The Worst Camouflage Patterns

[IndigoK]

The old navy blue camo also melted when exposed to extreme heat. Which was extremely likely since one of the biggest dangers on a ship is fire.

[RustyShacklefordIII]

Clearly the Belgians are try to infiltrate our 1990s Taco Bells to get the secret recipe for Fire sauce.

[heroicxidiot]

you know, having a shitty camo that sticks out like a sore thumb is great for the navy instead of blending with the thing that you can see thousands of miles of

[josephstaggs]

I actually dig the navy blueberries. Not saying theyre practical, especially on the water, but i like the aesthetics.

[ElTejon]

Belgian camo=blends in well with war crimes in the Congo.

[HoneyLaw]

Yemen Police got that yabba dabba doo camo pattern.

[loganbaileysfunwithtrains]

Belgian jigsaw was designed to counter soviet night vision, the brighter colors make it difficult to capture full images on old 1st and 2nd Gen night vision, same reason the Swiss wear alpenflague a red dominate camo. It was to counter act very old red phosphorus night vision being experimented with by the Germans and the US during WW2
The navy work uniform was just for looks, and the Army UCP was theorized as being a universal camo that relied on shadow patterns to be effective. Of course it spent its career in the desert where there’s hardly any shade and shadows to work with its alleged concealment.

[mxrob]

The navy blueberries turn orange in salt water...or that's what I told my marines anyway.

[EdgeZXY]

It's crazy how well the Belgian Jigsaw pattern works despite the colors. Somehow the colors blend together to give a natural color. It literally looks like tree bark at a relatively close distance.

[craigw]

Thank you. Thank you. THANK YOU, for including the "Grandma's couch" camo and the photo. Still don't know WTF the Army was thinking. Wish I could have kept the BDUs my whole career

[WillRennar]

I beg to differ. Navy Camo deserved the top spot for the very reason you mentioned:
The only people it would be camouflaging you from are *_people trying to save your life._*

I am _so_ glad I got out before that stuff became a thing...

[dudeman]

To defend the Blueberries, even with the modern Type 3's, or Guacamoles. It doesn't matter what you're wearing if/when you fall in the ocean. It'll be hard to find you either way.
Even with the life vests that have UV dye that comes out when submerged. It's still hard to spot even that

Plus, I mean, when underway, you're wearing coveralls or the 2 piece things now. Which are usually Navy Blue, red, or Khaki. (The color depends on job, rank, and if the ship's crew is still using coveralls or not)

[gideonhorwitz]

0:43 yeah cause being able to blend in the water is just what you want when you have a man overboard

[MrWilson]

The Belgians should add a pair of JNCOs to complete the 90s drip

[gardnert]

I will never forget being in OSUT in Benning and being one of the first training companies to be issued UCP. We were out in a big grassy clearing doing some squad maneuver drills. Some of us were doing low crawl/high crawl movements in the grass, others were well inside the tree line (pine forest, so not a lot of undergrowth). Every single one of us looked like we had a highlighter on us. You could see everyone, as if we were wearing white. Eventually, our uniforms picked up the color of the sand from the inside of the BN track and ended up a weird poopy yellow. Utterly ridiculous.

[charlesedouardjeankevin]

Belgian Jigsaw is actually very effective ! Was initially designed to operate in dense and wet forests, but it also reveals itself pretty good in autumns environments or burned drylands in summer. It can look flashy in « neutral » coloured areas, but the point that makes the whole thing work is not the colors themselves, but rather how they can trick the eye melted together and with surroundings.

[kankan]

Ok I get the roast, but to be fair, the Jigsaw actually performs quite well in the european temperate climate zone.

[ColeZmijski]

I don't care if they were impractical, I loved the blueberries. How they look, at least.

[jackturner]

Navy blueberries were actually designed to hide accidental paint stains: gray is the dominant color of ships, and the secondary color on the uniform was the same shade of gray. The blue colors were the same color as enlisted dungarees, which were worn prior to blueberries uniform. Personally, I'm just glad the Navy now uses NWU-Type 3 exclusively; it's a much better looking uniform.

[tonyparete]

Every Marine when he opens a box of crayolas: BEST CAMMO PATTERN EVER!"