![]() We reserve the right to refuse advertising to anyone I have found Marpat (if you can get your hands on an MCCUU) to be extremely effective in Missouri. In fact, it’s a smart use of limited resources. If you think a MARPAT utility uniform and Coyote PPE/gear work well you’re high. Maybe if the gear was made in matching MARPAT it would be more worth it, but a solid brown color doesn’t assist camouflage. There ARE slight variations in the “multicam” derived patterns used by the Brits, Aussies, NZers AND with commercial Multicam and US “scorpion” multicam. Shade, Multicam, US4CES Woodland on foliage - all patterns in You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. ADS Inc./Guy Cramer Aside from that, there has never been a large purchase of SOF-unique clothing for MARSOC. BUT, only NSW personnel will be authorised to wear the desert NWU Type II (AOR 1) pattern uniform – all other non-NSW personnel will continue to wear the 3-color DCU.ADS and partner Guy Cramer Are (modified to include sewn on multicam nametapes, qual badges, chest rank, and velcro on shoulder pockets to allow wear of US unit patches and US flag patch). NWU Type III – woodland colours digital camouflage patternīut wait there’s more! In a particularly convoluted twist of logic, the USN has decided that any authorised Navy personnel engaged in shore-based operations in temperate or tropical regions can wear the NWU Type III (AOR 2) pattern uniforms.NWU Type II – desert colours digital camouflage pattern.NWU Type I – blue-grey digital camouflage pattern.The final pieces of the puzzle are that the AOR patterns will be slightly altered by the inclusion of the Navy’s Anchor-Constitution-Eagle logo, and they will now be part of the Navy Working Uniform system: ![]() It turns out that it won’t be adopted as the standard camo for all of US SOCOM instead, it will only be used by the US Navy – and Naval Special Warfare personnel in particular. So, that’s the pattern sorted – now who’s actually going to wear it? Again, the answer was a bit of a surprise. Information recently posted on Soldier Systems Daily shows that AOR 2 is in fact an earlier colouration for MARPAT that was rejected by the USMC! Perhaps most surprising of all, it turns out that the AOR patterns are not even an “improvement” upon, or a “GenII” version of MARPAT. Well, the AOR patterns do look very very similar to MARPAT, but as you can see from the images below, the colours are in fact slightly different. Many people who’ve now seen AOR 1 and AOR 2 have mistakenly thought that they are simply MARPAT with the EGA logo element removed. And the pattern is the same digital pixelated pattern used for the NWU, MARPAT, UCP (ACU) and CADPAT camouflage patterns. So, first of all, exactly what does “AOR” stand for, and what is the pattern? AOR stands for “Area Of Responsibility” – in this case meaning either desert / arid terrain regions (AOR 1), or temperate / tropical forested terrain regions (AOR 2). Well, it turns out that the truth – as usual – is less sensational. Finally it was even reported – either prematurely or inaccurately – that AOR 1 and AOR 2 were going to be officially adopted by US SOCOM as an alternative to UCP, MARPAT, NAVPAT and Air Force TigerStripe. People had also suggested that it was some kind of secret, high-speed camo designed by Crye Precision and would only be used on their clothing and gear sold to US SOCOM. – and any time a photo of s spec ops operator appeared wearing any kind of unusual camo, it was immediately suggested that he was wearing “AOR”. I’ve seen several different names and descriptions pop up for AOR camo during this time – such as “digi2”, “MARPAT II”, “digi-MultiCam”, etc. After months – if not years – of speculation and rumour, it seems that we at last have resolution to the questions of what AOR camouflage is and who will wear it. ![]()
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