From: Doc Scheffler (roughdoc@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2003 - 04:10:47 PST
Soldiers are issued the green woodland pattern uniforms regularly.
The desert stuff comes out of contingency stocks.
We've been issuing out tons of the stuff with Afghanistan and Iraq going
on. I'd guess these folks didn't get theirs.
The other option MAY be that they didn't get desert colored chemical suits
and are wearing green ones.
In the first gulf war, they made a big deal about getting us the desert
colored uniforms (issued in Saudi, not at home) but then when the war
started, we all put on our green chemical suits!
Doc
> [Original Message]
> From: Nigel Hay - MILWEB <Nigel@milweb.net>
> To: <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Date: 3/23/03 3:41:15 AM
> Subject: [MV] Gulf question
>
> 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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