Each branch of the United States armed forces has its own Uniform regulations.
Contents |
| List of current camouflage patterns and uniforms | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Branch | Camouflage pattern | Image | Notes | In use since | |
Army |
Universal Camouflage Pattern, used for the Army Combat Uniform (ACU). Units deployed in Afghanistan use MultiCam instead, known as OCP pattern. |
and |
On June 16 2009, the United States House of Representatives passed a bill requiring the Army to buy new, different uniforms for the War in Afghanistan, with camouflage pattern that would better suit the Afghan environment.[1] As of 2010, US Army units deployed in Afghanistan are being issued uniforms with MultiCam pattern. | 2005 | |
Marine Corps |
MARPAT pattern, used for the Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform (MCCUU) in two variants, woodland and desert. | USMC MARPAT pattern was the first digitalized (pixelated) pattern in the US Military. | 2002 | ||
Navy |
Navy Working Uniform (NWU). | There are three variants of the camouflage. Standard blue-grey for shipboard use, and then digital woodland and digital desert variants, previously known as AOR I and AOR II, similar to MARPAT and CADPAT. | 2009 | ||
Air Force |
Digitalized tigerstripe, used for the Airman Battle Uniform (ABU). Air Force ground-based units, security units, and special operations units, that are deployed in Afghanistan, use MultiCam instead, known as OCP pattern. |
and |
Fielding of MultiCam began in September 2010. | 2007 | |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||