Army announces new camouflage uniform pattern (again!)

Stars & Stripes ^ | August 1, 2014 | Chris Carroll

[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.

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[headstamp 2]

Was that used by Green Berets mostly?

[Rashputin]

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.

[tumblindice]

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.

[American in Israel]

The gayer they look, the less everyone likes it.

[HiTech RedNeck]

True enough, the non-gay agree about that.

[Rashputin]

And on them, it's oriented with the light and shadows, vertically when they're in their normal upright or crouching stance.

[B4Ranch]

I’ve always thought that they should be able to turn the shirt inside out for a quick change of patterns.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Too good an idea for anyone to do it

[SandRat]

What some us called Salad Suit.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Name your illness... h2o2? okay, what does it do for polio?

[dfwgator]

It seems they are changing their uniforms as often as the Oregon football team.

[Bogey78O]

All to keep folks employed making uniforms. Meanwhile we have fewer folks to wear them because we don’t have money for that.

[Mr Rogers]

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.

[ansel12]

Summer camo should be cooler.

[cva66snipe]

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.

[Rashputin]

AFAIK, yes they were the ones issued it.

[Rashputin]

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.

[OneWingedShark]

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:

[easternsky]

We wore the olive drap in Vietnam 67 68