Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Do The Camouflage Patterns Of The U.S. Military Put Our Soldiers At Risk

The Irresponsibly Stupid And Dangerous Camouflage Patterns Of The U.S. Military -- D.B. Grady, The Week

You'd think the military would want uniform patterns that keep its members safe. And yet somehow, "distinctiveness" has trumped safety

When the Marine Corps selected a digital pattern for its combat uniform in 2002, the U.S. military as a whole seemed to fracture, with each branch wandering aimlessly in a bizarre search for sartorial identity. It's been a long, strange trip since. So let's take a brief look at the camouflage patterns of the U.S. military, and the sorry stories of their adoptions.

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My Comment: It could be worse .... our soldiers could be dressed like this.

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