The History of: The US Marine Corps MARPAT Camouflage Pattern & The MCCUU | Uniform History
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Edit: Wanted to address mistakenly referring to Marines occasionally in this video as Corpsmen.
Our first video in The History of series in which we go over the start of the US military's modernization of its camouflage and field uniforms. We start off with the USMC's creation and issuing of its very own camouflage uniform MARPAT.
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That experimental tiger stripe uniform was bad ass
I think it should have been chosen.
I wish we had went with that ...
Agree
What was it named?
Voting in the Military. Soooo rare.....
Members of the USMC are called "Marines", not "Corpsmen".
"Corpsman" is a USN enlisted Medical Technician, who may, or may not, be assigned to the USMC
I should know, I was a "Corpsman" attached to the "Marines".
I know! Who the fuck doesn't know that?
Adrian Firewalker Devil Doc! 👍🏼
@Adrian Firewalker I got to ack doc, what did you do more hand out Motrin or give the silver bullet?
I perfer the term "CorpsPerson"
As a Former Marine, I still think the copyrighting of MARPAT was dumb. It should have been made available to all the services. The silliness of each service wasting money for unique patterns is insane...how much training would that money have facilitated??
Eh who knows, but thanks for your service dude
I agree wholeheartedly, but I doubt the lack of a copyright would have stopped the other services from wanting to develop their own vanity patterns.
To say nothing of the increased risk for confusion in combat. They are called "uniforms" for a reason after all. Marine here as well...and former 03.
The Marines have this complex that makes them think they need to be more special then everyone else
Agreed. Since adopting MARPAT, look at all the camo pattern switching. Army and Navy have both gone through two patterns EACH. Air Force had to get their own pattern in there too. During the days of woodland everybody got the same uniform and nobody complained.
1:57
DOD: So what kinda camouflage do you guys want?
Marines: Something easily recognizable, so we are seen from a mile away.
DOD: * Hands box of crayons *
I hope they told the marines that they can't eat the crayons
@@bruh5361 to late
*hands over multicam*
That really was funny. A trained PAO said the Marines wanted people to see their new Camouflage pattern from a mile away. Wow.
In the ultimate irony, this is exactly what the Army developed.
Hey, just wanted to point ot a small mistake you made. You referred to all Marines as Corpsman, that term specifically refers to Navy enlisted personell who perform a roll similar to that of an Army Medic
Ok so i did hear him say corpsman over and over lol.
I think he was thinking because there are from the corps they’re corpsmen but when it’s just simply marines lol I thought I was going crazy hearing all those corpsmen
I was like “why would they issue the uniform to be tested to only the Corpsman? So they can just lay around all day and give Marines Motrin?”
Oh man, please stop calling Marines corpsman. I’d rather chew tin foil than hear that again. Rah...
Marines. Not Corpsman. Wow. This was the first time I have ever heard this mistake. .... let alone repeated so many times by a military-related channel.
I voted on the"tiger stripe" in 2000... everyone I knew voted the same... You can vote, but if we dont like the vote we will change the vote...
Welcome to the US military where the rules are made up and the opinions of the enlisted don't matter.
Laggy McLaggylag Well, that also doesn’t mean everyone actually did vote tiger stripe. That’s just anecdotal evidence. A ton of people could have voted for what won. Maybe we hear the from the guys who voted for tiger stripes more because they didn’t get their way? And the other voters just moved on?
The tiger stripes look cool in an 80s action movie kind of way. But I do think they actually went with the better uniform. And even if everyone did vote tiger stripe, crowd sourcing opinions isn’t always the best way to go (see who we elect to Congress, and the Yeet Cannon, for proof of that).
A little food for thought: during the last election I had a couple friends who probably would have literally bet their house that Hilary was going to win. Why? They lived in Manhattan. They lived in a bubble. They actually said “I don’t know a single person who is voting for Trump. Hillary is going to win in a landslide.” Clearly that didn’t happen right? It’s fallacious to assume the rest of the Marines thought the same way as the OP and the Marines in the OP’s sphere. Just like it’s fallacious to attribute some sort of malicious motives to the higher ups just because they went with another pattern. Maybe they received more info that didn’t favor tiger stripes? Maybe the votes from the Marines was one aspect of a multi-tiered approach to pick? Maybe they knew the Air Force were going to go with Tiger Stripes and they ran like hell. I don’t know. I’m just glad we didn’t go with them.
Or we'll just throw out the testing results because of contractor kickbacks. *Cough* OCP *Cough*
1337penguinman I have zero doubt contractor kickbacks have played a big role in many situations like this (see the Marines’ MTV and how that was purchased). But with Marpat, I really think they decided that was the best choice. It’s a good uniform. The only one of all the early GWOT patterns still in use. Clearly it’s doing something right.
But I also think they had their minds made up about that digital pattern for some reason. Before the tests started that is. Kind of like how I think they were going with some HK416 variant for their new rifle regardless of if they held a competition (which they didn’t.) I think there’s a decent chance that KAC, FNH, or SIG, LMT, LWRC, and a few others could have provided some very stiff completion for HK. But the Marines (and probably the whole DOD) have this bizarre HK fetish. The HK was going to win. They probably looked at that Canadian pattern, decided they wanted it, and made it happen.
What’s the difference between MARPAT and MCCUU?
MARPAT is clearly the best looking camo out of all the branches
True da army should’ve kept da ucp digital but just changed da color to their own personal design
@@OG420grandmasterthey tried but it still didn’t work. I for one really like the new ACU’s they look good, are comfortable and the new camo looks good
@@prodigy-hu6dy if they would’ve started off with the ucp-Delta the army probably would’ve kept it but either way they could’ve just went straight for the ocp from the beginning
@@OG420grandmaster well if UCP didn’t hijack the competition OCP wouldn’t even exist. It would’ve just been Multicam to begin with
@@prodigy-hu6dy scorpion ocp was made before multicam they chose ucp over it for whatever reason and just kept it stored away, then the civilian version that’s multicam came to be
I'm glad i'm not the only person with a weird facination of camos from the US and other nations.
I always have! But lately it's been over the US Army's new IFV program
Same here. I’ve always like the German Flecktarn and the Vietnamese Tiger Stripe.
@@jona5517Flecktarn is like extremely low resolution digital camouflage.😊 And Tropentarn works just as well in hot sandy environments. I always like to know what other countries are wearing, so I can see whose is better where. The "universal" camouflage sucked, because ACU is equally visible any where. You can spot a soldier in the woods or desert just as easily as in the PX.😂
As someone who was issued Marpat, I will attest to the effectiveness of the green Marpat cammies. They work fantastically in woodland environments. Marines really blend into the woods when wearing them. If you're not paying attention, you might not notice a Marine standing 5 feet away from you in front of some brush. Desert Marpat is nice, but you're not really blending into much when you're patrolling the streets of Anbar provine Iraq. The Army's equivelant grey ACU pattern had the color of gravel and didn't blend into anything. It's good they finally ditched it.
3:20 lol Canada does their military uniform testing in a hockey rink.
Hahaha we gotta do ours on baseball fields now
Hahahaha that's amazing and so typically Canadian.. all that is missing is a DD from Timmies
That's because they recently added hockey fighting to the CAF defendu combatives
It's kind of ironic to say "we want them to see us coming a mile away" in camouflage uniforms.
That’s what we call marine intelligence.
@@kolinmartz I hear in Marine OCS they actually issue you 2 rocks instead of just one, so you can beat them together instead of against your skull as enlisted Marines are taught to do.
1337penguinman you’re spilling state secrets. Shhhhh
@@1337penguinman yea, you actually got 2 sticks and a rock for the whole platoon
" we want them to be able to see us coming a mile away in our new uniforms....."- this is about camouflage, right ??
No it’s about esprit de corp.
"Its the Marines open fire"
'Least it works unlike it's Army counterpart.
it's supposed to mean that if you saw them you would know they were Marines so you would treat them with more respect than the coast guard lol
Dear Marines: You're welcome. Best regards, Canada.
Both of you: You’re Welcome. Best regards, Taxpayers.
CO: “tell us which one you think is best?”
Corpsman running the trial: “tiger stripe”
CO: “Who asked you?”
Marines, not corpsman
We're Marines, not Corpsmen. Corpsmen are Navy medics that get assigned to marine units... as medics.
A) This channel is really underrated. Great content and great narration!
B) The USMC MARPAT is, by far, the best in the Armed Forces. The digital camo patten, and color palette, is not only highly effective, it’s aesthetically pleasing. Yeah - that’s important.
I’m currently in the process of commissioning as a USMC Officer (aviator) from Harvard. Very pleased and excited to see this in-depth and thorough review. Was not pleased with the USAF’s attempt at their debuted OCP.
The Marines also have the best dress blues - period. Not surprised to see them nail their combat uniform, as well.
SO PRETTY THEY LOOK LIKE WOMEN WHEN THEY WEAR THEM
@James, you misspelled “sharp.” But that’s okay. We knew what you meant.
What’s the difference between MARPAT and MCCUU?
@@kdog2757I know it's been three years, but MCCUU is the uniform, MARPAT is the patern.
I was a Navy Corpsman. Marines are Marines, not Corpsmen. Cool video. I remember when Marpat came out. I ran the woodland camo until the deadline. IIRC, they gave us a couple years to change over completely.
The boots got these issued, but we had to buy our own to be in uniform which kind of sucks for the lower enlisted.
I really like that dual tech (?) pattern from 1977.
In 2004 I had marpat gear before a lot of the Marines had it. I'm not bragging. That's just what a specific Marine said to me on trying. I still have it. It's been through hell and back. Those first runs were made well.
We are not called "corpmen". We are Marines. Thank you. Cool video
OldMan Skinner he was probably talking about actual corpmen. You know, since they’re blue and green side, they have to wear a bunch of uniforms.
Does anyone know the difference between MARPAT and MCCUU?
Marine Corps1775 MARPAT = Marine Pattern, MCCUU = Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform
@@kdog2757 MCCUU is the Marine Corps Camouflage Utility Uniform, MARPAT is the camo pattern. So I'd be wearing an MCCUU, one that comes in MARPAT (woodland or desert). I wear cammies that come in the MARPAT design.
Lol i love it, command asks what uniform they liked. Command listened and then classically went the opposite direction
Its to keep you aggressive. Nobody needs a happy watchdog.
@@065Tim lol fr right
"We want to be seen a mile away" isnt that the complete opposite of what camouflage is supposed to be used for
It was a metaphor. They just wanted people to be able to tell them apart from the rest of the US Military without getting in their faces to look for anchors.
A bit of an intimidation tactic... and Marines being Marines, lol. They take huge pride in being who they are.
@@15vertigo I just find the idea of the enemy squinting just to see what camo pattern they have and saying "oh shit, they have 3 extra weeks of training, run away!!"
@@suspicioususer As I said - Marines are gonna Marine, lol
The easily recognizable uniform is more to play into their reputation. Marines have always been known for being highly aggressive and tenacious warriors around the world for well over 100 years now. They wanted to be recognized so that their reputation would instantly come to mind, not just merely "oh shit, they have three more weeks of training." It's something that elite groups of soldiers from around the world have always done and remain to do
So the Marine Corps was the frist branch to turn the camouflage uniform to a fashion show.
Hey, at least theirs worked
The Marine Corps has always been a fashion show.
@@nightflyer3242 So true. The only reason they adopted the M45 a few years ago was because they wanted to be the cool branch with the fancy 1911's, but honestly im here for it.
"We wanted to be instantly recognized."
Pink tutus will do that.
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Not gonna lie, I'd love to wear the MarPat! They look amazing and from what I can tell their effectiveness is amazing as well!
This channel needs attention
Damn I wish we would've adopted the tiger one
Looked so cool.
@@Masta_E Do you want to "look cool" or for the camo to work and keep you alive ?
4:27 mind you, coreman is thearines version of a medic. (who is actually a sailor) the designation for a member of the USMC is just marines
Oh man i'm so glad i found this channel. I love camo patterns and i collect uniforms !
Marine Corps: We wanted a new camo to stand out from other branches
Others: Oh cool, see that's why the Marine Corps is better.
Air Force: We wanted a new camo to stand out from the other branches
Others: Ugh, look at the Chair Force wasting money on useless stuff again, don't they know what the camouflage is not supposed to stand out?
It's because the Marines had a good pattern, the Air Forces camo was Garbo. UCP worked better
@@TristenTheArgonian I know, it's just that in other places that discuss camo patterns the Air Force gets flak for having the idea of a camo pattern the distinguish themselves from the others.
Its more because what they came out with was total shit Marines made a better uniform at a fraction of the cost
At least MARPAT actually has woodland colours for woodland and desert colours for desert, with the Army they took the colours from one of the worst performing camo patterns in testing, and slapped it on the MARPAT pattern swatch, and called it a day, rushed a frankenpattern into service with little to no testing just to make the US Military look modern and futuristic, and the Air Force and Navy followed suit. My only criticism of MARPAT is the desert version just uses a desert recolour of the woodland pattern, whereas the basis for MARPAT, CADPAT, used a different and more improved pattern for it's desert version because of scientific test results showing a more open pattern worked for the statistically longer viewing distances in desert environments. Also the fact the USMC uses solid colour vests as a cost saving measure.
Yes.
Still got the best uniforms.
In boot camp I was in the last batch that got the pre-digital cammies. I remember all the sergeants thinking the pattern was decent, but utterly despising with fierce disgust the velcro.
Thanks for this. I use both Marpat and the Tiger stripe in airsoft and they work well in NW Florida boonies.
Airsoft Ghost you use the woodland tiger stripe like in the video??
Telling me they had a badass Tigerstripe pattern in the works, and EVEN HAD IT PROTOTYPED, makes it even worse that it was never chosen as the standard camo of any of the two ground forces focused branches.
Really enjoyed your video! Thank you so much for sharing and posting, very informative. Semper Fi!
Don't call us Corpsman, Corpsman are in the Navy
Yeah, his use of Corpsman was confusing. At first I thought he was referring specifically to Navy Corpsman which I thought was interesting, and the more he said Corpsman I was thinking, why did the Corps have Corpsmen do so much of the testing. It wasn't until the end that I realized that by Corpsmen he didn't mean Navy medics but Marines.
I saw some navy guys wearing marpat a month ago. why is that?
@@pilotpig_ they were most likely "green side" corpmen. Since the Marine Corps doesn't have its own medical personnel, the navy hospital corp provides medical care for both the navy and Marine corps, with green side reffering to the corpmen who are attached to USMC units, and blue side referring to corpmen who serve care for the navy personell. Green side corpmen are authorized to were marpat as they are immbedded with Marine units and therefore have to look the part.
Al least he didn't call US Marines "Soldier" which is a more common problem.
I was going to comment on that if no one else had. Slightly better than Corpsman being called corpse men by POTUS.
Rhodesian brushstroke is an awesome pattern.
You said that Cadpat was first digital camo to be issued on large scale, but t the same time Soviet border guards (around 200k men strong) were issued with digital camo uniforms from around 1982-1983
Was it based on fractals?
I assume you're talking about KLMK, that's not truly digital, that's just step design. CADPAT, which MARPAT is based on is entirely computer generated according to algorithms, just having a vaguely pixel like look doesn't mean a pattern is digital.
Good vid. First I ever heard that Rhodesian brush stroke was considered. Imagine how that would have looked...
It is true that the USMC got permission to use CADPAT as a base for recolour, but they asked permission and didn't steal it. Desert MARPAT is very close to the trial versions of Desert CADPAT as a recolour of CADPAT TW, however the Canadians, who had already done a ton of R&D to develop CADPAT TW found out that with the longer average engagement distances in arid environments, a recalculation of the algorithms was necessary and slightly more open, vertically oriented pattern worked better, the result was CADPAT AR, the USMC only had rights to use the base pattern of CADPAT TW and therefore used two recolourations for their two MARPAT versions, with Coyote Brown being the unifying colour between them.
This is a good example of copying, taking what works and applying the right recolour to match the expected environments, same reason why Japan's recolour of Flecktarn works so well. A bad example of copying is the Army's UCP, they only wanted to look cool and futuristic so chose the worst performing camo in their Natick trials, slapped the bad colours onto the CADPAT design and rushed it out.
Why don’t just make it into a reverse camouflage like the P42 uniform the corp used during WW2, I mean it’s easier
Pockets would be a major issue. Personally I like the WW2 German idea of combat smocks. You have a standard uniform and you issue smocks camouflaged for the specific terrain the unit will be fighting in. Plus, believe it or not, the loose fitting smock actually aids in breaking up a soldier or marine's outline.
@@1337penguinman Not in the Corps yet but I don't think there allowed to use there pockets. I know there not allowed to put there hands in the at least
JKH GAMING I know you’re not supposed to put your hands in the trouser pockets but I think they’re talking about the blouse,sorry if I misunderstood what everyone is talking about
I don't think pockets would be an issue, the blouse pockets aren't like old BDUs, they aren't really designed for a major load. The new web gear systems take care of all that. So a reversible uniform would be possible.
@@1337penguinman Russia has many of those kind of uniforms too.
3:30 haha if this is true it's so petty.
Marine Corp: "No we didn't copy Canada!"
Also the Marine Corp: "Hey Pentagon can you guys get us some CADPAT?"
The fun thing being that the design leader Timothy O'neill was in the Army for 25 years.
That pixel Tiger Vietnam jungle pattern is cool!
Im glad you guys used my pictures of the experimental desert and temperate MARPAT , but would like to correct you the color in the desert that was removed was blue not black , thanks
Corpsman???? That refers to Navy enlisted medical personnel. We're not Corpsman....We're Marines. Please say Marines.
Why are you repeating the same thing that people have said before you? You guys not gonna change the video for this one small mishap
To me MARPAT looks like a digitized variant of Flecktarn.
Qué buen canal para los que nos interesa los uniformes y patrones de camuflaje, siga así
As a future marine I cant wait to wear this uniform, and represent my country. Also this is a very interesting topic and you're doing a great job man, keep it up.
Same
Good luck friend!
Good luck my dude.
These videos are absolutely fascinating. It's amazing how much stupid bureaucratic garbage goes into camouflage.
We were authorized to wear desert marpat in summer, and woodland in winter. Then marines were told we can't roll sleeves anymore. Then the commandant reversed that decision. But NOW the commandant says ONLY woodland camo on base, (despite the fact I was stationed in a desert) with desert pattern being reserved for deployment and field excercises.
So many irrelevant decisions making enlisted marines lives tedious and confusing.
Another excellent video, thanks! Subscribed!
Why it have to be pixels? Is it easier to make? There are not many sharp shapes in nature. I know it blends from distance but wouldnt some original tiger stripes style patern make it better?
Marpat is an identical pattern borrowed from cadpat. They changed colours, added a little usmc logo and printed it. The shapes are all the same. Compare lightest green in cadpat to darkest colour in marpat
Ayyyy, caught the shout out to Guy Cramer. A great mind.
Haha go Canada. My parents were born and raised there but I was born in Philadelphia and raised in Texas. I would love to serve either country!
MARPAT, the only camo that was a worthy replacement for M81 Woodland.
Marpat comes in woodland and dessert, but there's always some salty ass lcpl, gunny, or range personnel rocking the MARPAT "grassland" pattern. What is "grassland" you may ask. When a salty ass devil spends a bit too long in the sun while wearing woodlands and the color fades to the point where they almost look like ACUs. It's not as pale as desert, but not as dark as a fresh woodland blouse, hence why it's "grassland" because it's somewhere in-between the two
@@MarioTheLiopleurodon Interesting
Great video but the voice audio is way too low.
EVERYONE and I do mean EVERYONE that took part in the online survey with a 9:1 ratio picked the tiger stripe overwhelmingly. But CMC chose MarPat. And that’s what we got. Opened a can of worms in the process.
Hi! I know that it is impossible to cover everything and your videos are MUCH appreciated. Surely the Russian digital camo of the 1980's must have had something to do with something. As well what is your take on a square pattern camo if squares do not happen often in nature? My buddy said it is there to messup digital night vision equipment.
So. I live in a temperate woodland. I always wondered why everyone was into wearing coyote brown gear when it ruins their camoflauge.
That was until I saw it on Woodland Marpat. Where it didn't completely ruin the camoflauge and sctuslly complimented it. And it works decently with their desert camo as well. And your telling me this was done on purpose?
I am blown away by how smart that idea was and it really gives me more respect for the Marines as they not only made a functional digital pattern (looking at you, UCP) but specifically trying to avoid a desert storm situation where you see soldiers in desert cammies wearing woodland gear.
Guess all those crayons they eat made them color aware.
6:34
Dude's magazine on the left
Nice
@Rusty Shackleford
Hahaha that is amazing!!
Really enjoying all these videos ! My only complaint is the audio level is very low on all of them
" we want them to be able to see us coming a mile away in our new uniforms" The Marines should've adopted the ACU in that case...
Simple request, can you make a video on the History of the Marine Corps 8 point cover? As a Marine, I don't know the history of it. I assume it was design to look like an older hat design and probably issued sometime around WW2?
The idea of being seen a mile away goes back to Somalia, it’s not the Camouflage pattern not working, but standing out from other branches. With Somalia the Army had already started switching to the tricolor deserts and wore tan boots. The USMC was still issued the chocolate chips and wore black boots. At the beginning the Somalis would not mess with the Marines 1 ROEs were different and the snipers would take that out and the Marines got their nickname the black boots. That’s the idea of having camo that can be seen a mile away so the Marine Corps could be easily identifiable when put with US Army Soldiers and USAF personnel. Personally I think the Army and Marines should be allowed to run with their patterns. With the Army the herder multi cam because that ACU uniform was a train wreck. Standard sailors have no need for camo uniforms just like airmen and definitely shouldn’t have their own pattern. SEALs and small boat/landing craft personnel should have camo. If you work on a ship you should be wearing the blue shirt and boondockers. Air Force if you aren’t a JTAC or a PJ you should probably be wearing coveralls and be on a flight line. That blue blue digital uniform the Navy came up is ridiculous. They are now moving to the USMC style uniform just off on the colors and has USN in the design instead of USMC. To make a long story short the Air Force and Navy never should have come with their own camouflage.
The original boots, before the current coyote brown, were marpat as well. The pattern wore off on the toes and heels and was soon scrapped. I remember the survey on mol and i didnt choose marpat. It looked completely different. It looked way too green. Rumor has it that a gunny in a sniper platoon in pendleton had a watchband that was basically coyote brown but was actually a ralph Lauren color. Another thing they left out in this video is the knee and elbow pad inserts that go into pockets inside of the uniform. We were issued them and nobody used them. Talking to the marines on base now, nobody knows about the pads or why the pockets are inside
The MARPAT ( USMC Utilities) and the ACU ( US Army UCP and OCP MultiCam Uniforms) look good, they really and truly do, but, I Am Prior Service USMC and US Army ( 1987-1998), and, I Am partial to the M-81 BDU in both Woodland Camouflage Pattern and Desert Camouflage Pattern.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🗽🔫
That was great, thanks man! #OohRah
Military: What camo you want.
Everyone: Tiger stripe.
Military: Okay, we will remember to disappoint you.
The soviets had a digital pattern in the 1950s. You can see it on the soldier in the movie Ivan’s Childhood
You should do a video on the coast guard ODU. It’s not really camp, but it would be interesting no doubt
Okay, so, from my observation, there are two kinds of Marines.
The first is just like any other serviceman. Normal, has respect for other branches, joined the Marines for personal/family reasons, or simply because they wanted to join the Marines.
The OTHER type is the "WOOO! HOOAH! SEMPER FI!!!!! WE'RE THE BEST! FUCK ALL THE OTHER BRANCHES! MARINES DO EVERYTHING!"
The second type are the kind that thought they needed to make their OWN pattern, and to then PATENT said pattern. They truly are the most special of snowflakes.
I don't mean this to be disrespectful. I'm just saying I think it's fucking stupid that certain Marines and Marine Higherups feel the need to be so special they go and fuck up the whole military's deal and set off this whole thing where each branch wants their own uniforms. If it wasn't for the Marines wanting their special camo, the Military would've saved hundreds of millions, if not BILLIONS of dollars.
Aesthetic Deluxe MARPAR would have been useful for all branches. The Marines were very selfish to keep it to themselves.
Actually let me correct you on a couple points. First, all Marines are both the first and second type. Second, it’s OORAH not “hOoah” that’s that army shit (no disrespect to my army guys out there). Third, if you think the Marine Corps regularly gets new things you would be so SO incorrect, we get all the hand me downs from the Army and are lucky to get anything relatively new. But that’s why we are the best, we make do with shit
I was one of the Marines that got the opportunity to vote for which pattern to use. I selected the Tiger Stripes. To this day it's still my favorite.
russell28533 you know where you could buy the fabric?
Good video but your master volume level is way too low. I had to turn up my laptop volume all the way up and could still barely hear you.
“Hey can I copy your homework?”
“Sure just change it a bit so it’s not so obvious”
“ok”
Would have liked to see more of the updated Tiger Stripe pattern.
Corpsman are Naval medical personal. The common term for MARPAT is “digi” since it’s a digital pattern.
And if you care to look at other comments for the past three or four weeks you will notice that people have already discussed this topic to death. Why keep bringing it up ?
The idea of needing to distinguish between the branches is pointless, however the Marine Corps (& I’m an Airman) was the only branch that came up with a “digital” camo that was effective in both woodland and desert environments. The army, Air Force and Navy’s respective digital uniforms were in a word terrible. My experience extends to the USAF’s ABU and aside from blending in with a dirty aircraft the uniform was useless with the only advantage over the old BDU / DCU was its not having to be ironed, other than that it was heavy, thick and was very good at retaining heat, all things you don’t want when deploying to the desert. It was universally hated, cost millions to develop and was recently ditched in favor of multi-cam
Does the volume of the video keep getting softer for anyone else?
Yeah, I found myself pressing my headphones against my ears by the end.
I Am Prior Service USMC and US Army, and,I Myself didn't know about any of this Military History. Thanks Again for this education and edification on this Uniform History Information and Intelligence (I2).🇺🇸🗽🦅⚔️🔫
It's ridiculous having different uniforms for different branches. It's like giving away free intel to the enemy. Makes it easier to track movement of individual units and to figure out who the softest target is, and which units to avoid.
This was much more effective than the Army's "Mom's Ugly Couch" pattern.
We should of addopted this patern or moded the acus to a green, brown, and dark black or green color
Can you do the history of the protective combat uniform?
Excellent idea, wear all white camo but green helmet in the snow
The reason the headquarters Marine Corps went with the digital instead of tiger stripe was the ease with which they could copyright the Marpat digital. Even though a wide majority of marines favored the tiger stripe variant.
do a video on Irish dpm (which is NOT to be confused with British dpm which is completely different)...in fact unless you are up close Irish dpm and French central European are almost identical.
@Stephen Donovan 😂😂😂😂
So many memories. Jesus I think I still have boots somewhere.
Urban MARPAT and Tiger stripe were🔥
Marines would then officially cammie when I join in 09 we had both woodland and desert. What love about the Woodlands is that tapered close your waist which if you where's skinny guy like me look great.
a few mistakes but other than that you're done your homework some of it I didn't know myself and retired Master Gunnery Sergeant USMC thanks again for your support of our armed forces
Woodland MARPAT looks pretty sexy.
PLEASE do Russian camo next! Surpat would be a good one to do next! My profile pic is the surpat pattern.
to do russian camo would take 4-5-6 episodes.
can you do Soviet cold war camos thanks
Now if only I could get video on the US Navy type 3 pattern, AKA Guacs/tactical avocado.
Seems like every time they do trials to find out which uniform is the most effective and favored by troops the higher up leadership vetos it for the "prettier option".
'93-97 we wore cadillacs and woodland. (3rd Batt.1st Mar. Div.) Should've stayed in longer.😉
I know I’m four years late to the conversation, but I always thought it was weird as a US Army veteran myself that every branch of the US military almost looks like different military’s themselves. I wonder why we don’t all go to one uniform combat uniform?
I was in the Marines and I wouldnt want to be called soldier/airman/sailor plus if they had to decide the government back then would make us all wear UCP good thing they didnt make us all wear that. and they had the issue of branch identification with woodland and tricolor.
the tigerstripe is badass
1:55 So is the camo supposed to make you seamless or stand out?
Great again man !
A Corpsman is a US Navy medic. The individual ‘soldier’ in the USMC is referred to simply as a Marine
I am confused what is the difference between MCCUU and MARPAT?
Nice video I like that