“It’s important to the Army, and the reason it is important to the Army is because it is all about force protection,” [Col. Bob Mortlock, the head of the Army’s Project Manager Soldier Protection and Individual Equipment] said. “In the close fight, soldiers rely on camouflage to provide concealment, and that is critically important to their mission effectiveness.”<\/p>\n
Army units are scheduled to receive an All Army Activities, or ALARACT, message today that lays out the service’s plans to transition from the current Army Combat Uniform in the digital Universal Camouflage Pattern to the updated ACU in the new Operational Camouflage Pattern.<\/p>\n
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When pressed to describe the visual differences between the two patterns, Mortlock would say only that OCP “has been optimized for performance across all the military operating environments that the Army may face. It has also been optimized for night-time operations.”<\/p>\n
As far as the “visual, daytime characteristics, I’m not going to get into at this time,” he said.<\/p>\n
Mortlock did provide some background on the development of OCP, which was formerly known as Scorpion W2.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, good job, Army, you were able to spend billions of dollars and come up with a new collar for the old MultiCams. That’s being frugal. I’m sure something will be wrong with the new design that they’ll discover as it rolls out to the troops and require more research to keep the field grades employed.<\/p>\n
I guess it really doesn’t matter that after ten minutes in the mud and dust, all camouflage patterns look the same – what’s important is that everyone looks like a life-taker in garrison, isn’t it? I’m sure that the Operational Camouflage Pattern looks fabulous in the maternity version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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