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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe USAToday<\/a> reports that Congress is criticizing the Pentagon for buying a woodland pattern uniform for our Afghan allies;<\/p>\n The Pentagon wasted as much as $28 million over the past decade buying uniforms for the Afghan army with a woodland camouflage pattern appropriate for a tiny fraction of that war-torn country, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.<\/p>\n The Afghan Defense Minister picked the pricey, privately owned \u201cforest\u201d color pattern over free camouflage schemes owned by the U.S. government, according to an advance copy of the report due out on Wednesday. The scathing, 17-page study notes that \u201cforests cover only 2.1% of Afghanistan\u2019s total land area.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Daily Caller<\/a> quotes camouflage expert, Senator Claire McCaskill;<\/p>\n Members of Congress from both parties want the Pentagon to answer for purchasing camouflage for Afghan forces that is the wrong pattern for the region.<\/p>\n Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill voiced her frustration over the potential waste of $28 million in a letter to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), USA Today reports.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a contracting decision that makes you smack your head in frustration,\u201d McCaskill said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s a prime example of wasting hard-earned taxpayer dollars, and we\u2019ve got to get to the bottom of how this happened.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Personally, I’m sick and tired of all of this talk about an “effective” camouflage pattern. When I invaded Iraq in 1991, I was wearing woodland pattern BDUs because we only had one set of desert pattern uniforms and mine was dirty – it really didn’t matter what color, or pattern, uniform I had anyway. Within ten seconds of putting my uniform on and rolling around in the terrain, my uniform matched my surroundings.<\/p>\n I don’t give a tiny rat’s ass what those pointy-headed people at Natick say, a camouflage pattern is no more than a fashion statement – it doesn’t protect anyone, it doesn’t make you magically invisible, it’s covered with dirt and mud as soon as you take cover, so it doesn’t really matter. Anyone who says otherwise has never spent a moment as a real soldier.<\/p>\n