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The Navy's camo looks bizarre (it doesn't blend with trees, ships, or office equipment), but turns out it's main purpose is to hide the stains that a sailor pic
by chiph 12y ago
The Navy's camo looks bizarre (it doesn't blend with trees, ships, or office equipment), but turns out it's main purpose is to hide the stains that a sailor picks up during their duty day, from oil & grease to paint drips. So as a duty uniform, it succeeds.
The Air Force camo was introduced as a pure ego move. It doesn't blend, oil & hydraulic stains can't be wiped off the boots, and it's too hot. And unlike the green polyester duty uniforms of the 70's & 80's you can't shorten or roll-up the sleeves.
My understand why they don't all buy the multi-cam is that the design is copyrighted and the DoD and the owner couldn't come to an agreement on the licensing fees.
- badlucklottery 12y agoAccording to Caleb Crye the DoD reps just didn't want to come to an agreement: http://soldiersystems.net/2014/03/18/ssd-exclusive-crye-precision-speaks-regarding-us-army-efforts-adopt-new-camouflage/ http://soldiersystems.net/2014/03/18/ssd-exclusive-crye-prec... tl;dr: > Continuing its efforts to reduce costs to the Army and in an attempt to eliminate the Army’s concerns that MultiCam® was more expensive than UCP, Crye submitted several formal proposals which proved that the Army could procure MultiCam® gear at prices within 1% of UCP gear. Crye’s proposals additionally showed that this could be accomplished with no upfront cost to the Army. > The Army rejected all of Crye’s proposals and did not present any counter proposals, effectively saying that a proven increase in Soldier survivability was not worth a price difference of less than 1%.