"Olive drab" has long been synonymous with military service ... horses as the primary mode of combat transportation, their colors needed to become analogous with their environment and the troops ...

S. 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 since War I, the color was a ...

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 ...

Unfortunately, the Aussies happened to select the color nearest and dearest to America’s military, olive drab — the patriotic color of the United States. Olive drab wasn’t a ...

the same olive drab color used on the Italian Army (as well as US Army) helicopters. No other insignia or marking has been applied to the aircraft. Externally, no other differences can be noticed ...

The U.S. Army is an institution steeped in tradition ... as images surfaced of the olive-drab beret that will reportedly be issued to soldiers assigned to the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade ...

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 ...

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 ...