Related: New Army camouflage uniform hits stores ... Instead, soldiers were issued basic olive green (OG) shade 107 cotton uniforms. Just as helmets had been painted in World War I to break ...

The camouflage helmet and shelters issued in the ... saw limited use in the Army, which prefered the solid olive-green "boonie suit." Other unofficial patterns used in Vietnam included black ...

Soldiers started wearing the light green, dark green, brown and black pattern, called temperate woodland, in 1997-98, first on their helmets ... military for the development and evaluation of ...