Quick Request: What is the actual Woodland Camo Pattern of the US Forces?
Hi! What title says.
I heard they changed or modified the pattern. Is this true?
The US employs a variety of different camo schemes. The Marines have one, the Airforce has one and the Army has one. There are probably more. AFAIK, the Army only uses one type of camo - the greyish/white one, which is supposed to be universal.
The marines use the Digital Camo in normal Woodland, and IIRC, the Airforce still use Tiger Stripes, right?
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Thanks M8! Thats what I think as well... so nothing heard about any changes to the pattern within the Marines or Army (to get more specified)?
Not that I've heard of at least. But I'm not really qualified to comment such stuff. I'm not American, but AFAIK, they aren't changing.
I have heard complaints about the Army's camo pattern, saying it's too bright, or too dark, not green enough, too green, too grey, not white enough, etc... IMO, it's because they don't really know what they want. The same goes for Iraq, Afghanistan, Infantry Weapons (we wan't the M4 to be deadly at superlong ranges!), Body Armour (we wan't better protection. No! not that one, that's too heavy. Neither that one, it doesn't protect well enough). You get the picture.
And, no offense intended, but that's just the way I've seen things lately.
AFAIK the Army uses ACU (on pictures you can see various equipment in Woodland and Desertcamo), Marines MARPAT in Woodland and Desert Camo + Nomex flight suits in Coyote/Tan and OD scheme and the Airforce uses a uniform which looks like a digital Tigerstrip.
Not sure on the Airforce part.
Gray tigerstripe fro sureOriginally Posted by HappyHeady
i re-make camo on computers for video games..
M81 woodland, lime ERDL, brown ERDL, NWU Woodland blue or grey, US urban, are all simular but not the same, NWU and US urban were trialed but not used... like t-pattern
M81 woodland 1981-present
Previously by US Army, US Marine Corps.
Currently by US Air Force, US Navy, US Coast Guard, US Public Health Service, State Defense Forces, LAPD SWAT, other law enforcement agencies Also known as "M81 General Purpose Pattern". This 4-color pattern provided a good, general purpose camouflage for temperate and tropical environments. It was the most popular, most recognizable and most widely used camouflage pattern in the world, and still is today.
ERDL Pattern US Army, US Marine Corps Predecessor of M81 Woodland
MARPAT (woodland and desert variants) U.S. Marine Corps (USMC)
Universal Camouflage Pattern (ACU) U.S. Army
Not really, it's the same colors as the Army ACU.
T-pattern is a pretty unique one isn't it. Thats the one they wore on some exercise in a big coastal city, right? I like it because it has straight geometric edges, like buildings - unlike someone changing all the colours in a regular pattern into greys, which is the right colours but the wrong pattern. You often hear that 'there are no straight lines in nature', well I'd say the reverse is also true for cam when operating in an urban area!
Perhaps NWU would also make a decent urban cam, who knows. But I really do not see its point for naval use - issue something like the Coastguard ODUs, or coveralls, or like the Royal Navy does. Its just got to be practical, hardwearing and flame retardent - no cam pattern required.
But I will stop with the NWU-bashing here as I don't want to pull this thread off topic too much!
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