Hi all,
I have seen it myself yesterday. There were people wearing it and
photos of the demo were taken. I dun have the photos myself and I
doubt I can upload it yet if I have them but I can roughly describe
it. There are less buttons and more velcro lol. But still will have
some buttons and it looks exactly like the US Army Woodland
MARPAT.
Something like this:
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I'm not sure if my unit will be receiving any urban versions but I
will get 4 sets of uniform. All NSFs ORDing after Jan 09 in my unit
will have the new uniform, 1 to 1 exchange. Was briefed today to
register my sizes on the online emart. The current black boots will
have to go too and there will be new ones. Ranks, vocation and
formation badges will be sewn on when I receive it next year Jan.
By then my unit will be wearing the new uniforms already. Of cos
the purchases will be made using a special account with special
emart credits. You know where the $$$ come from.
I'm not sure if there will be the grey version for FIBUA. I haven
seen it anywhere yet. Maybe we won't even have it. I doubt if its
even practical for you to change into the urban uniform inside the
jungle and then come out to fight urban warfare lol. It would mean
carrying more uniforms. Oh yea thats why the new field pack is
bigger. Anyway coming out from the jungle wearing the woodland
MARPAT into urban environment will also tell everyone, "Hey I'm
here shoot me!!!"
If we indeed have the 2 versions, I can imagine new ways to tekan
recruits. Ask u to change to woodland then to urban. Ask u to go up
to ur bunk to take ur newly ziplocked urban uniform to pack into
field pack. And u will receive another set of urban LBV and field
pack? Lol. $$$
