The ABU's "tiger stripe" pattern was supposed to pay homage to camouflage used during the Vietnam War, according to the Post. But early iterations "looked slightly off" from one uniform to the ...

Naturally the Air Force wanted in on that action, and set about to make its own mark on the camouflage world. It's first choice? A Vietnam-era blue tiger-stripe pattern. (You know, to blend in ...

The ABU's "tiger stripe" pattern was supposed to pay homage to camouflage used during the Vietnam War, according to the Post. But early iterations "looked slightly off" from one uniform to the ...

It was a ‘tiger stripe’ pattern, a throwback to camouflage used in the Vietnam War. But it was not well-suited to Afghanistan.” The uniforms “were not designed to hide anybody. They were d ...

This means it’s the end of the line for the Universal Camouflage Pattern ... Command Vietnam's Studies and Observation Group (MACV-SOG) often wore private-purchase "tiger stripe" camouflage ...

It was a "tiger stripe" pattern, a throwback to camouflage used in the Vietnam War. But it was not well-suited to Afghanistan. “They were not designed to hide anybody. They were designed to look ...

(Which is, in fact, the opposite of camouflage.) So just as the United States was gearing up for war in Iraq, the Air Force selected a new tiger stripe pattern in blue and gray made of a material ...

UPDATE: This week the Army officially chose Operation Camouflage Pattern ... to go with a tiger stripe, a choice that has been openly mocked for having its roots in the Vietnam War.

Iman Broady-Chin) Tiger stripe ... of the pattern came about during the Vietnam War, where South Vietnamese forces were already wearing uniforms emblazoned with the unique camouflage.