Why wear multiple camo patterns?

>>34766769
>You get what you get and you don't throw a fit

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>>34766769
90% of the time it's a supply issue.

Woodland MOPP suits and DCU helmet covers where a super aesthetic combo though.

Because you haven't yet been issued the right pattern for the theatre...

But in Helmand - where that photo was very likely taken - the mix works well - hence the change to MTP/Multicam.

Could just be that the top was too dirty/damaged, too!

>>34766769
Lack of DDPM or possible loss.

>>34766769
Sometimes you get issued equipment in new camo but still have a lot of your old shit so you use both at the same time. It was a big problem in Poland when we suddenly produced a gajilion OLV carriers in our desert camo and recruits in central Poland would be issued tan-brown carriers and webbing.

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>>34766917
Helmand ain't all desert tan - pic related.

>>34766917
>too dirty
this, got blood splattered once and had to replace a an entire set of clothes, plate carrier and helmet as it was biohazard.

Every time i think about this i get a dead arm and needlejerk from all the tetanus injections i had afterward

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>>34766769
Sometimes, multiple camo patterns and color schemes help to mask you even better, by breaking up your silhouette even better.

>>34767626
Norway, Sweden and Finland all do this, right? Regular pattern combat jackets and snow pants?

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>>34767777
Yup, though it's more of a situation / task / freedom of choice sort of things.

If possible, single camo suit is preferred whenever possible. Full snow-suit inna snowy woods is just pure magic, and the summer variant of M05 does not pale in comparison in pine/ spruce tree forests. That are literally everywhere in Finland & other Nordic countries.

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>>34766769

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>>34766951
The brits even dyed their shirts in the beginning.

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>>34768354

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>>34766769

>>34768519
Helmets looks pretty small for him.

If both patterns work reasonably well when you need them, then it doesn't matter because if it fails to work, it would still fail to work even if you completely matched.

>>34767857
is that a hoodless gorka

wtf i need this

>>34769060
>iltis in Afghanistan

I know they can move fast but fuck that shit.

>>34768703
hes a big guy

>>34766769
Its a supply issue. What you have to understand is that up until the last 20 years we weren't fighting that often in deserts so not alot of desert gear was made initially.

Deserts are generally thoiugh to be hot places so unless and Army has a major commitment ot a war they are only gpoing to produce and issues basic bomat fatigues for all purpose not cold weather or imclimate weather gear because lest face it what government wasn't to spend 100 million on desert cam cold weather jackets or an NBC suit for that matter?? So alot of guys had to bring their own green cam winter weather gear. Iraq and Afghan are freezing in winter, it snows there.

Helmet cam and helmet liners for the same reason. Having something on your helmet is better than nothing so guys who didn't get issued cam covers for their helmets brought their jungle green ones.

>>34769060
Gotta love Canadian logistics

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>>34769468
4U

>>34766954
Of all the shit you can catch from blood, tetanus?