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It replaced the Battle Dress Uniform, which the Marine Corps had shared with the Navy, Army and Air Force. However, both the MCCUU, and its distinctive camouflage pattern, MARPAT , are exclusive to the Marine Corps, which holds the patents to their design. [ 3 ]
The Battle Dress Uniform (BDU) is a ... to differentiate themselves from each other has resulted in new patterns for uniforms. The U.S. Marine Corps was the first ...
An illustration of U.S. Marines in various uniform setups. From left to right: A U.S. Marine in a Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform with full combat load c. late 2003, a U.S. Marine in a (full) blue dress uniform, a U.S. Marine officer in a service uniform, and a U.S. Marine general in an evening dress uniform.
MARPAT (short for Marine pattern) [3] is a multi-scale camouflage pattern in use with the United States Marine Corps, designed in 2001 and introduced from late 2002 to early 2005 with the Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform (MCCUU), which replaced the Camouflage Utility Uniform.
U.S. Marine Corps: MARPAT pattern, used for the Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform (MCCUU) in two variants, woodland and desert. The USMC's MARPAT pattern was the first digitalized (pixelated) pattern in the U.S. military, unveiled in mid-2001. [2] [3] [4] It was first available in January 2002 and was mandatory by late 2004. [5] [6] 2002 U.S ...
German Bundeswehr: [14] tropical battle dress uniform for desert and semi-arid regions (army and air force) was also in use in the Danish army until they changed to M/01 Canadian Disruptive Pattern (CADPAT) Digital: 2002: Canada; four operational variants (Temperate Woodland operational variant shown) [15] Camouflage Central-Europe: Woodland: 1994
Field jacket and trousers for the lizard pattern battle dress uniform. The camouflage pattern was introduced in 1947 and used to until the 1980s. The first French battledress was introduced in 1945 and was made of a heavy cotton duck, sometimes taken from old German stocks and based on the same design as the British 1937 pattern.
An experimental urban camouflage Battle Dress Uniform was developed and used during the Urban Warrior exercises of 1999. The pattern, sometimes called T-pattern or T-block, consists of three gray tones arranged in a geometric pattern, intended as a 'pattern breaker' to make Marine troops harder to locate when in such environments.