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U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained (2013)

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Re: U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained (2013)

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It appears that someone circumnavigated the scientific process and forced UCP in. That would be whoever benefitted financially from the decision to fuck our soldiers over.

Are these people in prison yet?

What law was broken?

Re: U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained (2013)

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It appears that someone circumnavigated the scientific process and forced UCP in. That would be whoever benefitted financially from the decision to fuck our soldiers over.

Having worked (as a civilian contractor) for the military it's equally plausible that the decision was screwed up for other reasons. High up decision makers that "trust their gut" over what the data tells them or who arbitrarily decide that a certain pattern looks silly to them.

It's absolutely not intuitive that the digital looking blocky camouflage patterns [1] are going to perform better than the blob style camo patterns they replaced.

1 - https://www.businessinsider.com/why-militaries-have-strange-...

Re: U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained (2013)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are these people in prison yet?

What law was broken?

idk, but it seems to undermine national security.

Maybe in here somewhere, "Various statutes supplement the provisions of Chapter 37 to criminalize activities that jeopardize the national defense or national security."

IANAL ;)

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