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Posted: 11/11/2001 10:32:07 PM EDT
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I like my Desert Storm BDU's myself
"IM JUST OUTSIDE 29 PALMS MARINE BASE" Spring,Summer or Fall? 6 color?? I think Its just a fashion trend! HEHEHE no? really? I think its just another change for the budget increase? justifing their budget?IMHo |
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Posted: 11/11/2001 11:25:48 PM EDT
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I wore the six color day deserts for twelve years in the desert of Nevada. We've just changed out to tan BDU's.
The chocolate chip BDU's work great in this area. |
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Posted: 11/12/2001 11:48:24 AM EDT
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The old-style Choco-chip pattern is my fav. for the Mojave Desert.
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Posted: 11/12/2001 12:12:30 PM EDT
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The 6 color was found to "not blend in "as well as the 3 color back in '90-'91.
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Posted: 11/12/2001 12:16:56 PM EDT
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The chocolate chips were designed to work in the Mojave desert where the US trains for desert warfare.
When units went to the Middle East and later into the sandy deserts in SWA, it was found that the pattern that was based on a "rocky-high mountain desert" didn't work in a "sandy desert," hence he adoption of the 3 color cammies. |
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Posted: 11/12/2001 12:39:56 PM EDT
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Have they quit issuing the 6 color altogether? My impression was the same as STLRN's, that the two types are for different types of deserts.
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Posted: 11/12/2001 12:49:27 PM EDT
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Imposter
No they haven't. The 6 color is still maintained and issued in what would be almost considered a training and war reserve type supply. Normally you see it issued out to units doing OPFOR duty, or units whose primary mission is not the Middle East. The ones that are tasked to go to the middle east get the 3 color ones while those that will follow get the 6 color. |
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Posted: 11/12/2001 2:15:21 PM EDT
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The 6-color desert pattern actually works almost everywhere, and is better than Woodland except, perhaps, in the German forests that it was designed for. The 3-color is both ugly and only effective on "billiard-table desert" that has no features. Of course, that's what Kuwait and Iraq were...
-Troy |
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