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Liberal_Spy:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-hero-project/articles/2013/10/14/the-army-s-5-billion-new-uniform-already-being-replaced.html

PzLdr:
Waffen SS camo should be going pretty cheap. And it was pretty good.

NavyCanDo:
The Army has been replacing the unpopular Universal Camouflage Pattern (UPC) for a couple of years now with the much better MultiCam pattern that was introduced in 2010.   
But it’s not a waste of money to replace the UPC as some critics say. The waste of money was adopting the UPC in the first place.
Soldiers hate the UPC adopted in 2004.   They performed horribly in Afghanistan. One of the top complaints is at night they stand out like a chemlight making soldiers easy targets for snipers once the sun goes down.  And the UPC colors would be suitable for a battle in a gravel pit, but for the high desert they did stood out like a sore thumb. The hostiles have a huge advantage dressing like villagers and using more earthy colors that blended in far better, and they learned how to  easily disappear into the terrain or into a crowd of villagers.   

Ford289HiPo:

--- Quote from: NavyCanDo on October 15, 2013, 06:54:24 pm ---   They performed horribly in Afghanistan. One of the top complaints is at night they stand out like a chemlight making soldiers easy targets for snipers once the sun goes down. 


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Those uniforms performed horribly everywhere. The camo pattern is useless. I don't know who had the bright idea of using velcro on uniforms, but they should be slapped.

EC:

--- Quote from: Ford289HiPo on October 15, 2013, 08:21:23 pm ---Those uniforms performed horribly everywhere. The camo pattern is useless. I don't know who had the bright idea of using velcro on uniforms, but they should be slapped.

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Nay, mate. Stick them out on patrol in the "oh shit" zone and needing something from one of their pockets.

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