My thoughts about U.S camouflage development
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Recently, uniform camouflage designs in all branches have been shifting towards strictly woodland patterns instead of the currently outlying unique patterns- with the Air Force absorbing the Army’s OCP, the Navy phasing out “Blueberries” with woodland updates, and the marines phasing out the desert MARPAT variant. All of these changes seem to all have a similar justification in favor that green woodlands are more common/standard, and that patterns standardized in other themes don’t blend in. This does make some sense, but I think the same reason of environmental meshing could be put in the opposite direction.
Yes, woodlands don’t fit with other patterns, but there are still other environments (ex. Desert, Urban) that would not be suitable for woodland patterns (with maybe the acceptance of OCP, it does actually look fine in some other environments in my opinion). Better ideas would be to 1. Develop an excellent universal pattern that could be suitable for multiple environments 2. Assigning different patterns based on the environment of the area (This could create a funding problem, though)
Even though I come from a lame-end’s perspective in this case, I still don’t understand why anybody is logically questioning (not including traditionalists who want the distinction between branches to remain) fixing a single pattern in standard-issue to all environments.
(This is only a mere opinion, and I’d like to see a good argument or reasoning against me- whether if it’s the sensible facts that I don’t know or an opposing opinion)
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