MILSIM- OP: Fight For The Cure 9/23/12

[thedeisel]

We will also be posting a record online of who came, the money from the entrance fee to play, and the money going to ACS. I hope to get a picture of the money being handed to ACS' local representative Carrie Franchi.


Also, Roster has been updated.

[Phillz]

I have 1 more coming to this event, also can you switch me to the marpat team?

[squirel master]

I would only be able to go if I get a ride I belive its pretty far from niles but I have delt with canser to often to not want to I would also need to borrow a gun since my m4 bit the dust last night. I would be Irianim

[ATS]

I will provide the option for rental AEGs. If you want one - PM me in advance and I will log it, so we have enough!

[Kreeper]

I am looking to bring 10-15 guys from Kettering Airsoft. However, we run into the issue that it is outside our deadline for reimbursement. If I pm'ed/emailed a receipt to you guys for how many we sign up with(a week or two beforehand), could I get it signed and digitally sent back so we can get reimbursed by Kettering?

[Crux]

I would like to go and possibly bring one other person with me. We would both be wearing multicam.

[xzombiekillerx]

If your going for realism the 75th ranger regiment is mostly running army acu. So wouldn't it be army acu and Marat for the marine core against whatever the Iran uses for camo.

[Impulse]

Sure, if you want the teams completely unbalanced, as the four most popular camouflages in airsoft 'round here seem to be MARPAT woodland, OCP, ACU, and M81 woodland. As it is all of those are in use for this mission, and assigned to countries that do use them (or copies, as iran's case would be), there should be a reasonable chance of the teams being balanced while not forcing one team to wear desert.

If ACU was on the US side, would you expect to put multicam on Iran? That seems a little more far-fetched.

[Crux]

Ok, it now looks like the other guy actually cannot make it so it'll only probably be me (still wearing multicam).

[xzombiekillerx]

Yea but if you look at the roster there's like 12 people on the us side and like 5 on the Iran. I'd even the teams out and at the 28 mile road field I've seen my team and two other people wearing acu.

[bloodredsky]

I should be able to make it, I generally run Multicam, but can go woodland if needed to balance teams.

[Crapshoot]

Zombiekiller, recent pictures (2011-now) have shown the 75th Rangers running Multicam almost exclusively.

[brig]

The 75th Ranger Regiment uses ACU, OCP, and other army camouflage. Some of the 75th Ranger Regiment's battalions are currently deployed to the Middle East (desert and desert dry forest environments), and being that they are U.S. Army Infantry they use the camo patterns that are appropriate for said environment. ACU and OCP were made to REPLACE the ageing old M81 woodland as the STANDARD camo pattern, OCP was first to be made and viewed but ACU was chosen because spectators decided that OCP did not blend in with European Forest environments. ACU was chosen because it was not originally designed to blend with surrounding environments, but was designed to break up the silhouette of the soldier, making it difficult for quick targeting. Since it was not designed for blending but designed for visual distortion, it could be used for all European environments which army spectators love. It was also picked because the design was simple, cheap and easy to manufacture at the time which are extremely big factors when manurfactoring uniforms to clothe almost 2 million men and women as well as new recruits.

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OCP

{MultiCam is a single camouflage pattern designed to help the wearer hide in varied environments, seasons, elevations, and light conditions. It is a 7-color, multi-environment camouflage pattern developed by Crye Precision in conjunction with U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center (also known as U.S Army Natick labs).
The pattern was included in the race to replace the 3-Color Desert and Woodland patterns, but in 2004 lost to the Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP) that can be seen in the current Army Combat Uniform. However, it has been newly commissioned in 2010 and will be replacing the UCP over time for use by U.S. Army Units serving in Afghanistan, under the Designation OCP or Operation Enduring Freedom Camouflage Pattern. It is already used by some American Special Operations units and law enforcement agencies.In 2010 the United States Army approved the use of MultiCam for its soldiers being deployed to Afghanistan.

Soldiers deployed to Afghanistan (starting with the 173rd Airborne Brigade) are issued a version of the "MultiCam" pattern. Since late 2010, all U.S. Army soldiers deploying in support of Operating Enduring Freedom are issued flame-resistant ACUs in the Operation Enduring Freedom Camouflage Pattern (OCP). These uniforms are designed to prevent third-degree burns, along with up to thirty percent of second degree burns. Additionally, the uniforms are treated with the chemical permethrin to help protect soldiers from insect-borne diseases like malaria. Some U.S. Army soldiers during the latter stages of the Iraq War also wore the ACU in OCP; some were seen wearing them as late as December 2011, when the United States withdrew its military forces from the country at the end of the war.

ACU

The Army Combat Uniform (ACU) is the current combat uniform worn by the United States Army. It is the successor to the Battle Dress Uniform (BDU) and Desert Camouflage Uniform (DCU) worn from the 1980s through the early 2000s. It features a number of design changes, as well as a different camouflage pattern from its predecessor. The ACU and its component materials are manufactured by the existing industrial infrastructure which produced the now-obsolete BDU. Official military-grade ACUs are made of 50% nylon and 50% cotton. All other blends are not official issue.

The U.S. Army uses the Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP), which blends tan, gray and green (Desert Sand 500, Urban Gray 501 and Foliage Green 502) to work equally in desert, woodland, and urban environments. Similar to the United States Marine Corps MARPAT and Canadian CADPAT camouflage schemes that preceded it, the pattern design is based on research into Dual Texture (Dual-Tex) Camouflage conducted in the 1970s. This design, however, is not as effective as patterns with color schemes specific to a single environment and may have been implemented due to budgetary constraints. The color scheme of the Army Combat Uniform is composed of a slate gray, desert sand and foliage green pixel pattern, which becomes darker or lighter depending on exposure to sunlight.[citation needed] The shade black was omitted from the uniform since it does not exist in nature. Pure black, when viewed through night vision devices, appears excessively dark and creates an undesirable high-contrast image.

[steelfallenangel]

Alright I have perma switched my availability so that I can have sundays off to go to these games. So I am a "for sure". And as for my plus 1. I told him about the camo team system and he wasn't too happy about the way that happened so he may be buying a multicam bdu. However since he's often slow to act don't switch him off PMC yet.

[Carnage]

I'm hearing talk about this switching to Saturday the 22nd now.