From: David Ball (vought@msn.com)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2003 - 01:14:33 PST
Not all the fighting is in the desert allot if you have been watching CNN
tonight is on blacktop roads around cities and in terrain other than sand.
Also more than likely some units are from deployments where there uniforms
were forest patterns and they were not requisitioned tan Camouflaged gear.
Dave
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From: "Alan R Wise" <awise1@cinci.rr.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Gulf question
> on 3/23/03 1:41 AM, Nigel Hay - MILWEB at Nigel@milweb.net wrote:
>
> > In footage just now of troops at Umm Qsr, I was suprised to see the US
> > soldiers wearing dark green combat kit, yet their packs were in the
desert
> > camo and blended in to background, yet the troops stood out very
clearly -
> > can anyone explain?
> > Nige
> >
> >
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> The dark green are the NBC suits. All forces are wearing them just in
case,
> with masks at the ready. Not all forces were issued with desert camo ones.
>
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