For Desert, UCP has way too much grey and tends to be too bright, but most deem it tolerable. Most big cities of countries we are bringing the business to have more tans than classic grey concrete. Only draw back there, is we aren't fighting in New York City. Since UCP is mostly grey it makes for a pretty good urban camo hands down. Moving onto the core hate, they clearly show intent to use UCP in forest, urban, and desert environments. Some PEO soldier pics show UCP coats on some of the prototype weapons, so at least someone is thinking about it. It is time we start looking into finishing issue guns with at least an earthy brown or green. Although a whole other can of worms, while you are busy being color-czar it would have been nice to note all the big black guns soldiers have to tote around. Nice pick champ, call me crazy but Desert Sand 500 on Foliage Green 504 would have done just fine. What is one of the colors team ACU/UCP chooses for badges and nametapes?.black of course. Lets magically say I'm wrong and PRETEND black is a worthless camo color. Hyperstealth camo has a page that explains black even further: You know what else 'catches the eye'? The heavy contrast of the light tan you use in UCP against a dark forest. When one uses black it still reflects light, it doesn't become some black hole of light. Black may not work for your project, but it works in others. Using a little black and other darks helps add depth to camo simulating the overlaping vegetation and shadows. Don't come to the camo community and put a blanket ban on black and call yourself a genius. Next, in the right context black is a very useful color for environments such as lush forests and jungles. The pattern is not a 100-percent solution in every environment, but a good solution across the board.''įirst of all, black is only in the forest version of MARPAT. 'The current colors on the ACU are green-woodland, grey-urban environments and sand brown-desert. The color scheme in the ACU capitalizes on the environments that we operate in,' Myhre said. The drawback to black is that its color immediately catches the eye, he added. 1st Class Jeff Myhre, the Clothing and Individual Equipment noncommissioned officer in charge.īlack is no longer useful on the uniform because it is not a color commonly found in nature.

'There were 20 changes made to the uniform, to include removing the color black and adapting the digital print from the Marine Corps uniform to meet the needs of the Army, said Sgt. I will start the party off with the main ACU press release article to quote: UCP isn't necessarily a bad camouflage, but it is not qualified to do what is asked of it.

There is plenty to debate on how it compares to the BDU, but take in all the plusses and minuses and I feel ACU is in the right direction. Now back to my spiteful article, my main grief is with the color of UCP and not the ACU design itself. In the spirit of being most correct, I will use the term UCP when referring to the actual camo color. Although ACU is the name of a uniform and not a color, it typically gets the point across. Most gear companies label their UCP gear ACU since it is a term most people know.

Other variants I've seen to aid in confusion have been: ARPAT, AUC for Army Universal Camo or Digital Army Pattern / Army Digital Pattern. UCP stands for Universal Camo Pattern which is the pattern that the ACU, Army Combat Uniform, uses. For starters I have to breakdown all the acronyms just to make sure you know what the hell I'm talking about.

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