USMC going to MARPAT web gear? (pic)

[wild_wild_wes]

I recall hearing somewhere recently that the Marines are going to transition from Coyote colored web gear to items made with Woodland MARPAT fabric. Here is one example:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a197/AyeGuy/mp1.jpg

Anyone have any more info?

[James]

That's a ruck sack, not deuce gear.

[Ratamacue]

If they were, I doubt they'd be ordering their new MTVs in coyote brown.

[Jarhead]

Thats an ILBE

[maple.leaf]

Well, Tactical Tailor are now offering a lot of their MAV kit in MARPAT - supposedly at the request of the Marines...

[wild_wild_wes]

I wonder about that. All other MARPAT gear I've seen has Coyote webbing and fastex buckles (see pic above), while the TT stuff has Green webbing and Black buckles.

[TacoDelRio]

Do you mean the nylon webbing/straps and buckles, or just the overall scheme of things?

[wild_wild_wes]

TT uses USMC reg MARPAT for the basic fabric, but like I said the webbing, tape, straps etc. are Green instead of Coyote, and the plastic bucles are Black, not Coyote. The overall effect is to give their gear a different look than like in the pic above.

[USMC Tanker]

The Marine Corps isn't changing their issued gear.

I don't know why you're concerned with what Tactical Tailor is producing. They're trying to provide products that may/may not appeal to individual Marines' preferences, not for the Marine Corps' mass acquisitions.

[JKinnaird]

that pack is an ILCE, that has been issued for some time now. Tactical Tailor has been coming out with a MARPAT line. I an not sure if any other companies are.