The Army is ready to buy different camouflage for its fatigues and equipment, just eight years after troops in Afghanistan were outfitted with new uniform.
The move to a different uniform comes after soldiers, many of them redeploying to Afghanistan, began voicing their criticism in the summer of 2009 of the "universal" camouflage pattern, introduced in 2004 and meant to be used in all types of battle environments.
The problem: the one-size-fits-all approach of the universal pattern wasn't working.
CNN's Chris Lawrence spoke to one camo designer, whose three patterns are in running to outfit U.S. soldiers. But the developer has his eyes set even further down the road, to technology that can make U.S. troops invisible on the battlefield.
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Not quite as cowardly as hiding behind women, but it'll do.
You suppose we could use this technology to hide all those southern republicans' trailer houses? Hahahahahahaahah
Actually the reality is way more highschool drop out, barely literate, ghetto, alcoholic, low IQ, welfare loving, america hating, drug using, sub human baby factory hispanics and blacks voted for Obama than obese mcdonalds eating, trailer park living sister loving, white tr@sh voted for Romney.
The cleaners called. Your brown shirts are ready.
Soldiers were critizing the UCP pattern in the ACUs long before 2009. Soldiers started critizing that horrible "camouflage" as soon as it was introduced.
Tim, I'm willing to bet that they didn't interview Crye because Crye is not in the running.
Why didn't you interview Crye Precision, the makers of currently the most effective universal camoflage: multicam. They have consistently understood what patterns, colors and designs work most efficiently in the field. And no, I am not on their payroll and this is not a plug.