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Post by Thor on Sept 15, 2009 21:08:23 GMT -5
That looks ugly as shit. I am not a fan, sir.
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Post by Knife on Sept 15, 2009 21:09:34 GMT -5
Looks like a two battalions will each get different camo's, on being UCP-Delta, the other Multicam.
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Post by Thor on Sept 15, 2009 22:33:12 GMT -5
Well, unless they let a blind retarded monkey pick the winner, I think it's safe to say that Multicam will become widely issued for the military.
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Post by vikingmedic on Sept 16, 2009 2:09:59 GMT -5
Hey! Don't make fun of that monkey, he has a VERY long tradition of making the governments decisions regarding the spending of our tax dollars.
ACU's only viable use in Airsoft as I've seen so far is to draw the enemy's fire away from the rest of the squad wearing more sensible camouflage patterns.
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Post by Knife on Sept 18, 2009 17:11:40 GMT -5
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Post by Gestapo on Sept 21, 2009 12:58:30 GMT -5
Or you could just cut to the chase and use multicam. This made me laugh.
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Post by soviettaco on Sept 21, 2009 13:19:10 GMT -5
I believe heavily in casual Fridays ;D Maybe the army can adopt that, whose going to mess with 20 Hawaiian shirts sweeping a street? haha.
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Post by Great Troub of Troubistan on Sept 21, 2009 17:35:58 GMT -5
I am still trying to figure out why we just didn't go the obvious route of keeping a universal military camouflage, especially when the Marines came up with one of the most effective camouflage patterns to date. Yeah, thats right Multicam kids, MARPAT is much better in its intended environment than your MultiCam.
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Post by Knife on Sept 21, 2009 17:58:43 GMT -5
Well isn't that obvious, I'm not sure anyone ever said that Multicam worked better than MARPAT? Design MARPAT is designed for a single environment, thus should excel at working Woodland. Take MARPAT into Urban or Desert and MARPAT is worse. I'm sure there will be a camo that works out better than Multicam, but currently it seems to be the best Multi-environment choice. Afghan is a fairly diverse area, from Urban, to Desert, to Woodlandish to Mountainy areas. Multicam beats out UCP in all of those.
I doubt we'd see MARPAT as an Army camo because of the branding and politics of it. I can see something like ACU becoming a garrison camo and then a camo issued to the region they are preparing to find in though.
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Post by Great Troub of Troubistan on Sept 21, 2009 20:23:53 GMT -5
Meh, I just don't see the point in trying to have an average camouflage that does it all. I'd rather have a camouflage for desert and woodland that does each job fantastic.
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Post by Zorak on Sept 21, 2009 20:36:19 GMT -5
Murphy's Law dictates that some poor regiment is going to get pulled from duty in the desert and sent to invade Honduras without having time to re-equip. (See all those Marines with woodland MOP suits in Generation Kill.) If we issue Multicam or other universal pattern, those guys will be OK, though not optimal, wherever they go. If we issue MARPAT, those guys will have useless camo. So, does the benefit of having superior camo 80% of the time outweigh the penalty of having crap cap 20% of the time?
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Post by lonewolf on Oct 9, 2009 22:32:14 GMT -5
Multicam vest over tri desert. That is all.
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Post by Dahm on Oct 9, 2009 23:57:34 GMT -5
Hey! Don't make fun of that monkey, he has a VERY long tradition of making the governments decisions regarding the spending of our tax dollars. I I have nothing else to say'd. But really, Multicam it is, so lets move on! *Cough Tri-Color Desert is the best camo ever made with 6-color-choco-chip coming in a close second Cough*Hack*Wheeze* ... subtle.
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