Never was in the Army, but we used those little bungee cord things. Never tried just tucking them in. How well does that hold up when you're active? At home we were always in the field. Seems like they would just come untucked crawling around stuff.
Actually (prior to the Army's current rip-off of Crye) the Marines Digi-Cam was the ONLY pattern to have successfully completed the entire DoD testing procedure that proved it worked and it has served VERY well since we phased out the Woodland pattern. A fact that may have helped lead to the Army's decision as Congress was looking at making ALL the Services convert to the Marines trademarked pattern.So you're excited about a cammo pattern that has been issued since 2010? the Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP, which it wasn't) was selected over Multicam in 2004, so another way of looking at this is that the Army is finally realizing its mistake eleven years later...
By the way, don't let anyone fool you, "Scorpion W2" is Multicam; the latter is simply the brand name of a commercially available pattern. It is a modified version that the Army developed with Crye (owners of Multicam) back in 2004. The only difference is that the Army refused to pay Crye royalties for its use. I suspect there will be a huge lawsuit over this once the Army fields the new uniform.
But, for now, it's time for the Air Force, Marines and Navy to adopt this one uniform instead of wasting ridiculous amounts of money on the useless designs they've come up with!
Dungarees in the Navy back in the day. They now have this blue camo that's nicknamed aquaflage. If you are a surface sailor and fall overboard, there's no way in hell they will be able to see you in the water.
Never had an issue tucking BDU, DCU and now ACU pants into the top of my boots and most of my career has been Infantry and Airborne Infantry.Pants never come untucked.
Can't believe I never tried that. Or anyone else I knew for that matter. Guess that's why we were overrun in all those hand me down bungee cord things.
But on the other hand, I should probably make a comment about how it figures the Army would look for a shortcut and try and take the easy way out on stuff.
But on the other hand, I should probably make a comment about how it figures the Army would remove unnecessary equipment and make a more efficient fighting force.
I know your time was before mine and might not have been a big deal then but you would get your ass chewed out now if you tucked your trousers into your boots instead of using a boot band.
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I do believe that's the nicest way anyone has called me old.
Oddly enough, it almost appears that the old UCP pattern provides better camouflage, at least in Texas!
Uniform field testing at Fort Bliss Training Center on Sept. 21, 2012
Source: http://tacticalgear.com/ocp-acus
in 1986 we had plain green fatigues. Us MP's had to blouse our boots with those dumb little mini bungee cords, anyone remember those?