats......


7 posted on 08/02/2014 8:07:11 PM PDT by Hogblog
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To: Timber Rattler

What the best camo is, will depend so much on where the troops garbed in it are deployed. Why does there have to be just one pattern? Uniforms surely can’t be so pricey that there can not be a choice of patterns for various missions, just like there is a choice of weaponry.


8 posted on 08/02/2014 8:08:21 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Timber Rattler

New? Looks like the older, old pattern.


9 posted on 08/02/2014 8:08:39 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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I was on a seabee base in Mississippi and there were about 6 different camouflage utilities. The Navy had a blue and green pair. The Marines had a green and brown pair. The air force had their own pattern and then there was the Army pattern.

When I was in the Corps in the 80's every branch wore the same one. The head gear differed though.

10 posted on 08/02/2014 8:09:41 PM PDT by BBell (I'm cynical and sarcastic and therefore I love Ann Coulter)
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To: Timber Rattler

Made in China, too?


11 posted on 08/02/2014 8:10:59 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: HiTech RedNeck

It probably is about as good as any for woodlands.

I just glanced at my “Realtree” overalls hanging on a chair and there is a lot of difference and I think for this area the Realtree is better.


12 posted on 08/02/2014 8:11:19 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: onedoug

If not in El Salvador


13 posted on 08/02/2014 8:11:25 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Timber Rattler
follow the money...
14 posted on 08/02/2014 8:11:26 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: yarddog

Commercial camos are probably best, just because they have to make it in the market.

Right now most of the activity is in the Middle East where they don’t have a lot of woodlands. Is this one more attempt to come up with a compromise that will work in both desert and woodland?


15 posted on 08/02/2014 8:12:54 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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New? Looks like the older, old pattern.

Yep, looks strikingly similar to the original nomex version of the BDU I wore back in the late 90s. Third uniform change for the Army in less than a decade...but, hey, DoD uniform contractors gotta eat too.

16 posted on 08/02/2014 8:13:18 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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What the best camo is, will depend so much on where the troops garbed in it are deployed.

True but why can't all the services wear the same pattern of green, brown etc? Each branch having their own style is very costly. When I was in all the services wore the same style, be it green or brown.

17 posted on 08/02/2014 8:14:52 PM PDT by BBell (I'm cynical and sarcastic and therefore I love Ann Coulter)
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"New? Looks like the older, old pattern."

Very much so, 'specially doen at the trouser leg.

Probably vast warehouses full of the old ripstop stuff still unused.

18 posted on 08/02/2014 8:16:33 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Timber Rattler

How not to be seen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltmMJntSfQI


19 posted on 08/02/2014 8:16:48 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Timber Rattler

But what is the gay angle? There must be something gay. The only things that happen have something to do with gayness.


20 posted on 08/02/2014 8:17:07 PM PDT by ecomcon
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