The Army selected the Operation Camouflage Pattern -- a blend of browns, greens and tans -- to replace the older UCP pattern in 2014 as a result of the service's exhaustive camouflage study.

Since 2001 both the army and marines adopted new, digital camouflage pattern field uniforms. But in Afghanistan U.S. soldiers noted that the marine digital uniforms (called MARPAT, for Marine Pattern) ...

Soldiers will now be required to wear the Operational Camouflage Pattern, which includes the blacks and browns missing from the old UCP.

The camo maker also argues that at the end of the day, the whole process is skewed in such a way that it's likely the Army will pull a UCP and pick an ineffective pattern for subjective reasons.

The camouflage pattern will not stand alone among coming changes to the Army Combat Uniform. Joining the camo: a new belt, undershirt and boots. The new personal gear, expected to roll out this ...

The OCP replaces the UCP, or Universal Camouflage Pattern, a pixelated design the Army has been using since 2004. Why the change? In short, the current design is un -camouflaging soldiers.

UCP, first fielded in 2005, generated numerous complaints. While it was intended to be "universal," the pattern was criticized by troops who felt they stood out in most environs (besides a gravel ...

But their organizational clothing and individual equipment, or OCIE, such as their wet-weather gear and their Extended Cold Weather Clothing System sport the Universal Camouflage Pattern, or UCP.

This most recent decision, which will leave the UCP in place for the foreseeable future, occurs against the broader backdrop of camouflage proliferation across the services. Since 2002, patterns ...

This brings to an end the army’s long, costly use of its “universal” camouflage pattern (UCP), which was designed to work anywhere but which soldiers complain works nowhere.

The Army now is busy gauging an array of new camo looks to likely replace UCP, an effort that will continue into this autumn.