Lawmakers Want Army to Re-Dye Old Camouflage Uniforms With New Pattern

Well, as stupid as it sounds at first look, it may be better than just throwing them all away. Way back in the late 70’s when the Marines adopted the leftover ERDL pattern Vietnam era utilities for daily wear, some were green dominant, some were brown dominant. I had only seen the greener ones in country in I Corps and didn’t know the browner ones were for places like the Central Highlands. I didn’t like them so I took some Rit dark green dye and dyed each new pair of brown ones I had to buy. The khaki of the pattern became the lighter green of the green dominant version and looked so much like the green ones that no one ever asked about them.
If for nothing else, dying all those Army & Air Force gray cammies with a green or coyote industrial dye would extend their useful camouflage life for quite a while.

That plus find the retired idiot general who approved that stupid gray pattern and reduce him to private working in the laundry dyeing the cammies.

Did they ever consider trying a color that blends with what nature put there ? What a huge waste of money to keep changing these things .

This was originally mentioned when the Army announced that the "New" OCP pattern would be adopted. The plan was for all UCP OCIE to be dyed in Coyote. Considering the cost and lifespan of these items, especially in the RC, I thought it could have merit. As usual, the devil is in the details and outside of the original mention, have never heard or seen mention of that again.