Trial Navy working Uniform patterns

I have been jonesing for some of the NWU blue digital uniforms for a while now..and I finally saw my chance to grab some for a good price on E-Bay, when I started looking around I found pieces of all 4 patterns tested during the "Task Force Uniform" trials in Winter of 2004/05. I now have every cam pattern issued by the US in the last 25 years

Type A- Blue Dominant






Type B- Gray Dominant






All of the TFU pants had 1 button closure with elastic on the cargo pockets, an Elastic waistband (The Same as the MCCUU) and a zipper fly






Type C- Blue Dominant










Type D- Gray Dominant







All of the Shirts have the classic BDU 4-Pocket configuration








Here are some pics of the testing during the winter of 2004/05

[url="http://www.npc.navy.mil/NR/rdonlyres/CC1EFAB9-DAC8-41CE-8EC8-D5F6816FD31C/0/NWUUserGuide.pdf"]NWU Task force Uniform Guide PDF[/url]

Looks good a step for the Navy I must say.
Now I got to be on the look out for a couple diffrent patterns.

I now have every cam pattern issued by the US in the last 25 years

Really?

Philip wrote:

I now have every cam pattern issued by the US in the last 25 years

Really?

From the NWU to 6 color desert, and everything in between...now to move into more of the experimental patterns issued by the US, I already have Snow MARPAT and the test patterns for the NWU....my next goal is the USMC T-Pattern, by golly is that stuff hard to find

now which one did they officially adopt? I have NWU-A and that seems to be the one that is most abundant so I would assume that. Also anyone know where I can get NWU B-D?

Flecktarn92 wrote:now which one did they officially adopt? I have NWU-A and that seems to be the one that is most abundant so I would assume that. Also anyone know where I can get NWU B-D?

They adopted NWU-A the blue dominant pattern, I got mine on e-bay, im not sure if it is still up there or not

As an update, I did a comparison between NWU-A trial and the Issue NWU

The issue stuff REALLY pops in the colors more, the trial stuff is over all more grey, in the issue set the lights are lighter and the darks darker. Its interesting to see the comparison between an accepted trial pattern and the actual product.

The trial patterns are really cool and that and snow marpat is what i'm aiming for.

Did you ever notice the same 4 people from the trial comparison charts appear in many of those "in-use" photos?

navax wrote:The trial patterns are really cool and that and snow marpat is what i'm aiming for.

Oh yeah, Snow MARPAT is hard to find, I bought my piece from Owen when he was just happening to sell one. I am still seeing the NWU Trial patterns around from time to time, want me to PM you next time I scope some?

Camo_fiend wrote:Did you ever notice the same 4 people from the trial comparison charts appear in many of those "in-use" photos?

Ha ha..yeah. im sure that I would recognize them on the street if I ran into them! Thats how many times they popped when I was researching and trying to find photos!