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Posted: 10/27/2010 7:00:47 AM EST
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Only in Afghanistan. That's what I heard anyway, a couple months back.
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Posted: 10/27/2010 7:14:44 AM EST
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Yup, only for ops in A-Stan.
Also, the Brits are using Multicam as well... 
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Posted: 10/27/2010 8:31:14 AM EST
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My brother's ANG unit is training up and will be heading over the A-stan very soon. They were issued MC when they activated but are not allowed to wear any of it until they get overseas.
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Posted: 10/27/2010 9:00:50 AM EST
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Thats what happened with our company. Its all sitting back in storage right now. We are apparently still waiting on alot of our gear. How is working out over there? I got a quick glimpse of the stuff and it looks pretty nice. Alot of the guys in my company are really glad that some of the hook and loop has been replaced with buttons.
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Posted: 10/27/2010 2:43:53 PM EST
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4th BCT, 10th MTN was the first BCT /major unit (excluding Spec Ops units) to get full issue Multi cam PRIOR to deployment very recently.
Other units, to include mine are getting bits and pieces for our upcoming deployment to OEF. Talking to the RFI teams, the Army isnt ready to go full blown, main stream with Multicam yet. Dont plan to wear Multicam anywhere besides A-ghan. Even going on R and R from A-ghan you have to wear the ACU's back to the states. I cant recall the exact message off the top of my head, but DA has a message concerning Multicam wear ( MILPER or ALARACT). |
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Posted: 10/27/2010 5:02:53 PM EST
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yea, my recruiter dug up a memo like that and forwarded it to me. It was pretty specific about not wearing it except over there on missions. I really hope this doesn't get super confusing.
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Posted: 10/27/2010 5:21:58 PM EST
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yea, my recruiter dug up a memo like that and forwarded it to me. It was pretty specific about not wearing it except over there on missions. I really hope this doesn't get super confusing. Nothing super confusing, I bet. It just means more ISU's and sealands to carry all the uniforms. Or no x-box's and big screens for deployments. |
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Posted: 10/27/2010 6:56:21 PM EST
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all the 10th mountain guys are wearing it already
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Posted: 10/27/2010 7:40:19 PM EST
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Not that many poeple in the stan have it right now. 10th Mountain advance party has it. I guess it blends in well for the staff guys offices. Funny thing, the special forces guys are moving to different patterns. Guess we rained on their parade. Saw a bunch yesterday in desert tiger stripe. It looks cool .
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Posted: 10/27/2010 11:52:44 PM EST
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Quoted: Not that many poeple in the stan have it right now. 10th Mountain advance party has it. I guess it blends in well for the staff guys offices. Funny thing, the special forces guys are moving to different patterns. Guess we rained on their parade. Saw a bunch yesterday in desert tiger stripe. It looks cool . All the SF guys I have worked with have been wearing UCP-D, except for the Canadian SF team that lived next to us for a while, they all had multicam. I just turned in my sizes for multicam issue but am not holding my breath. I only hope I get it because I have ripped all the crotches out on my FRACU's. |
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Posted: 10/28/2010 7:03:59 AM EST
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Got a complete multicam issue in early August. 2nd BCT 34th ID Iowa National Guard.
We also got these junk Danner Mountain boots that need a good two months to break in. However, we can't wear them on a busy street on post, the chow hall, the orderly room, motor pool, PX. Basically there is a ten foot diameter circle spray painted on the grass outside our barracks where we can work little circles around in from 1500 to 1510 to break them in. |
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Posted: 10/28/2010 7:41:34 AM EST
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Nice to see that the Commmands still havent learned shit........Im sure there are overzealous CSMs that are light on the right running around enforcing AR670-1 and PT belts, cause thats what we need to be concerned with in a war zone.....
Got a complete multicam issue in early August. 2nd BCT 34th ID Iowa National Guard. We also got these junk Danner Mountain boots that need a good two months to break in. However, we can't wear them on a busy street on post, the chow hall, the orderly room, motor pool, PX. Basically there is a ten foot diameter circle spray painted on the grass outside our barracks where we can work little circles around in from 1500 to 1510 to break them in. |
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Posted: 10/28/2010 12:45:32 PM EST
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Army times confirmed that deploying units are getting multi cams, and hinted that the army may be completely switching over soon. Check out the 01Nov issue's insert.
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Posted: 10/28/2010 12:59:30 PM EST
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We're supposed to get them in December-January, not holding my breath. We get an article 15 if we're not wearing our TI belt, now they're going to put more effective camo under it? I hope the manuever units get it first, but OTOH, having a seperate uniform for fobbits is going to make Taliban targeting choices a lot easier...
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Posted: 10/28/2010 5:20:00 PM EST
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We arn't getting multi cam. They wont even give us new boots.
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Posted: 10/28/2010 8:18:45 PM EST
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We arn't getting multi cam. They wont even give us new boots. Not very much information. Active Army? Guard? Boy scout? Military? Chinese miner? Combat arms are whatever they call it now-a-days? Heading to Afghanistan soon? Your post doesn't make sense and it hurts my head. |
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Posted: 10/29/2010 10:56:40 AM EST
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We arn't getting multi cam. They wont even give us new boots. Not very much information. Active Army? Guard? Boy scout? Military? Chinese miner? Combat arms are whatever they call it now-a-days? Heading to Afghanistan soon? Your post doesn't make sense and it hurts my head. troll? 
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Posted: 10/29/2010 11:49:56 AM EST
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We arn't getting multi cam. They wont even give us new boots. Not very much information. Active Army? Guard? Boy scout? Military? Chinese miner? Combat arms are whatever they call it now-a-days? Heading to Afghanistan soon? Your post doesn't make sense and it hurts my head. troll? Huh? |
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Posted: 10/29/2010 12:22:02 PM EST
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We arn't getting multi cam. They wont even give us new boots. Not very much information. Active Army? Guard? Boy scout? Military? Chinese miner? Combat arms are whatever they call it now-a-days? Heading to Afghanistan soon? Your post doesn't make sense and it hurts my head. troll? Huh? monstercat79 is saying 14jmedic is a troll. Edit. Or maybe me. |
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Posted: 10/29/2010 12:25:18 PM EST
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We arn't getting multi cam. They wont even give us new boots. Not very much information. Active Army? Guard? Boy scout? Military? Chinese miner? Combat arms are whatever they call it now-a-days? Heading to Afghanistan soon? Your post doesn't make sense and it hurts my head. If you noticed the soldier on the first pic I posted, he is wearing a 4th ID patch, so I can assure you the active guys are getting them; the Brits have been issued Muticam since May of this year, according to the MOD (Ministry Of Defence) and all British troops will be using it by 2012 (in time for the end of the world). Here's another pic of our boys wearing them. According to an ABC report, the pentagon authorized the new camo parttern in February of this year; though as with anything in the military, the logistics of the adoption is slow as pond scum and you will see units in Afghanistan wearing ACUs along with Multicams. Is really a pish-posh of camo patterns and uniform types being used in Afghanistan right now. |
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Posted: 10/29/2010 12:33:50 PM EST
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We arn't getting multi cam. They wont even give us new boots. Not very much information. Active Army? Guard? Boy scout? Military? Chinese miner? Combat arms are whatever they call it now-a-days? Heading to Afghanistan soon? Your post doesn't make sense and it hurts my head. If you noticed the soldier on the first pic I posted, he is wearing a 4th ID patch, so I can assure you the active guys are getting them; the Brits have been issued Muticam since May of this year, according to the MOD (Ministry Of Defence) and all British troops will be using it by 2012 (in time for the end of the world). http://blogs.abcnews.com/.a/6a00d8341c4df253ef01310f1f7da5970c-pi Here's another pic of our boys wearing them. According to an ABC report, the pentagon authorized the new camo parttern in February of this year; though as with anything in the military, the logistics of the adoption is slow as pond scum and you will see units in Afghanistan wearing ACUs along with Multicams. Is really a pish-posh of camo patterns and uniform types being used in Afghanistan right now. You misunderstand me. Maybe my fault. I want to know who 14jmedic is and why he/she is crying about not getting multicam uniforms and new boots. I know some of our US Army folks are getting them. Edit spelling |
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Posted: 10/29/2010 2:36:34 PM EST
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oh.
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Posted: 11/2/2010 7:02:19 PM EST
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We just got multicam last week, they're supposed to let us start wearing it in garrison sometime in December. The boots suck major ass, I will definitely NOT be wearing them in Afghanistan.
In related news, the plate carrier is pretty friggin sweet. |
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Posted: 11/3/2010 6:51:06 AM EST
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We arn't getting multi cam. They wont even give us new boots. Not very much information. Active Army? Guard? Boy scout? Military? Chinese miner? Combat arms are whatever they call it now-a-days? Heading to Afghanistan soon? Your post doesn't make sense and it hurts my head. troll? That'd be my guess...either that or an airsoft kid wanting someone to feel sorry and cough up a "donation". Perhaps they won't "give" him new boots because they're not authorized wear for girl scouts. 
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Posted: 11/3/2010 8:24:39 AM EST
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He may be a troll, but apparently the Army is short of boots- we only got one pair of the mountain boots instead of the authorized 2, and a few sizes were completely out. They are going to a new pattern and vendor though, I understand, so maybe they just stopped procuring the old ones.
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Posted: 11/3/2010 4:36:40 PM EST
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Is everyone getting new stuff or is it just combat arms. I havnt heard anything about get new stuff.
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Posted: 11/3/2010 11:51:33 PM EST
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Is everyone getting new stuff or is it just combat arms. I havnt heard anything about get new stuff. Everyone is getting it now it seems. Friend of mine at Ft. Knox got MC on her kit but still has ACUs. |
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Posted: 11/6/2010 9:38:54 PM EST
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We've been in country for about 4 months now and they just now confirmed our sizes for multicams.. Does that make me think we're going to get them anytime soon? HA!
I've been to plenty of team houses.. The SF guys don't give a damn about multicams.. The guys that wanted them bought their own. Hell, they're wearing woodland BDUs most of the time when they're not on a major FOB... |
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Posted: 11/6/2010 9:40:28 PM EST
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Heard that the SF guys are already using it?
...from a pretty reliable source. He says ACU is on the way out.
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Posted: 11/6/2010 9:45:30 PM EST
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Yeah, they've been using it. The guys in our unit were never issued it though. So any that we're using is bought out of our pockets... I'm sure some other SOF units have had it issued. Like I said, our guys are mostly using woodland BDUs.. That's just what I've seen personally though..
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Posted: 11/7/2010 12:19:12 AM EST
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Yup, only for ops in A-Stan. You maybe your saying "only in for ops in support of OEF" ? There are theaters other then A-Stan where Mulitcam is issued and worn. 
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Posted: 11/7/2010 12:37:34 AM EST
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Yup, only for ops in A-Stan. You maybe your saying "only in for ops in support of OEF" ? There are theaters other then A-Stan where Mulitcam is issued and worn.
OEF is the general rubric for all GWOT/OCO/Long war operations operations outside of Iraq. CT/AT-FID missions to the PI are OEF missions, same thing with FID missions in Yemen, one is OEF-PI and the other is OEF-AP. |
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Posted: 11/7/2010 12:59:44 AM EST
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Yup, only for ops in A-Stan. You maybe your saying "only in for ops in support of OEF" ? There are theaters other then A-Stan where Mulitcam is issued and worn.
OEF is the general rubric for all GWOT/OCO/Long war operations operations outside of Iraq. CT/AT-FID missions to the PI are OEF missions, same thing with FID missions in Yemen, one is OEF-PI and the other is OEF-AP. Yeah thats kind of what I was trying to say...but better. 
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Posted: 11/7/2010 1:17:38 AM EST
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Quoted: Yeah, they've been using it. The guys in our unit were never issued it though. So any that we're using is bought out of our pockets... I'm sure some other SOF units have had it issued. Like I said, our guys are mostly using woodland BDUs.. That's just what I've seen personally though.. Any idea on the reason for departure from ACU?
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Posted: 11/7/2010 2:45:54 AM EST
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Yeah, they've been using it. The guys in our unit were never issued it though. So any that we're using is bought out of our pockets... I'm sure some other SOF units have had it issued. Like I said, our guys are mostly using woodland BDUs.. That's just what I've seen personally though.. Any idea on the reason for departure from ACU? Why are the ACU's on the way out or should be; horrible camoflage contrast, ripping, fraying, velcro is expensive, etc. In a mountanous environment the ACU's make you look like you're wearing neon. ACU's wear out in a few months of heavy use. I have BDU's that are years old and look better than some of my newer ACU's. Back a few years ago when testing was going on for the new pattern, the ACU pattern actually placed low compared to other patterns like Mutlicam. Theres a few conspiracy theories about why DA picked ACU over others, but we'll never know why. Just like why we went to pin on badges, that was a real Einsteen move. I've been to a few briefings lately from DA level personnel and they say ACU's will continue to be the main stream uniform for the near future......... 
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