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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:26:49 AM EDT
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What color of beret, though?
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:28:25 AM EDT
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What color of beret, though? this is another thing that fucking puzzles me "well, we could just use the tan one because it matches a little bit better. LOL actually fuck that shit, let's troll the fucking shit out of the rangers lolollolol" |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:29:13 AM EDT
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What color of beret, though? Raspberry, of course. 
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:29:46 AM EDT
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In Before The Couch Pic.
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:32:15 AM EDT
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Inaccurate title is inaccurate.
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:32:25 AM EDT
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From the article:
“Essentially, the Army designed a universal uniform that universally failed in every environment,” said an Army specialist who served two tours in Iraq, wearing UCP in Baghdad and the deserts outside Basra. “The only time I have ever seen it work well was in a gravel pit.” The specialist asked that his name be withheld because he wasn’t authorized to speak to the press. In before douchebags start calling him a traitor. |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:33:53 AM EDT
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Quoted: Inaccurate title is inaccurate. It probably is. What would a more accurate title be? |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:34:45 AM EDT
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Fucking traitor ass traitor Specialist.
Ain't nothing good ever come out of an E-4!  |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:36:08 AM EDT
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From the article: “Essentially, the Army designed a universal uniform that universally failed in every environment,” said an Army specialist who served two tours in Iraq, wearing UCP in Baghdad and the deserts outside Basra. “The only time I have ever seen it work well was in a gravel pit.” The specialist asked that his name be withheld because he wasn’t authorized to speak to the press. In before douchebags start calling him a traitor. I don't think anyone would call him a traitor over that. He's just telling a truth that I heard from any soldier who ever depended on the uniform to conceal them in peace or war. I heard nothing but complaints about it, one of the major ones being when I was going to get some stuff from the laundry, and a PSG pulled up, literally, with a car load of ACU bottoms and asked Mamma-san to re enforce the crotch areas, because the uniform had a habit of blowing out the crotch. |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:37:36 AM EDT
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Inaccurate title is inaccurate. It probably is. What would a more accurate title be? Switching TO Multicam, as opposed to BACK TO Multicam......As I understand the process. |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:38:24 AM EDT
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Maybe just switch to MARPAT
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:38:43 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:40:59 AM EDT
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But until the new pattern is put in the field — a move that’s still a year or more away — soldiers in Afghanistan have been given a temporary fix: a greenish, blended replacement called MultiCam. The changeover came only after several non-commissioned officers complained to late Pennsylvania Rep. John Murtha, and he took up the cause in 2009. Outside of Afghanistan, the rest of the Army is still stuck with the gray Universal Camouflage Pattern, or UCP. And some soldiers truly hate it.
Shamne that Murtha, of all people had to champion the cause. |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:44:46 AM EDT
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I'm all for getting Multi-Cam or something simular, but they better give me a one-for-one swap on all my ACU shit. I finally got all the high speed jackets, coats and parkas.
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:45:34 AM EDT
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Funny. I don't see "Army", "ACU", "camo", or "Multicam" in the thread title. |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:46:51 AM EDT
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I'm all for getting Multi-Cam or something simular, but they better give me a one-for-one swap on all my ACU shit. I finally got all the high speed jackets, coats and parkas. I feel awful for my son. He just literally reported to his unit today and he's going to have to replace is whole kit within a year or so. |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:47:23 AM EDT
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What color of beret, though? 
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:48:45 AM EDT
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i for one am excited about the piles of the old stuff that is going to fill surplus stores. :)
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:49:36 AM EDT
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i for one am excited about the piles of the old stuff that is going to fill surplus stores. :) Correct me if I am wrong, but they will shred it, thanks to Clinton.... |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:49:59 AM EDT
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What color of beret, though? http://www.asia.ru/images/target/photo/51114123/Clown_Hat.jpg Yee-haw, Jester's dead!
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:50:03 AM EDT
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All field uniforms for all services should be AOR1,AOR2 or Multicam depending on the environment.
Having different uniforms for the different services when we are broke is ridiculous. Not to mention it complicates force identification. Further, unless your rear-end is getting in a cockpit within the next 2 - 3 hours, you shouldn't be wearing a flight suit, this escpecially goes for people that "operate" satellites / drones, as I am unaware of where the cockpit is on these particular craft. |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:50:38 AM EDT
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i for one am excited about the piles of the old stuff that is going to fill surplus stores. :) Correct me if I am wrong, but they will shred it, thanks to Clinton.... well that's the last straw i'm heading to the hills 
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:53:19 AM EDT
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From the article: “Essentially, the Army designed a universal uniform that universally failed in every environment,” said an Army specialist who served two tours in Iraq, wearing UCP in Baghdad and the deserts outside Basra. “The only time I have ever seen it work well was in a gravel pit.” The specialist asked that his name be withheld because he wasn’t authorized to speak to the press. In before douchebags start calling him a traitor. I don't think anyone would call him a traitor over that. He's just telling a truth that I heard from any soldier who ever depended on the uniform to conceal them in peace or war. I heard nothing but complaints about it, one of the major ones being when I was going to get some stuff from the laundry, and a PSG pulled up, literally, with a car load of ACU bottoms and asked Mamma-san to re enforce the crotch areas, because the uniform had a habit of blowing out the crotch. all my pants have a habit of blowing out at the crotch |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:55:24 AM EDT
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From the article: “Essentially, the Army designed a universal uniform that universally failed in every environment,” said an Army specialist who served two tours in Iraq, wearing UCP in Baghdad and the deserts outside Basra. “The only time I have ever seen it work well was in a gravel pit.” The specialist asked that his name be withheld because he wasn’t authorized to speak to the press. In before douchebags start calling him a traitor. If you want the no shit truth about anything, go talk to a specialist. If Obama/politicians/the American people got the no shit truth about Afghanistan from specialists rather than politicized power hungry generals, we would be fighting this war in an entirely different manner, or not fighting it at all. |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:55:56 AM EDT
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Fuck that guy and his bullshit thread title.  |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:56:10 AM EDT
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Don't you just love how everything goes from being wonderful and smart and scientific and perfect,
and everyone just loves it, and says everyone who doesn't love it is a moron, then a few years goes by, and the excitement wears off, and then all the sudden everyone admits that it sucks ass kind of like Obama's presidency! |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:56:32 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Inaccurate title is inaccurate. It probably is. What would a more accurate title be? Switching TO Multicam, as opposed to BACK TO Multicam......As I understand the process. I'll change it if what you're saying is more accurate than what I've written. |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:57:53 AM EDT
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Inaccurate title is inaccurate. |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 7:58:01 AM EDT
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Acu's was a shitty idea and blend in to jack shit.
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:01:40 AM EDT
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Maybe just switch to MARPAT Funny...I was just thinking that!
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:04:02 AM EDT
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Damn, now I need to find another camo pattern.
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:05:02 AM EDT
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Inaccurate title is inaccurate. It probably is. What would a more accurate title be? Switching TO Multicam, as opposed to BACK TO Multicam......As I understand the process. I'll change it if what you're saying is more accurate than what I've written. Just a suggestion as to what it might mean. I'm not in an uproar about it. Hell, now that I read the article, it's not that the Army is switching to Multi Cam, just that multi cam is the interim uni for deployed troops. |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:06:42 AM EDT
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Will the USAF follow?
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:08:15 AM EDT
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Further, unless your rear-end is getting in a cockpit within the next 2 - 3 hours, you shouldn't be wearing a flight suit, this escpecially goes for people that "operate" satellites / drones, as I am unaware of where the cockpit is on these particular craft. they are changing that. Only active pilots and aircrews will be authorized to wear flight suits. Its in the AF times. I think last months. |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:08:56 AM EDT
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Now, let's see how long it takes to re-equip everyone in the ARMY with new uniforms, boots, and every pack and pouch issued in ACU/UCP. I betting no less than another 8 years. Hell, I'll bet there are still units out there with the M16A2. Practically the whole Guard and Reserve are still waiting for the ASU to be issued.
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:09:14 AM EDT
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ACUs are garbage. Im glad the new pants are button though, and we can sew on badges and name tapes again.
the ACU was and is a huge disgrace. however Im not too happy about having to get a whole new slew of gear....i still have a bunch of woodland/DCU crap that i cant turn in. and i have a whole bunch of multicam crap still from afghanistan. interested to see what pops up for a new pattern I remember when the ACU was getting fielded, all kinds of different patterns on guys...ACU top and bottom, woodland IBA, tan shoulder DAPs, 
yeah.....here we go again |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:11:42 AM EDT
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I like how they blame the digital aspect, when it was the color choice that was fucking awful.
No black in nature! 
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:12:02 AM EDT
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Will the USAF follow? I don't see why the USAF doesn't go with OD utilities for everyone but pilots, spec ops, and guys that are actually out in the bushes with the bad guys. |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:15:44 AM EDT
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Why not just stay with MC instead of using it as a temporary fix?
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:16:30 AM EDT
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Mulitcam is the uniform that ALL services are to wear in AFGHANISTAN. Because it was too easy to target certain branches due to uniform variations. When the ragheads saw a group of soldiers in ACU's and 2 AF guys in ABU's, they would target the 2 AF guys thinking they were someone special (vice versa as well) Who ever was dressed differently must be important so they instantly became targets.
With the Joint Force operations going on, there are many branches serving together and it was very idiotic to have all these different uniforms. I like the multicam. It blends better in Afghan environment and looks kewl too. Why every branch picked a fucked up uniform version in the first place I will never know. Have you seen that NAVY obomination???? The only one I truly like is the Marines Desert Digis and Im not a jarhead so I wouldnt be able wear them.. but EVERY branch is now issued MULTICAM before deploying to AFGHANISTAN. Even the Puddle-pirates... |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:17:09 AM EDT
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Why not just stay with MC instead of using it as a temporary fix? Expense, I'm sure. Not that tossing 5 billion down the toilet WASN'T expensive when an off the shelf design was right there waiting. |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:17:47 AM EDT
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The story of the birth of Coyote Brown:
“They [USMC] went to Home Depot, looked at paint swatches, and said, ‘We want that color,’ ” said Anabelle Dugas, a textile technologist at Natick who helped develop the pattern. That particular hue, she added, was part of a paint series then sold by Ralph Lauren.
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:17:57 AM EDT
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What color of beret, though? http://www.asia.ru/images/target/photo/51114123/Clown_Hat.jpg 
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:18:11 AM EDT
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I'm all for getting Multi-Cam or something simular, but they better give me a one-for-one swap on all my ACU shit. I finally got all the high speed jackets, coats and parkas. I feel awful for my son. He just literally reported to his unit today and he's going to have to replace is whole kit within a year or so. You think the Army moves that fast, AH HELL NO. He will have that shit uniform for years. |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:20:10 AM EDT
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I'm all for getting Multi-Cam or something simular, but they better give me a one-for-one swap on all my ACU shit. I finally got all the high speed jackets, coats and parkas. I feel awful for my son. He just literally reported to his unit today and he's going to have to replace is whole kit within a year or so. You think the Army moves that fast, AH HELL NO. He will have that shit uniform for years. I still live around Hood. It didn't take them long to do the ACU change. |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:20:23 AM EDT
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Why not just stay with MC instead of using it as a temporary fix? Expense, I'm sure. Not that tossing 5 billion down the toilet WASN'T expensive when an off the shelf design was right there waiting. I'm sure its high but they've already got a head start on acquisition from Afghanistan don't they? How much is the R&D running for this new design, plus the subsequent implementation cost? |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:20:38 AM EDT
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Why not just stay with MC instead of using it as a temporary fix? this is what should happen MARPAT green and tan, should have been the entire DOD replacement for the BDU/DCU |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:24:09 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Inaccurate title is inaccurate. It probably is. What would a more accurate title be? "Gun-boiling Canadian uses sausage fingers to mash Tapco-fucked Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V keys yet again" |
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:25:34 AM EDT
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now that the war is over...uniforms helping our troops hide is more important than ever.........................
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Posted: 6/26/2012 8:26:21 AM EDT
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Does the article ACTUALLY say the Army is switching everyone to Multi-Cam?
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