What are we up to now militarily?

The military has various types of camo and colors. We even have blue camo. They change for reasons I’m not sure of, though. Sometimes they change simply because they feel it’s time for a new change. We got brand new uniforms a few years ago because the ones they were replacing were outdated. They looked old fashioned.

Someone with a paint factory sold a lot of paint to someone at the Pentagon and now they have to use it up.

If it was Navy equipment, they are lost (since they should be in a ship instead).

If it was Army equipment, no one knows why its there but it probably has to do with a hand receipt foul up.

If it was Marine equipment, they were sent on a mission after being told it may be dangerous (probably not).

If it was Coast Guard equipment….. huh?

If it was Air Force equipment, they probably had a team of scientists tell them that the new camo design was good for morale and promoted more efficient productivity.

If it was National Guard equipment, it will probably be left on the side of the road somewhere.

It was ██████ intended for ████.

Seriously, the armed forces have fashions, too.

As @CWOTUS points out there is a fashion…

I think the most important thing is being distinguishable from A. Enemy, and B. Friendlies, and C. earlier eras. It is like a club.

Probably just National Guard or Reserve vehicles. Then again, it could be preparation for [ redacted ] with [ redacted ].

They may be brand new vehicles and haven’t yet been camouflaged. They all are green I think, when factory new. I’ve seen them with mixed and matched parts, some parts tan and the rest woodland. Really after a day in field operations they all tend to look the same no matter what color they started with.

Are sure it’s not MultiCam they are wearing?” It kind of looks like the old olive drab, maybe it looks like that from a distance. The Army apparently adopted the new MuliCam uniforms in 2010 and and will supposedly be replacing the Universal Camouflage Pattern, which was lighter, over time.

Actually, we are preparing to invade Canada because our strategic reserves of maple syrup and hockey players have been severely depleted over the years and have become dangerously low.

Sorry, I was unclear on this. What I meant was they were camouflaged in a woodland pattern (OD, brown, green) and not a desert (tan, brown, rust). I have seen three separate groups of vehicles (I hesitate to say “Convoys” because I am not sure how many it takes to be considered one). They were Hummers, tankers, 6-wheeled trucks with a canvas cover, etc. This is a recent phenomena, up to this point everything on the road has been the desert camo for several years now..

The different colors have nothing more to do with anything other than to ‘blend.’ It is called camouflage for a reason. In combat, you would not desire the tan tank in the forest or the green tank in surroundings that are brown. Don’t over think it….It’s just to blend.

I understand blends and the reasoning behind the use of camo but what I am trying to get at is that the army has changed back from the desert camo to the woodland camo on thier vehicles and had done it in a relatively short timeframe.
I just remember that before we started our mid-east war, you had the darker camo on all the vehicles, then you would see groups with some vehicles desert and others wooded. Within a short time period it was almost exclusively desert and now it appears that we have completely done away with the desert.
I realize that three groups of vehicles in a three week time period may not be a representative sample and I may be reading more into it than is justified but, in my opinion, it is something to think about when you wonder what our next step is to, lets say, jump start our national economy. Or whatever.

Some equipment would be designated to remain stateside long enough to use the green colors and units that are going to the mid east will be painted for that area. Much of this work is done in urban settings so it appears it isn’t fooling anyone while there.