Why UK forces are wearing a green camo ???

[ColonelAnov]

Why UK forces are wearing a green camo battle dress ???[/img]

[GearGod]

Which image are you referring to? In the image(s) below they are wearing DESERT clothing:

http://www4.aixgaming.com/opend/albums/Gulf_War_2_British_Forces_Operation_Telic/optelic129.jpg

http://www4.aixgaming.com/opend/albums/Gulf_War_2_British_Forces_Operation_Telic/optelic141.jpg

Perhaps they too were wearing their woodland colored chemical suits like the marines and didnt get a desert colored version of it

[DPM95]

Irak is not just plain sand. There are areas and cities (like Mosul) where there are more green vegetation than desert. Therefore it's not a bad idea to use desert trousers, and woodland jackets in some areas.

[Smintjes]

Or they could be suffering from the same problem the US Military has: they are out of desert fatigues.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2080736/

[Chris1]

you've got to be joking
Watching Bush's address to all those soldiers and airmen in Florida nearly all those I could see where in Tri-colour desert kit.
Do they need it in Florida?
I mean I know its a bit hot there but desert?
bah

For the UK
A mix of not enough and that the 'woodland' as you lot would call it being newer and better
Few of them would be wearing there NBC kit if they didn't have to.
(only the really brave or really stupid ones anyway :) )

[Knave]

Could be worse.

Canadian troops filed out in Afghanistan wearing FULL woodland camo. We don't have desert camo to begin with.

The Canadian defense minister was asked why we hadn't purchased it, and instead of saying we couldn't afford it - which they can't - he said that the woodland camo actually would help the Canadian troops because it would confuse and decieve the enemy against the background of featureless desert.

More military expertise from a political stooge.

I can hear it now;

"Hey, Akbar! Look! There's a row of bushes moving across the desert!"

Alas, the Canadians ended up 'borrowing' uniforms from the British.... the men on the ground (correctly) assumed that wearing green in a predominantly beige countryside would end up getting them killed.

[Chris1]

nah thats a classic military mind at work
the Classical period being 1914-1918
"Hey, I've got an idea lets walk slowly towards them again"
"But we did that last time, and the time before that, and the time before that..."
"EXACTLY! they'll never expect it!"


(Blackadder goes forth, quote massacred and left for dead by me)

[Knave]

"Hey, I've got an idea lets walk slowly towards them again"
"But we did that last time, and the time before that, and the time before that..."
"EXACTLY! they'll never expect it!"


My great-grandfather was a British infantryman in the trenches for most of the First War.... I remember hearing some of his passed-down stories about classically-trained British officers not knowing how to deal with trench warfare and saying something not dissimilar to what you quoted... ;)

[Piccolo]

Kave, actually you guys do had a Desert CADPAT. It's called AR, for Arid Region. It was around when Canadians deployed to Afghan, but not in inventory yet. Also, I've heard of a few Canadian Snipers who got some surplus british DPM desert kit back in Canada before shipping out. I'm sure some got some in the field too, but I guess a few decided to get theirs before leaving.

[Knave]

Kave, actually you guys do had a Desert CADPAT. It's called AR, for Arid Region. It was around when Canadians deployed to Afghan, but not in inventory yet. Also, I've heard of a few Canadian Snipers who got some surplus british DPM desert kit back in Canada before shipping out. I'm sure some got some in the field too, but I guess a few decided to get theirs before leaving.

It was probably issued to the Generals in Ottawa first, because all of the troops filed off the Airlift in Afghanistan wearing woodland, and desert camo boots, apparently.... the joke goes that they were deliberately equipped that way so that our Prime Minister - who sounds more and more senile with each passing week - could easily spot our troops when they showed up in the newspaper.

The PPCLI snipers in Afghanistan.... I honestly don't know the origins of their British kit, other than it's embarrassing to be using hand-me-downs in a combat zone when we've made a committment.

Even our ground equipment in some cases was borrowed - some of our troops were pictured on the front page of a national newspaper driving a US Humvee; our own jeeps were inadequate for traversing Afghani terrain.