URBAN WARRIOR 1999 and a very limited number
of uniforms were issues to them. Most of the uni-
forms delivered featured the cotton U.S.MARINES
branch tape above the left breast pocket and some
of them had also USMC EGA stamp on the left breast
pocket, applied individually. The foreigners removed
the branch tapes or sharpie'd the U.S. letters. No
nametapes were used the exercises.
Ultimately, the T-Pattern was never adopted and
become a scarce and highly valuable modern cam-
ouflage collectors' item. Some of the sources say,
that camouflage performance was much lower than
expected and the distances between shapes in the
pattern didn't provide effective concealment on dif-
ferent distances. Unfortunately, there is no official
report available anywhere at this moment to confirm
that. Fact is, the idea of urban camouflage pattern
was forgotten for couple of years. It resurfaced back
in the 2001 when USMC trialed new digital cam-
ouflage pattern, later adopted as MARPAT. Initially,
woodland, desert and urban variant were tested but
only first two were later adopted. Again, the urban
MARPAT became a highly sought collector's item.
Weird
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