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Quote:Secretary of the Army John McHugh is about to decide on a recommendation to field MultiCam to soldiers in Afghanistan.

“A recommendation has been made to the Secretary of the Army, and he will make an announcement soon,” Army spokesman Lt. Col. Jimmie Cummings told Army Times.

Cummings would not comment on the recommendation, but Army Times sources say Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey has recommended that the Army issue MultiCam to soldiers in Afghanistan.

The announcement comes eight months after the late Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., directed the Army to look at new camouflage patterns. Murtha said “a dozen” Army sergeants told him that the Army Combat Uniform’s pattern is ineffective in Afghanistan.

Murtha’s directive prompted Program Executive Office Soldier to launch a multiphase effort to search for potential camouflage patterns to replace the Universal Camouflage Pattern of the ACU.

PEO Soldier’s camouflage initiative came after the March 2009 release of a two-year Army study that showed how MultiCam, a pattern made by Crye Precision LLC, outperformed the UCP in woodland, desert and urban settings.

“Photosimulation Camouflage Detection Test,” conducted by the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center between March 2007 and March 2009, pitted the current UCP pattern against alternative camouflage patterns. MultiCam and three other patterns outperformed the Army Combat Uniform’s UCP.

In another study, Natick also chose MultiCam over UCP. “Computerized Visual Camouflage Evaluation” was conducted between November 2005 and July 2006. It found that “MultiCam performed significantly better than the UCP in most conditions.”

Source:

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/02/ar...n_021710w/

OMG... is that means I have to reinvest my uniform to multicam to be really effective on the battlefield??????

w00t! i will get MC at OCS then!

yes, it may be used very soon:

Quote:According to Army sources the Chief of Staff of the Army approved a plan today to field MultiCam to all Army forces in Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) beginning as soon as possible. This is implementation of the decision brief’s Course of Action 1 which called for the fielding of MultiCam to all Army personnel engaged in OEF-A. Other options offered to GEN Casey included fielding a less robust MultiCam package focused on phased implementation with ground maneuver elements as well as a plan to maintain the status quo which is the use of the Universal Camouflage Pattern. It is important to note that the decision to field MultiCam uniforms and equipment currently only affects forces operating in OEF-A. Contracts could begin to be modified as early as this week and Soldiers could begin to see clothing and equipment as early as this summer.

http://soldiersystems.net/category/multicam/

Updates: http://militarytimes.com/blogs/gearscout/

From another forum:

MC Addict Wrote:[...]

According to a statement obtained by Military.com, Army Secretary John McHugh decided that the so-called "MultiCam" pattern developed by New York-based Crye Precision is the most effective camouflage in the varied terrain of Afghanistan's forests, deserts, mountains and rural villages.

[...]

The Army will begin issuing the MultiCam "fire-resistant Army Combat Uniform" to troops deploying to Afghanistan this summer before shipping them to troops already there who are still wearing UCP, said Army spokesman Lt. Col. Jimmie Cummings. The Army has nearly 48,000 troops deployed to Afghanistan.

Joes will receive a full set of combat uniforms, including combat shirt, plate carriers, packs, pouches and helmet covers in MultiCam.

[...]

They're going for a full gear replacement... that's pretty neat from the Army !

LOL. To think they chose ACU over Multicam back then.

ACU blends very well, actually. http://cal50ae.de/40054.html

ACU and MC i like both actually

btw its official. anyone going to afghanistan after july gets MC! which means i should be getting mine soon!