New Uniform Pattern

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

Only the OD green with our existing nametapes would be reminiscent of the "pickle suit."

It would be in a standard BDU cut.

[SilentPhantom]

lol if we wear those NHQ'll start sending us off to do SAREXs in Vietnam

Been to Viet Nam.  Nice place.  Just do not wonder too far off the trail

lol, yeah, there're probably still pits with pungi sticks in the bottoms all over the place...

[Майор Хаткевич]

http://captalk.net/index.php?topic=3896.0

[Storm Chaser]

Only the OD green with our existing nametapes would be reminiscent of the "pickle suit."

It would be in a standard BDU cut.

If we were to replace the BDU with a non-Air Force field uniform, why would we pick a green one when we already have a blue one that doesn't require additional approval? With the right color patches (meaning navy blue instead of ultramarine), this is not a bad looking uniform. Furthermore, not only is it an approved uniform, but many of our members already own a set. It seems like a no brainer to me.

[Garibaldi]

I think CAP should just stick with the BDUs, the only problem with that is BDUs are dissapearing. ACUs have an awful pattern and with look terrible with our ultramarine nametapes and insignia. I do like the new Multicam though...

My choice would be plain green BDU's, readily available online.  It would give the flavour of the "pickle suit," a nod to our history.

(shudder)



I hated those pickle suits when I was a cadet...

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Yeah, we'd look awfull in those 'pinkle suits'  lol

OOO! OOO! OG jungle fatigues!

lol if we wear those NHQ'll start sending us off to do SAREXs in Vietnam

Well, MH370 is still missing...

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

If we were to replace the BDU with a non-Air Force field uniform, why would we pick a green one when we already have a blue one that doesn't require additional approval? With the right color patches (meaning navy blue instead of ultramarine), this is not a bad looking uniform. Furthermore, not only is it an approved uniform, but many of our members already own a set. It seems like a no brainer to me.

You are correct, of course, and I say that as someone who owns, wears and likes the BBDU...but it would look worlds better with the darker-blue insignia.

[NorCal21]

http://www.hyperstealth.com/scorpion/

Better pictures.

Funny. Looks very similar to a lot of uniforms worn by different countries in WWII. 70 years later and millions of dollars to come up with something the Italians and Germans were wearing in the 1940's.

[Luis R. Ramos]

Not the only thing that looks like "what Germans were using" 70 years ago.

The helmet worn now by US soldiers, for instance.

[PHall]

Not the only thing that looks like "what Germans were using" 70 years ago.

The helmet worn now by US soldiers, for instance.

The Germans came up with a lot of stuff that is still being used today because of the soundness of the design.

The MG42 machine gun is the direct forebearer of the American M-60 machine gun. And the M-60 has been in service since the early 60's.

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

The Germans came up with a lot of stuff that is still being used today because of the soundness of the design.

Both the F-86 Sabrejet and the MiG-15 had direct lineage to the swept-wing studies that Luftwaffe scientists did, which were operational on the Me-262.

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=509

The 262 may have altered the course of the war if not for Hitler's insistence that it be used as a bomber.

And the German Bundesheer of today wear near-identical Flecktarn camouflage to that worn by the Waffen-SS.


Bundesheer Flecktarn


SS Panzer Jacket

[a2capt]

Looks like moldy cheese.

[PHall]

Yeah, that pattern would work great in either the Fulda Gap or the forests of Southern Germany.
Probably wouldn't work so well in Iraq or Afghanistan.

[Eclipse]

Probably wouldn't work so well in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Northern Iraq:


East Kunar province, Afganistan: