Last summer, the U.S. Army confirmed that soldiers will begin wearing the new Army Combat Uniform (ACU) that bears the Operational Camouflage Pattern (OCP) – also known as Scorpion W2. They are now ...
WASHINGTON — The Army’s green-blue-gray Universal Camouflage Pattern, once touted as a do-it-all uniform concealment design, is officially dead. The Army’s wear-out date for UCP-schemed combat ...
The U.S. Air Force has, for about a year, been testing a new work uniform that employs a new camouflage pattern. But feedback from the troops indicated dissatisfaction with the color pattern used. The ...
The Army begins its transition to new combat uniforms in a month, the Army said Monday, but soldiers can expect a lot of mixing and matching of camo items for the next several years. The uniforms with ...
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Nov. 30, 2015) -- As winter weather approaches and temperatures drop, Soldiers turn to their cold-weather gear to keep warm outdoors while conducting training or ...
A Congressional committee voted Wednesday to end service-specific camouflage in an amendment that would push the military toward creating joint combat uniforms by 2018. Committee members expressed ...
Many would probably never reach for the camouflage pattern. 2026 could convince them to give the print a chance after all.
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Like other camouflage, the MARPAT pattern is designed to blend the wearer with his or her surroundings to make them less visible to the naked eye. MARPAT camouflage ...
Here’s What You Need to Know: The U.S. Marines’ combat camo, MARPAT, blends the wearer to his surroundings through the use of pixilated fractals, essentially rectangular pixels, which camouflages the ...