Custom Gear Report

According to an Army Times Article the Army is going to be testing a ” new” Camouflage they have called UCP Delta. Really “Delta”, REALLY? To call this camo “new” is a bit misleading since it appears by the image provided that all they’ve done is break out Photoshop an slapped Coyote Brown onto the pattern. To beat a cliche to death it’s like slapping lipstick on a pig, a big fat it’s 2 AM and I’m drunk in the bar so what the hell, pig.

It also appears they will be issuing Crye’s Multicam to a unit as part of the test as well which I am sure has all the MC fan boys happy.

On the up side the Army may be able to use Coyote Brown a a companion color for gear, which is already issued to the USMC and in the system. Multicam also has a large COTS base to draw from.

As a former soldier the UCP pattern pisses me off because it is utter garbage, as a taxpayer it pisses me off because now we are spending money to fix a problem that should have never come to be.

This camo fiasco is ridiculous. We now have the USMC with MARPAT (Woodland and Desert), The Air Force with Digital Tiger Stripe, Navy with their new pattern plus the companion patterns for when they are working with the Marine Corps. SOCOM with AOR 1 and 2 all the rivalry that goes with that mess not to mention the other off the shelf patterns they use. Then there is the Army with the abomination they adopted and are now trying to figure out how to fix.

Hey Branches how about this, get together, come up with a pattern, quit playing “we need to be different” and get this shit over with. Oh, and stop spending my tax money reinventing the wheel.