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The uniforms with the Army's new operational camouflage pattern — and nine design changes — are on track to start appearing in "exchanges" (stores) July 1.
The Army is replacing its Universal Camouflage Pattern with Scorpion, a pattern similar to MultiCam developed around 2002.,The Army is quietly putting the word out to commands that it is replacing ...
The Army is confusingly repurposing the OCP acronym, which originally stood for Operation Enduring Freedom camouflage pattern — the term for the commercial Multicam pattern produced by Brooklyn ...
The U.S. Army’s new camouflage pattern uniforms hit stores Wednesday. The Operational Camouflage Pattern uniform is available in select military clothing stores. In a statement released last ...
The Army was poised to announce the results of its multi-year camouflage improvement effort nearly a year ago, but congressional language in the 2014 defense budget called on the Pentagon to put ...
Combat uniforms featuring the Army's newest camouflage pattern will be available for sale in the summer of 2015, officials announced Thursday. The Army is calling its new camo the Operational ...
The U.S. Army is quietly putting the word out to commands that it is replacing its current Universal Camouflage Pattern with a pattern the service has owned for more than a decade.
It's the first combat helmet that provides protection from small arms without added accessories. (Army) The service expects to field 190,000 next generation IHPS by 2028, Elgort said.
The Army adopted the Advanced Combat Helmet in 2003, which cut the weight of an extra large helmet down to 3.88 pounds. The new ACH II helmet cuts the weight even further, with an extra large ...
FORT BELVOIR, Va. (Army News Service, March 31, 2014) -- Young Soldiers often want to wear a uniform that looks cool, while lawmakers want cost effectiveness, but the Army's priority is protecting ...
The entire Army will be in the Operational Camouflage Pattern by Oct. 1, 2019. New Soldiers will receive ACUs with the pattern beginning in January 2016.
An extra-large legacy helmet weighs 3.88 pounds, he said, but an extra-large Gen II helmet weighs 2.94 pounds, which equals a 24 percent reduction in weight. The small and medium helmets see a 21 ...