This Natick photo, circa 1994 features an experimental urban camouflage pattern. There were versions of the reversible BDU made with this pattern combined with Woodland.
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Yes, and then featured a year later by the bad guys in the movie “The Rock” with Nick Cage, Sean Connery, Ed Harris.
I thought they just wore that grey/black/white BDU pattern found in all surplus stores. Neat.
Affirmative.
There were a bunch of patterns.
still better than ucp….
idk, same colors so they’re probably comparable.
Should’ve had more grey areas w/smaller tan/beige/coyote so it blends in better w/the cityscape and/or crumbled bldgs. Next stop, reversible gear aka OCIE.
Didn’t the Marines do a urban exercise in the 90s in the bay area with a Specialized urban camo scheme?
Yes, the used several patterns but the Urban T is probably the one you are thinking of.
Still remember driving across the bridge (DOTCOM I era, everyone who saw the end coming was in the office on Saturday) and watching a trio of ’46s fly into the urban canyon of the SF Financial District. Every once and again you’d hear rotor pop or turbine whine.
The only signs of the exercise on the surface streets were convoys of G-plated Dodge Caravans carrying observers and dignitaries….
Reminds me of the 80s – 90s Brit urban block camo experiments
Any link with information?
I remeber this, but like a lot of Natick stuff, a quick article and photos, then off to oblivion…
That dude’s expression says everything you need to know about that experimental camo.
Throw back, u FKS that’s still my hair style. Stay frosty warriors.
Who remembers circa 1998-99 USMC Tetris-pat?
I thought it looked cool
That’s T-pattern
I’d like an honest opinion from people that have served and especially overseas. Does camo really work?
I had BDUs and they stuck out like a sore thumb in Germany when I served in the US Army, especially anything with a lot of black on it. From my experiences the best way to camouflage yourself is to attach some vegetation to break up your pattern and rub some dirt on your uniform to blend in. As long as the uniform was some sort of green or brown it worked.
In my opinion the problem with camo is that in certain places it works and take a few steps over and it doesn’t. Breaking up your pattern and not having un-natural type colors like a pure black works better. I think you could wear red pajamas as long as you blend in like that.
Look at nature and the colors and patterns it uses. Although Multicam looks good and tests well. So any opinions on it all from people that use it everyday for their livelihood?
I was also in Germany during the Cold War and it was HORRIBLE camo for lunch at the schnell imbiss–CSM caught us drinking at lunch every time. “Off-road,” Woodland Camo is to this day a great pattern, with its roots in the need for a pattern appropriate for a Warsaw Pact breach of the Fulda Gap.
Urban? Not so much. But here’s the thing: The moment IDF (or .50 cal) punches holes in the urban (or rural) veneer and coats everything in the residue of the underlying material, the fabric will will pick up that residue and viola, you’re blending. That’s the thinking behind the Marines and their disinterest in camouflaged individual equipment. If you look at photos from ops in Fallujah or Ramadi (military Combat Camera, not MSM who photographed everyone going in clean on day 1, then fled) you’ll see that even Marines in WC pattern Interceptor covers picked up enough dust to interrupt their silhouette–which ultimately is what camo is intended to do.
Camo is but one factor in battlefield success. In no particular order, terrain, concealment, ambient lighting, cover, and movement is far more important.
Multicam/OCP is the 4th–and most broadly suitable–camouflage pattern I’ve worn. I can retire knowing we regrouped after the disastrous mistake that was UCP.
Amazing that they”developed” a camo that looks like a bdu turned inside out.