Comments on: A Better Cammo Pattern?

By: SGT Boggs

SGT Boggs — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:11:36 +0000

The digital pattern is good, but I don’t understand the grey. I think the rebs of the south would like it though. It needs to go. The Army needs to stay green with differnt shades of green.

By: Archlord money

Archlord money — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:53:39 +0000

In the Beach City is such fearfulness, I am owning many Archlord money in my pocket.

By: TF2-7

TF2-7 — Mon, 26 May 2008 08:42:32 +0000

BTDT, not impressed with the ACU’s. “Gray Man”???
What were they thinking, Cold war urban? Urban environments over in the war we are fighting are olive drab to tans in color and not gray. Digital tones do good with the right colors for the environment. The towns over there are not gray shades. If you are looking at some one a long way off with smog haze I might buy that approach, since most fights are under 300 meters, I want to blend in and Gray does not do that. If you are fighting the Soviets, that could be a different matter. However, we are fighting in mud hut villages and in tans colors mostly with olive drab colors.
The MARPAT Desert is nice.
Multi-cam got it right for a best solution role IMHO. If you have to wear this in the jungle, it will still be better than the ACU.
I’ve found the ACU works best when you lay down on gravel roads in camp on the way to chow hall, other than that, worthless.
I hope the boys at Natick Soldier Systems Center fix this problem for our guys. You don’t wear a Combat Uniform because of fashion, you wear it for blending to the environment we are war in.

By: Wren

Wren — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:40:56 +0000

I’m in the army and the ACUs don’t blend with the wood line of Korea or Washington state. ive seen pics of the multicam and it great. the way it can really blend in

By: Willie

Willie — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:08:41 +0000

Perhaps the fabric should add in certain colors depending on temperature. Extreme cold and the uniform turns mostly grey and white with a camo pattern. And when it’s really hot you have more tans and greys.
A better scheme would be an induced current to change the colors. So you could dial in desert, tropical, urban or artic patterns. The overall uniform would be grey, until the camo patterns are dialed in.
A plan I had years ago involved two sets of reversible pants sewn together at the legs. You could have 4 different uniforms available that way. And the shirts would be sewn together at the bottom to give you 4 shirt combinations. That way you’d have 4 camo varieties per uniform set.

By: PhilLeech

PhilLeech — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 19:33:29 +0000

Color is color. I don’t think you can fix that.

By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 05:10:55 +0000

The problem second to camo is breaking up the human profile. Perhaps if helmets were irregularly shaped to look more rocklike…

By: Sven Ortmann

Sven Ortmann — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 07:00:06 +0000

It’s enough if camo makes it very hard to aim at you when dust, vegetation or smoke limit visibility. Nobody want’s a stealth cloak.
The whole problem of optimum camo pattern is very complex. It depends on range, background, motions, daytime and use of vision aids, equipment worn over the pattern, use of additional camo materials in addition to the camo pattern and so on.
Distance for example — a very fine structured pattern is a one-colour surface at long range. A pattern with strong contrasts and large unicolor surfaces as the 80’s woodland pattern is easily recognizable ast small distance.
In my opinion camouflage should be based on not suspicious colours for the whole equip

By: BT

BT — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:50:49 +0000

Except for covert ops/SOF/snipers, blending with the environment is impossible. If you are on patrol, anywhere in the world, you will stick out like a sore thumb, regardless of the cammo pattern.
One thing that I never understood, is not using Kevlar and Nomex for the materials.

By: tsoldrin

tsoldrin — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:30:34 +0000

I think the ACU pattern was selected because it helps officials to hide from reporters against the blue-grey backdrop in the pentagon briefing room.