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Congress Orders New Uniforms for Afghanistan

Posted on 2009 under Blogs, Military, Operations In Afghanistan, US_Military | No Comment

16 Jun

www.armytimes.com/news/2009/06/military_afghanistan_uniforms_061509w/

“Congress is about to order new combat uniforms for troops in Afghanistan after hearing complaints that camouflage that was fine in Iraq doesn’t work so well in a mountainous and often muddy environment.”

Bouhammer can tell you that we knew this in 2006. This just goes to show how slow Government moves. It took over three years for them to figure out that the all environment combat uniform is apparently not well designed for “all” environments.

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