Custom Gear Report

So sticking to our guns we’re just going to give you a quick round up of articles that are discussing the UCP Delta issue.

Defense Tech This article has a copy of an early test report pitting UCP up against Multicam and several other patterns

Soldier Systems and Another

Military.com This article was written by the same guys who runs ” Defense Tech” which is also a sub blog of Military.com)

Strike Hold

Their are problably other out there as well but we seem to be going in circles now

It appears the usual gear blog suspects are chiming in on the UCP Delta camo fiasco that we vented about yesterday.

Soldier Systems

Gear Scout

The Camo Side of Dominic Hyde

Defense Tech

I’m not going to get involved in the whole rat race on who has the latest scoop on this particular topic. My post yesterday was just to rant about the stupidity of the whole camo thing.

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.