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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.]

Vertical tiger-stripe
United States of America

The U.S. military advisors stationed in Việt Nam soon realised that their issue OD green fatigues were not suitable for the waging of a guerrilla war. As a result, some ordered indigenous 'tigerstripe' camouflage uniforms from in-country tailors, while others utilised the last World War 2 stocks of USMC-issue jungle camouflage. Still others resorted to commercially-produced camouflage.

Allegedly the camouflage pattern shown on this page was produced under contract, by Ranger, for individual SOG units in Việt Nam. Based upon ARVN tiger-stripe camouflage, it is supposed to have been intended for use as a night camouflage pattern; for this reason it is more neutrally-coloured than typical Vietnamese tigerstripe patterns, comprising black and brown elements on a greyish-green background. The vertical alignment of the stripes is said to have increased concealment among trees in rainforests.

Having said all this, it must also be remarked that the example shown here is dated 1977. I should therefore be grateful if somebody, who knows more about the subject than I do, would either confirm or deny the validity of this particular camouflage pattern.

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