Army Goes Multicam?

[army_grunt_11B]

Sorry I can't scan in the Army Times paper to prove my story, It was the June issue I believe? BUT the ARMY is going to issue Multi-Cam to Units going to A-Stan, It wont start tell 2010ish though, and its only units deploying to A-Stan,

[Javelin66]

This may be what you are talking about:

http://www.military.com/news/article...orm-probe.html

Don't confuse a test and evalutation with a decision to field the uniform. Four sets of multicam times several thousand troops at $50-$100 a set adds up.

Do you mean to say that half of SF guys have 'beards'?

[army_grunt_11B]

Negative on that article, It was printed weeks before that, I was still in GA when it was printed, so it was May or June Issue, I read it a few times over since I was in AA at the time bored out of my mind to make sure, it sayed the Army was being forced to find a new Uniform (Not necessarly Multi Cam, but it pointed heavly into that way) for Operations in A-Stan, and they had picked a picked a digital Camo that worked well in Desert and Jungle enviorments, that they planned to start giving to Units deploying after 2010 to that region.

[mtnsldr]

Yes, there was an article about a congressional inquiry into creating an alternate uniform for operations in Iraq. I don't remember it saying that MultiCam was going to win the contract, and I don't remember it saying that it was even a directive yet...

PFC, you know what assumptions get you, right?

[army_grunt_11B]

Roger Sir, My mistake, my apologies

[ArmyJrotc Raider]

Sorry for ressurection of this thread but look what I came across!

http://www.army.mil/-news/2009/10/30...headline-link0

I came across this just now and it bascially talks about the improvements of the ACU's from thicker seats, to IR tabs, but towards the end of the article, a new pattern. The Army is currently testing UCP - Delta (a variant of the current pattern but with a cayote brown color to break the grey and greens) and.....Multicam. I just wanted to share this with you all. Whatever helps protect the lives of the ones who protect us.

[mtnsldr]

My old unit will be one of the "test" elements for UCP-D. This won't solve the issue of Congress asking for one uniform for all services. To me it would make more sense to solve that issue first, make it the BEST choice out there, then field it out to all the folks going into the field, but what do I know...

[Sandbagger]

Originally Posted by mtnsldr

My old unit will be one of the "test" elements for UCP-D. This won't solve the issue of Congress asking for one uniform for all services. To me it would make more sense to solve that issue first, make it the BEST choice out there, then field it out to all the folks going into the field, but what do I know...

This is where I'm coming from. When I worked uniform issue back in '04, the fact that we all wore DCU's helped me to support, USAF, Army or Navy personnel.

[ArmyJrotc Raider]

Having read a lot of airsoft forums, and articles on the replacement, or improvement of the ACU, my mind is in jumbles of having seeing a bunch of different camouflages around the world that have all been proved exceptional in the battlefield. But the question that still lingers is, How to make it all better? So the questions I am asking the active, senior, and experienced members of this forum are, what would you use. what are your designs, and what works? comparisons from my studies of the camouflages that are working well, for airsoft junkies, are Multicam, Mirage camo, MARPAT woodland and desert, and ACU (select conditions only). Please provide a description of your choice/design too, to prevent "one liners."

[Sandbagger]

I'm of the camp that believes that a good disruptive pattern on a uniform which effectively reflects ambient colors (in the sense that if you hold a red balloon up to a white wall that the white wall reflects the color red) is more important than matching every different color in every single environment.

The UCP does both of these rather effectively. The contention comes in the way that it does it without the use of pleasing earth tones. In theory, you could apply the disruptive pattern and reflective qualities of the UCP to browns, tans and greens and get a very effective pattern. This is what I would endorse. It would be like the MARPAT only a few shades lighter.

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