Who liked the old US military woodland camo?

[Ridgerunner]

For the life of I can’t understand why sailors wear camouflage on shipboard.

Most, not all but most sailors do as they are told...

 

[Ringel05]

My two favorites have always been Flectarn and Tiger Stripe.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

The woodland camo blends in nicely with the Eastern European countryside.

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I know thats YOU in the center "haystack"!!!!

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

Doesn't matter what color they paint them, you can still tell it's a VEHICLE!!!

"Hey Sarge, that bush over there has mag wheels and white letter tires"!!!

 

[Sunni Man]

When I was in the US army.
Vietnam Tiger Stripe camo was the cat's meow.
Still my favorite pattern today. ...

 

[MisterBeale]

 

[DudleySmith]

NATO Three-Color Camouflage for Military Vehicles

As the US Army began the transition to CARC paint, it also began the changeover to the NATO 3-color camouflage. This new paint scheme was to be used by all the NATO ground forces.

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"As the US Army began the transition to CARC paint, it also began the changeover to the NATO 3-color camouflage. This new paint scheme was to be used by all the NATO ground forces and consisted of a base green (Federal Standard--'FS'--# 34094) a brown (FS# 30051) and black disruptive bands (FS# 37030). Army Regulation ('AR') 750-1 states that any tactical vehicle with more than nine square feet of area on any side will be painted in the three-color pattern. If no approved pattern was available the base green was to be applied until an officially approved pattern became available.

APPLICATION of CARC​

The adoption of CARC ended the days when units and crews were responsible for applying the camouflage pattern to their vehicles upon issue. Vehicles that had 3 color patterns approved for them rolled off the assembly lines with camouflage paint already applied.

Prior to the 1991 Gulf War, most everything came off the assembly line painted in the NATO colors, During Desert Shield and Desert Storm production was rapidly switched over to tan.

After the war, the intended mission determined how a vehicle was painted, purchase contracts spelled out what percentage of production or what vehicle variants would be painted tan and what would be painted in the 3-color pattern. TM 43-0139 gave four methods for applying the camouflage pattern to a piece of equipment; they were listed in order of preference and accuracy."

"CARC" Chemical Agent Resistant Coating: US Cold-War Camouflage

Chemical Agent Resistant Coating or CARC is, in simple terms, a low gloss military version of the polyurethane paints that were developed for use in commercial industry. CARC has a low porosity that prevents chemical warfare agents from "soaking in" to the finish and makes decontamination easy...

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I counted many regulations, and as the author notes, even the Army can't keep up with them all and standardize at unit level; I see a mix on most bases.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

Adapting to your surroundings...............THATS how you do it.

 

[MisterBeale]