Take a look at these new BDUs (battle dress uniforms) and tell me what you think they are for.

warfare in the Artic circle? maybe we should take note of the Liberian 'BDU'

they have the white/grey ones already for artic fighting

well spunkgalooo you've got me stumped. i can't think of anything other than night time artic warfare or deep sea warfare.

Urban. These are for city street fighting

Everybody hide your anarchist cookbooks!

Damn, now there will be uniforms for urban warfare. Maybe if we put them all in the Y for an overnight shut in they will all become friends and no one will need to wear them then.

What concrete jungle could you blend into wearing those things? (I am currently on hold with Travelocity's customer service, as I am so dumb as to buy airline tickets for flights leaving on the wrong days. What an idiot I am. Instead of Muzak, I get to listen to Billie Holiday sing about what is this thing called love, and now I'm listening to Sting's "Mad About You," which is nice, because I haven't heard it in years and years. "A stone's throw from Jerusalem...")

you could blend it at night far better with the new colors versus the green/brown/tan/black they are wearing now.

Argh. It's going to cost $80 to make the ticket changes, and I have to wait to buy new tickets until after I've received the current ones in the mail and have sent them back and tracked them w/ FedEx to make sure they've been returned and received. All because I'm careless and didn't check to see that one dropdown box had the right number in it. This bums me out. Ok, back to the BDUs. What about black? Well, anyway, I'm sure the military's fashion designers did their research.

the blue camoflage is real? hurray! i see it in army stores but i always thought it was a made-up one, like that ugly 'cyber-flage' that's like regular green camo but pixelated. Or that girly camoflage with pink that shows up sometimes in malls. Or the pants i have which have been mocked as "slaughterhouse camoflage", made of black white and red. I never know what to make of it. anyway, the blue camo is real! yay!

What is this "cyber-flage" of which you speak? Any pictures?

African BDU

That Liberian BDU looks like a P-Funk show gone horribly awry. I think that the "urban BDU" looks like its made for european/northern urban areas. I mean, look at that photo again, then think of the primary color of Middle Eastern cities. They'd stick out like sore thumbs. If it were for American cities, they would need spray painted tags on them.

see? it's nasty. (its real name is "American digital disruptive camouflage pattern")

"That Liberian BDU looks like a P-Funk show gone horribly awry." I love it. I am having trouble keeping my laughter down. I was looking at the flowered over-alls.. but I imagine those poor souls grab what they can. DAMMIT.

I just read something that said those uniforms are replacing the desert BDU's and standard BDUs. I cannot understand that. It must be a night thing.

hot damn, it's offical, it's ugly, and my taxes created it! oh, the things you learn on the internet! --- "WASHINGTON — They might be the few and the proud, but the U.S. Marine Corps isn’t alone in its trailblazing effort to make a distinctively flashy fashion statement. The Canadian army was there first. The Marine Corps just started field-testing the computer-generated, digitally dappled "cammies," or camouflage uniforms, while the Canadian forces began field-testing them in 1995. In fact, the Canadian army has been researching the feasibility of digitally designed uniforms and collecting data since 1988, said Canadian Lt. Col. Jacques Levesque, project manager for the Clothe solider program. "We’re at the leading edge of this," he said. Both the Corps’ pixilated uniform and the "new Canadian disruptive pattern," or CADPAT, are designed to blend better with surroundings, while standing out among other services’ uniforms. Canadian research proves the pixilated uniforms hide soldiers better, he said. For example, between two soldiers standing side-by-side, one clad in the digitally designed uniform and the other in the traditional battle dress uniform, there is a 40 percent less chance of being detected from 200 meters away in the improved version, he said. And there’s an entire science behind the production of the uniforms. Different fabrics absorb dyes differently, and the Canadian army has spent five years working with companies to perfect the mix to render the best pattern. The Canadian government holds the copyright to the digital pattern and the Danish company DADCON owns the algorithms and digital analysis that make up the patterns." ----

Canada is looking real good to me these days.

cmon up! I'll take you to Wonderland and you can meet Spongebob and get your picture taken with him. Then i'll fix ya some Limeaide.

Daaaag, Wisper. That's just, well, fugly.

I've been talking to the hubby about possibly moving to Canada, but I've heard that they are not accpeting new Visa's or something like that. Which parts of Canada are French speaking? I took 4 years of French and my mom had set up a job for me somewhere in Canada with her company to be a translator... of course then I started dating my husband and I fell in love and of course turned down the job. But I was kind of hoping to maybe try again...

Quebec is Francophone. I saw the new USMC "digital camo" BDUS when I was at Camp Pendleton earlier this year, and I was wondering about it. I wonder when they will hit the surplus stores, I need some new BDU trousers. The ones I am wearing now are developing serious holes in the side pockets. You can't beat BDUs for summer field clothing.

you could get any number of sweet, stable bi-lingual jobs anywhere in the country if you speak french. Every single government job, even the lowliest office position, you must speak french. Everyone who works for every airline has to speak french. And Via Rail employees. And everyone in Ottawa. Normally speaking, french people live in Quebec and New Brunswick, and half of Ottawa.

don't do it sem, it's fugly!

Actually, i need a good pair of used BDUs that have been broken in. Mine have been the most comfortable pair of pants I've ever owned.

well, there's no arguing that, i'm wearing some of them pants right now. And the shorts are comfy too. i merely try to steer you away from the cyber-flage. It's in abundance at our surplus stores. "Look at me! I'm a badly rendered PlayStation 2 enemy!"

I acutally like it. Our troops don't wear BDU's as a fashion statement, you know. I'll probably buy a pair if they start looking like they'll take over the old variety. --Elijah