[Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!]

Two studies by the Army Natick Soldier Systems Center and one by Army
Special Operations Com*mand show that the Army’s Uni*versal Camouflage
Pattern, now criticized by soldiers and Con*gress, performs poorly
when pitted against other camouflage pat*terns.

The two-year study completed in March 2009 confirmed what Army experts
concluded in 2006: that the Army’s UCP is less effective than other
patterns available since 2002, well before the Army adopted the
current camouflage for the Army Combat Uniform.

Officials released the 2009 Nat*ick study Sept. 14 in response to a
Freedom of Information Act request filed by Army Times.

Although the Army demonstrat*ed the ability to rapidly field other
changes to soldiers’ combat equip*ment during the same period — the
latest advancements in soldier and vehicle armor, for example —
officials failed to move with the same urgency when it came to
effective camouflage.

Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., chair*man of the powerful House Appro*
priations defense subcommittee, took up the issue in mid-June after
hearing complaints from “a dozen” Army noncommissioned officers who
told him the ACU’s pattern is ineffective in Afghanistan’s brown and
green countryside.

Murtha gave the Army until Sept. 30 to come up with a new pat*tern.
“We want to work with the Army to ensure that the current uniform is
the right camouflage pattern and that it is fielded imme*diately,”
Murtha told Army Times.

http://www.murtha.house.gov/index.ph...798&Item id=1

What a socialist communist traitorous creep. .

Do you have anything to add, 2pid? Probably not as you wouldn't know a
uniform if it bit you in the ass. LoL.

[George M. Middius[_4_]]

Shhhh! said:

Murtha gave the Army until Sept. 30 to come up with a new pat*tern.

What's with all the gratuitous hyphens? Are you sending a subliminal coded
message to Stynchblob?

What a socialist communist traitorous creep.

Scottie has already commented on this issue, you know. Murtha's plan is to
have the "ineffective" uniforms replaced, and then buy them up on the cheap
from the Army. He'll use them for upholstery in the VIP lounge at his little
airport in Pittsburgh.