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On Thursday, airmen will be required to retire their old "Tiger Stripe" camouflage for good and switch to the Operational Camouflage Uniform, or OCP. The service has spent three years phasing in ...
The U.S. Air Force began fielding the Airman Battle Uniform in 2007 to replace the woodland camouflage Battle Dress ... The ABU has a distinctive tiger stripe pattern and features a pixilated ...
In 2010 the Air Force grew worried that tiger-stripe camouflage would make airmen more visible when standing next to better camouflaged Army personnel, so it allowed some personnel to instead wear ...
The Air Force chief of staff chose a tiger-stripe camouflage design — which the Marines had ruled ... He said groups called the Joint Clothing and Textiles Governance Board and the Cross-Service ...
(Which is, in fact, the opposite of camouflage.) So just as the United States was gearing up for war in Iraq, the Air Force selected a new tiger stripe pattern in blue and gray made of a material ...
Soldiers of C Troop, 1st Squadron, 75th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, call a medical evacuation after a successful blank-fire raid on a building in the Fort ...