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d. These new designs also lend themselves to
border lines can vary as much as 2 inches from the
standard pattern without causing loss of effectiveness.
touchup painting with better results than are now
b. The camouflage pattern consists of wavy
obtainable from touchup of the current OD vehicles.
irregular patches of color applied to the vehicle.
Slight mismatches in color will not be as noticeable as
The colors used for the patterns have been selected
they are on a solid-colored vehicle except from very
from the standard camouflage colors as shown in figure
close inspection. Likewise, minor abrasions and scaling
The standard colors are:
of surfaces will be equally inconspicuous.
Abbreviation
Color
Advantages. a. The new system of pattern
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W
White
painting has the following major advantages:
DS
Desert sand
(1) Provides ground and air observation in the
S
Sand
target acquisition role.
EY
Earth yellow
(2) Can be applied by troops with minimum
ER
Earth red
training, effort and equipment.
FD
Field drab
(3) Has effectiveness under combat conditions,
EB
Earth brown
but also presents a good military appearance in garrison.
OD
Olive drab
(4)
Uses
colors
from
the
standard
LG
Light green
camouflage chart (fig. 3-1) and thus avoids color mixing
DG
Dark green
or tinting in the field to obtain the specified color. TB 43-
FG
Forest green
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BL,
Black
(5) Uses standard camouflage paints identifiable
by National stock number (NSN) or Military Specification
c. The patterns use only four of these colors, for any
Number.
geographic or climatic conditions. The only exception-
(6)
Combines
effectively
with
other
winter arctic, which is solid white. When changing from
camouflage techniques such as use of natural foliage.
one geographic or climatic condition to another, the
(7) Permits the changing of one or two colors to
shape of the pattern itself does not change; only one or
adapt it to seasonal and geographic changes (and avoids
two of the colors that make up the pattern change.
the need to completely repaint the vehicle for such
changes).
for various seasons and climatic regions. The first and
(8) Permits easy retouching of the paint without
second colors each cover about 45 per cent of the
causing mottling or color mismatches.
vehicle; the third color covers 5 per cent of the vehicle;
(9) Does not demand precise execution of the
the fourth color, normally black, covers the remaining 5
line and shape of the individual patterns; their
per cent. The location numbers 1, 2, and 3 identify the
first three colors, and are used in the pattern designs to
show what color goes where on the vehicle.
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