New MultiCam ACUs for Deployed Soldiers

This week the Army News Service announced that soldiers heading to Afghanistan in July will be issued MultiCam ACUs along with Mountain Combat boots and MultiCam MOLLE.

The decision came after the Universal Camouflage Pattern, or UCP, didn’t conceal soldiers in all of Afghanistan’s different terrains, according to the news service.

“Afghanistan is a unique camouflage challenge because it’s such a terrain-diverse country,” Col. William E. Cole told the Army News Service. “Troops like the fact that it helps them blend in to different terrain types.”

If you’re not familiar with MultiCam, it’s a pattern that was specifically designed for combat in the Middle East regions with multiple terrains (think desert plus mountains). By using a varied pattern that focuses on a blending effect, it takes on surrounding colors easily.

“We are proud to help protect our forces with camouflage that has been validated in labs, user tests and in combat,” reads a statement about the Afghanistan deployment on the MultiCam website. “We think of camouflage as a key survivability tool, often as critical as armor or mobility.”

What are the benefits of MultiCam compared to other camo patterns? The video below says it all.

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(Images via MultiCam.com)