There will be none of the olive drab color so familiar to U.S. Army soldiers and veterans when that branch’s new version of Pelicans in Progress statue in downtown Pensacola debuts just in time ...

The traditions of the United States ... the Army introduced a staggering variety of rank, branch and specialist insignia in either bright colors for full dress and drab or bronze colors for ...

Army posts in Texas, Wyoming, Maryland, Illinois and New York, soldiers for the last year have worn a new, experimental uniform. Instead of the olive drab standard ... Contact us at letters@ ...

"Olive drab" has long been synonymous with military service. In the early days of American history, troops donned more formal attire in stunning blues, greys, gold buttons and blood stripes.

It stands for olive drab ... color of the utility uniform of all branches of service from 1952 until 1989. The designation of OG-107, and a darker shade, referred to as OG-105, came from the Army ...

and the Quartermaster's Department has published an advertisement for bids on 535,000 yards of the olive drab cloth selected. It was learned yesterday that the cloth would cost not much less than ...

The U.S. Army is an institution steeped in tradition and respect for those that have come before. Soldiers are often required to memorize their unit’s history and the names that have brought ...

British planes were painted Dark Earth, Dark Green, and Night — a very dark black-blue color. For U.S. Army planes, olive drab was applied to the top half, while the bottom received flat gray ...

While the Pentagon buys all sorts of rough-and-tough combat vehicles for the United States military ... because the car was sprayed in Army-spec olive drab, the COLOR field on this tag is blank).

Here's how the Willys MB got its original color. Beginning in World War I, all the vehicles commissioned by the U.S. military were to be painted "olive drab." While it's often confused with olive ...