This Bother Anyone Else?

[Cthulhu]

Slowly but surely they will all go to BROWN SHIRTS!
That's the plan.
Im so glad I retired.

Well say what you will about the Nazis but they were snappy dressers.

[vossman]

So much $$ was wasted on the service specific camo. The AF still has different vendors making this stuff and the colors dont match. There's a gray version, yellowish version and then the greenish color. Its a joke. Now their gonna waste a shit ton more $$ with source selection, test patterns and of course the users have to buy all new stuff at a higher price. The AF knew their tigerstripe pattern, color was ineffective and wasteful but they went ahead anyway. There were several articles on it last year. They reissue the AF guys new Army ACU's when they get into theater.

[Great-Kazoo]

Not at all. it was either BDU's or Dress Blues way back when.

[Great-Kazoo]

So much $$ was wasted on the service specific camo. The AF still has different vendors making this stuff and the colors dont match. There's a gray version, yellowish version and then the greenish color. Its a joke. Now their gonna waste a shit ton more $$ with source selection, test patterns and of course the users have to buy all new stuff at a higher price. The AF knew their tigerstripe pattern, color was ineffective and wasteful but they went ahead anyway. There were several articles on it last year. They reissue the AF guys new Army ACU's when they get into theater.

Or the fall collection becomes available

[jreifsch80]

Well say what you will about the Nazis but they were snappy dressers.

hugo boss designed the nazi's uniforms, seriously

[UncleDave]

hugo boss designed the nazi's uniforms, seriously

Beat me to it! You got to love Hugo Boss.

[Rabid]

Plenty of information on why here: http://www.hyperstealth.com/camo-improvement/index.html and if this becomes a reality it would be great: http://www.hyperstealth.com/Quantum-Stealth/
I see it as why not give our troops the best but at the same time how does it cost so much money to put it through trials. It seems the private sector already bares a lot of the burden on camo patterns.

[Ronin13]

Mossy oak!

No... just no! We want to look like a professional fighting force, not a bunch of back country sister loving hillbillies...

The service specific camos was a stupid idea.

Yep.

BDUs was the answer back in the day.

That's what I don't get... What was wrong with BDUs? Need to fight in the desert? No problem, here is our desert pattern BDU. It's not like we really "camouflage" anymore anyway- modern warfare is fought from big, noisy vehicles and dismounted patrols where we're not exactly hiding. The only hiding I've really seen are LP/OPs and Special operations, which they are not subject to the same uniform standards as the "regular" grunts. I would be all for adopting Multi-cam or just moving the woodland and desert MARPAT to all branches.

[Jer]

I don't know, different camos is pretty fly!

[Inconel710]

The sad part is that after wasting millions of dollars on the service specific patterns, we're going to waste millions more on this "new" pattern. No way in hell will they do something responsible like pick Multicam.