by sh4pak Wed Dec 12, 2012 12:17 pm
--" not necesarily for camouflage purposes but to engender a sense of unit/service pride."
This is the best, and most reasonable explanation I've heard for any of the rather quixotic and/or oxymoronic uniform-patterns that are out there. (Chinese Fireman's Camo being the absolute pinnacle).
When I still worked with the military, and when the US NWU was still in trials, an officer told me that the pattern was ostensibly chosen to hide oil stains, and other fouling that was likely to happen aboard ship. If that were true, I think that a more organic version, such as this one, would be more appropriate. I can't remember the last time I managed to get pixels of paint on me...