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Uncover your potential', indeed! Once you stop ogling the girl, though, you might notice that this Australian Special Air Service (SAS) recruiting poster shows Australian Disruptive Pattern Camouflage to very good effect. [Image courtesy Brad Turner collection.]

JASDF desert camouflage pattern
Japan

Article 9 of the Japanese constitution renounces force as a means to settle international disputes and prohibits the creation of an army, navy, or air force. However, a liberal interpretation of Article 9 allows for the formation of armed forces intended for national defence. Thus the Japan Self-Defence Forces (JSDF, Japanese: 自衛隊, trans. jieitai) were created and, their purely domestic roles notwithstanding, various branches of the JSDF use distinctive camouflage uniforms.

Their purely domestic roles notwithstanding, in 2004 the Japanese government sent troops to Iraq, to assist in the U.S. led occupation. This controversial deployment of Japanese troops was the largest since the end of World War II.

In Iraq, the Japan Air Self-Defence Force (JASDF, Japanese: 航空自衛隊, trans. Kōkū Jieitai) employed this five-colour desert camouflage pattern. The design comprises black spots and irregular patches of chocolate brown, light tan and red earth on a pinkish sand-coloured background.

kamouflage.net is grateful to Henrik Clausen, for his invaluable contribution to this article.

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