I'm going to piss off a bunch of Marines that frequent this site, but the Corps needs to fork over MARPAT. It clearly is the best of the 10 patterns currently out there, and there is an existing industrial base for production of the material and gear. The bottom line is that is was developed with tax dollars, and is property of the U.S. taxpayer- not the Marines.
During WW-2 the US Army started the war using a uniform and equipment color called Olive Drab # 3; Known today as Coyote Brown. It worked great in the deserts of North Africa but wasn't worth a crap in Northern Europe, so they changed everything over to OD #7, AKA "dark olive green" Multi-cam is OK if you plan to work in arid country where brown is dominant. But like OD#3 its not worth crap in the green. My other gripe, is the multi-cam fad among "patriot groups" who insist on dressing up to look just like the Feds and SWAT teams. No one cammo can be made to work everywhere, and like it or not you need different patterns for different backgrounds
Hell no. Never. The privilege to wear MARPAT is EARNED at PISC and MCRD. We're the BEST and deserve the BEST cammie pattern.
Let the Army get their own cammie pattern that works. BTW, this is payback for decades of the Army crapping on us like we were bastard children and US Army vet Harry Truman trying to destroy us in 1947!
Sorry Gunny G - you did not 'earn' a camo pattern - you earned the EGA. Period. ALL of our troops deserve the best uniforms and equipment that can be provided to them, regardless of which branch they serve in.
There was nothing whatsoever wrong with M81 Woodland. It works as well as it ever did, and it's recognized world-wide as "that pattern the Americans wear." That's reason enough to take away all four services' "special snowflake" cammies and go back to six-color "chocolate chips" for desert and M81 Woodland for everything else.
For that matter, there was nothing at all wrong with khakis for the desert and olive drab for everything else, other than that so many other militaries issue OD and khaki, or Warsaw Pact surplus that resembles them from more than a few feet away ("pine needle"/"raindrop" pattern camo, the current Russian "digital camouflage pattern" that is indistinguishable from unevenly dyed olive drab from more than ten feet away, etc.) that it would likely result in friendly fire casualties.
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I'm going to piss off a bunch of Marines that frequent this site, but the Corps needs to fork over MARPAT. It clearly is the best of the 10 patterns currently out there, and there is an existing industrial base for production of the material and gear. The bottom line is that is was developed with tax dollars, and is property of the U.S. taxpayer- not the Marines.
-Dan in Kommie Kolorado
Excellent now all my web gear and BDUs are not official pattern...
Wouldn't want to be confused :)
During WW-2 the US Army started the war using a uniform and equipment color called Olive Drab # 3; Known today as Coyote Brown. It worked great in the deserts of North Africa but wasn't worth a crap in Northern Europe, so they changed everything over to OD #7, AKA "dark olive green" Multi-cam is OK if you plan to work in arid country where brown is dominant. But like OD#3 its not worth crap in the green. My other gripe, is the multi-cam fad among "patriot groups" who insist on dressing up to look just like the Feds and SWAT teams. No one cammo can be made to work everywhere, and like it or not you need different patterns for different backgrounds
Believe me. It is never about performance, whether personal or equipment, it's all about politics.
-Dan in Kommie Kolorado,
Hell no. Never. The privilege to wear MARPAT is EARNED at PISC and MCRD. We're the BEST and deserve the BEST cammie pattern.
Let the Army get their own cammie pattern that works. BTW, this is payback for decades of the Army crapping on us like we were bastard children and US Army vet Harry Truman trying to destroy us in 1947!
And oh does it feel good! haha
Sorry Gunny G - you did not 'earn' a camo pattern - you earned the EGA. Period.
ALL of our troops deserve the best uniforms and equipment that can be provided to them, regardless of which branch they serve in.
OTB MCPO sends
There was nothing whatsoever wrong with M81 Woodland. It works as well as it ever did, and it's recognized world-wide as "that pattern the Americans wear." That's reason enough to take away all four services' "special snowflake" cammies and go back to six-color "chocolate chips" for desert and M81 Woodland for everything else.
For that matter, there was nothing at all wrong with khakis for the desert and olive drab for everything else, other than that so many other militaries issue OD and khaki, or Warsaw Pact surplus that resembles them from more than a few feet away ("pine needle"/"raindrop" pattern camo, the current Russian "digital camouflage pattern" that is indistinguishable from unevenly dyed olive drab from more than ten feet away, etc.) that it would likely result in friendly fire casualties.
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