It's almost time to say goodbye to the tiger stripe. The U.S. Air Force is approaching its sunset date for the Airman Battle Uniform, known as the ABU, in favor of the Army's Operational ...

The Air Force's Airman Battle Uniform is getting its official send-off. On Thursday, airmen will be required to retire their old "Tiger Stripe" camouflage for good and switch to the Operational ...

In a few short months, the Air Force will say goodbye to one of its stranger fashion choices: the tiger stripe-patterned Airman Battle Uniform (ABU), which was the branch’s official uniform from ...

The Air Force, meanwhile, was finding that its new gray-blue “tiger stripe” pattern, developed for another $3.2 million, didn’t work in Afghanistan either and switched to using the Army’s MultiCam.

(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Iman Broady-Chin) Tiger stripe’s roots are mildly ambiguous, but the US military’s unofficial adoption of the pattern came about during the Vietnam War ...