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Patchwork of Camouflage

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

ABC News Chief Political Correspondent George Stephanapoulos wrote the coalition enforcing the no-fly zone over Libya looked like a “Patchwork of Camouflage” after seeing this photo yesterday of a Task Force ODYSSEY DAWN planning meeting aboard flagship USS Mount Whitney.

I get his sentiment but looking at the photo, I only see a few patterns. You want to see a real mishmash of uniforms check out a planning meeting during the height of OIF or heck even a current one in Afghanistan. The room will look like a military surplus catalog exploded.

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Will It Happen?

Friday, March 18th, 2011

The Army is supposed to release the Solicitation today for the Camouflage Improvement Effort. Lots of folks have been leaning forward in their foxholes getting ready for it and we can’t wait to see what comes out of this. Hopefully, you will be seeing a post from us later today announcing the beginning of DoD’s most ambitious camo effort yet.

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Tucson Padres Sporting Camo Uniforms

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Minor League Baseball team Tucson Padres will be sporting 3-color Desert camo uniforms this season for Sunday games as well as military holiday games.

From their press release:

Military Uniform: In partnership with the San Diego Padres, the Tucson Padres are wearing camouflage military jerseys for Sunday home games and other appropriate military holidays throughout the 2011 season. As a gesture of support for the Tucson military community, the San Diego Padres are giving these game worn jerseys from 2010 to the Tucson Padres for the 2011 season.

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Safariland Introduces A-TACS to Their PROTECH Tactical Line

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

Safariland, a BAE Systems line of business, has announced a partnership with Digital Concealment Systems, LLC to exclusively offer the A-TACS® (Advanced Tactical Concealment System) camouflage pattern within the body armor category.

“We are excited to add the A-TACS line of camouflage offerings to our PROTECH brand,” said Dan McNeil, Category Director for Armor Tactical products. “Our partnership with A-TACS is another step in the right direction of providing products that meet and exceed the requirements of law enforcement officers and agencies serving our communities every day.”

A-TACS will be available as a color option for all of PROTECH’s tactical carriers and soft tactical armor accessories such as yokes, throats, collars, biceps, groin protectors and pouches.

For more information on PROTECH’s offerings visit www.safariland.com/bodyarmor.

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Criticism of SSD’s Coverage of the Army Family of Camouflage Patterns Effort

Monday, March 14th, 2011

We received a letter last week from a reader criticizing our coverage of the Army’s Family of Patterns effort. First off, it is important that you know that the author is involved commercially in the development of camouflage patterns. It is also important that SSD readers realize that we are in no way affiliated with the US Government and do not represent the views of the military but rather function as a news outlet serving the tactical industry. While we appreciate the time it obviously took to craft this letter, it seems as if the writer is expecting SSD to explain Army decisions. Since we are in no way involved in the acquisition process this is impossible. However, we will do our best to address the concerns of this writer from our perspective, based on our attendance at Industry Day and our interaction with Government and industry over the past few years. Hopefully, this article will help to expand your understanding of the upcoming Family of Patterns solicitation to be released later this week. Due to the length of the letter please read the rest of the story. (more…)

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Predator BDU Shipping A-TACS Pre-orders

Monday, March 14th, 2011

According to Tactical Fanboy Predator BDU is already shipping their A-TACS ACUs from Propper! That’s right, ahead of schedule. How often can you say that? This also means that they have them in stock.

www.predatorbdu.com

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Camo Boffins Get Ready!

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Just in case the previous presolicitation message that was released via FedBizOpps on 28 Feb wasn’t enough, the Army issued ANOTHER presolicitation yesterday for the “U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Effort” (Solicitation Number: W911QY-11-R-0008). According to the notice, the actual solicitation will drop on 18 March, 2011 so nothing has changed there or anywhere else for that matter. Naturally, it’s a Friday which invariably means no weekend for those working at firms who will be competing. It seems there is an unwritten rule that all deployment orders and major solicitations are issued on Friday afternoon. To those involved; gird your loins. It seems that someone is excited enough about this to issue two presolicitations in as many weeks.

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Battlefield Airmen on the Job

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

We like seeing official Air Force photos of Battlefield Airmen applying airmanship to the tasks at hand. In this case we see U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Stacy Maxey, a command air mobility liaison officer with Task Force CROM, giving a landing zone safety officer course U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, and Romanian army personnel at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Lagman, Afghanistan.

You will note the combination of AF Digital Tigerstripe, Army UCP and Army OCP (MultiCam) clothing and equipment on the Airmen in the photo. Expect this to be the norm for at least the near future as deploying Airmen transition to OCP.

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