In April, the U.S. Army plans to unveil a new camouflage strategy that could result in soldiers wearing Marine Corps desert and woodland patterns into combat.

The Army is taking proposals until June 15, after which it plans to review its options and select a "family" of three camouflage patterns -- one for a woodland environment, one for a desert ...

The Marine Corps says it won’t have a full stock of the woodland-pattern camouflage combat utility uniform ― the everyday outfit for most Marines ― until summer or fall 2024.

It should follow that when such a uniform is developed, the entire military should transition to it. In 2002, the Marine Corps adopted a digital camouflage pattern called MARPAT.

Featured in desert and woodland colors, its pattern is thought to be among the best available in concealing troops from the naked eye.

Though simple, it was more effective than simple olive green drab camouflage. A more complicated pattern, the Erbsenmuster, or Pea Pattern design issued to Waffen-SS troops some time in 1944.

The digital desert camouflage the militants are wearing resembles the pattern licensed to the U.S. Marine Corps. It's known as MARPAT, which is short for "Marine Pattern." But over the past decade ...

In 2002, the U.S. military had just two kinds of camouflage uniforms. One was green, for the woods. The other was brown, for the desert. Then things got strange. Today, there is one camouflage ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The U.S. Marines’ combat camo, MARPAT, blends the wearer to his surroundings through the use of pixilated fractals, essentially rectangular pixels, which ...