Fort Leonard Wood recently released a Sources Sought Notice on FedBizOpps seeking info regarding Crye Precision Field Uniforms in the MultiCam Tropic pattern. They are intended for use by “Instructors” but considering the number of schoolhouses located at Leonard Wood, your guess is as good as mine as to who is the actual user.
Two things make this interesting. First off, the calling out of the Crye Precision field uniform by name and salient characteriatics to avoid being offered a different item. The second is the pattern. The Army’s bookend tests to find suitable Desert and Woodland patterns to complememt OCP (Scorpion W2) have so far only resulted in an inconclusive interim test report. While M81 woodland remains in limited use for SOF personnel as well as at Hawaii’s Jungle School, supplies are limited. MARSOC did purchase M81 Woodland Combat Uniforms manufactured by DriFire but these did not include a Field Shirt. Regardless, someone at Ft Leonard Wood is insisting on the Crye garment in the Crye pattern and that’s interesting.
Two possibilities
1. The U.S. Army Sapper School is located there
2. It could be used as the uniform for any OPFOR engagement.
Isn’t the MP SRT school there as well?
Yes. SRT is there
Why buy fancy (i.e. expensive) unifrorms just for OPFOR engagements?
And the plot thickens. I think this is for the woods bookend testing, considering the location, but why would they put an instructor label on it? Maybe they’ll be the ones wearing the new getup in testing.
In your humble opinion, what’s your take SSD?
Probably for Sapper school so that they can look spiffy…….
Forgot about sapper school. Yeah, that makes sense.
Not fit bookends.
ya cause sadly it would make sense but this is the us army we are talking about !
Seconded, it’s probably Sapper
I don’t think this has anything to do with bookends. I would say it has a lot to do with instructing. The Army isn’t into writing requirements that are not concise and to the point.
Jon, OPT
Perhaps, if the MC Tropic bit works well enough, it could transition into a bookend possibility…
But I agree, this is most likely for the SAPPER cadre, so they can both look spiffy and justify it by being able to most effectively hide from and sneak up on students to ensure they don’t cheat on land nav.
Isnt there a sniper course there?
nope sapper ,mp and i believe chemical corps
Engineer, MP, and Chemical Schoolhouses are all at FLW.
I could just as easily see this being for the MP SRT School Instructors as I could Sapper. Unless I’m mistaken, the SRT School does run a Marksman/Observer course.
Exactly.
Sure as heck isn’t for the Basic Drills, those guys like to stick out
Do they run a Procurement Officer Course there?
1+
Tropic. For blending in with all that cabbage.
WHOEVER is pushing the requirement, WHAT it does is get the nose under the tent.
One day, units operating in temperate climes will be wearing Tropic, units operating in arid climes will be wearing Arid.
Anarchy, I say, ANARCHY.
Some folks already are.
Don’t say anything! I remember there were about 4 years that some units were wearing Multicam downrange while the anti-MC crowd was whining about no “actual units” use it. I always got a silent chuckle out of that.
Jon, OPT
Since we’re on the subject of Tropic possibly being tested/trialed/considered as one of the bookends, how well would it work as a M81 woodland replacement? I’d think that Tropic would be a bit too green for woodlands unless you’re talking about Canadian forests or most worlds encountered when traveling through a stargate.
It very much reminds me of green dominant ERDL.
Everything old is coming back with some hard lessons learned.
And if I seemed ambiguous, I believe that is a good thing.
Have you seen it in person, outside, in a woodland environment? My opinion is the photos on the web to date haven’t done it justice. It is a lot less vibrant than pics would lead you to believe. Just my opinion. Green dom ERDL is a good comparison.
Jon, OPT
I got a Viper headwear cap in tropic right here and its not nearly as vibrant as the above pic… Those samples were probably hot off the press.
Jon speaks the truth, and these pictures do it plenty justice:
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That looks awesome. I’m really looking forward to taking Mandrake and MCTropic out and seeing what they look like mixed.
I was hoping for something more like SLOCAM for the greenside pattern, but at least they call it what it is.
Well, they are opening Cheyenne Mountain back up…
Off-world missions?
I just finished phase one special reaction team at fort Leonard wood a few of the instructors wore the jungle variation multi cam both civilians
Well, there you go.
Haha looks pretty dumb with them wearing the top but with regular multicam bottoms
Actually, it could make sense in some seasons like late summer and early fall, when foliage is still a kind of green, but tall grass is already dry. Not in Spring, for sure…
Nature uses this trick too, look at wolves and moose.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the request is withdrawn shortly.
After everything that’s happened HQ Army has to have learned some lessons.
Sweet! About time the cadre at the 88 Mike course got a distinct uniform. They are, after all, (Motor Vehicle) Operators.
“You Call, We Haul – You Bitch, We Unhitch.”