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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 wont 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.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: army; boondoggle; camouflage; fail; uniform; usarmy; wasteofmoney
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posted on
08/02/2014 8:34:14 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Resist in place.)
To: Rashputin
Was that used by Green Berets mostly?
To: LT Brass Bancroft
Sounds really, really, loud during those times your buttons are keeping you too far off the ground, too. If you know what I mean, I guess.
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posted on
08/02/2014 8:35:06 PM PDT
by
Rashputin
(Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
To: SpaceBar
For a short while, Americans wore camouflage during the hedge fighting in the days following the Normandy landings. It was the same pattern worn by our Marines in the Pacific theater. They stopped wearing it because it looked too much like SS flektarn camo.
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posted on
08/02/2014 8:35:19 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
The gayer they look, the less everyone likes it.
45
posted on
08/02/2014 8:36:24 PM PDT
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: American in Israel
True enough, the non-gay agree about that.
46
posted on
08/02/2014 8:36:57 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.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
And on them, it's oriented with the light and shadows, vertically when they're in their normal upright or crouching stance.
47
posted on
08/02/2014 8:39:06 PM PDT
by
Rashputin
(Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
I’ve always thought that they should be able to turn the shirt inside out for a quick change of patterns.
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posted on
08/02/2014 8:39:57 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
To: B4Ranch
Too good an idea for anyone to do it
49
posted on
08/02/2014 8:42:03 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.)
To: Timber Rattler
What some us called Salad Suit.
50
posted on
08/02/2014 8:42:25 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: B4Ranch
Name your illness... h2o2? okay, what does it do for polio?
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posted on
08/02/2014 8:42:41 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.)
To: Timber Rattler
It seems they are changing their uniforms as often as the Oregon football team.
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posted on
08/02/2014 8:43:56 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Timber Rattler
All to keep folks employed making uniforms. Meanwhile we have fewer folks to wear them because we don’t have money for that.
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posted on
08/02/2014 8:45:02 PM PDT
by
Bogey78O
(We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
To: Timber Rattler
If they would ditch the velcro, it would look a lot like the old stuff I have in the back of my closet...and I was USAF.
To: Timber Rattler
Summer camo should be cooler.
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posted on
08/02/2014 8:48:52 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
To: BBell
My father and uncle are retired sailors. We all thought the blue camos were silly. I mean if you fall over board how they going to find you? Yeah the two biggies was Man Overboard and Fires. Man Overboard meant you went to your work center immediately no matter what and no matter what attire. A shipmate was in the water and time mattered. Trying to locate someone in rough seas is difficult enough without uniform making matters more difficult.
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posted on
08/02/2014 8:53:56 PM PDT
by
cva66snipe
((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
To: headstamp 2
AFAIK, yes they were the ones issued it.
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posted on
08/02/2014 8:56:27 PM PDT
by
Rashputin
(Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
To: B4Ranch
Makes a lot of sense to me. The Corps had a poncho like that at one time, WWII, Korea, I don’t really know when I just saw one a guy I worked with had kept. Shades of green splotches on one side, tan and brown on the other.
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posted on
08/02/2014 8:59:38 PM PDT
by
Rashputin
(Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
To: BBell
My father and uncle are retired sailors. We all thought the blue camos were silly. I mean if you fall over board how they going to find you? Which means the standard navy uniform should feature this color:
If they really, really want cammo-pattern then they could have this as a secondary color:
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posted on
08/02/2014 9:02:37 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: headstamp 2
We wore the olive drap in Vietnam 67 68
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