who knows, but the shoulder pockets are good when you have your armor on

Yeah, the desginers took that into consideration, the place the pockets differently, to provide more comfort n stuff for the troops who will use it, that was a good call.

One of those inventions where the designer took 200 years of learned lessons and applied them.

Thats what I heard, I think they took a lot of troop input and put it into consideration for the design and making for the new combat uniforms

Originally Posted by Sukio

Thats what I heard, I think they took a lot of troop input and put it into consideration for the design and making for the new combat uniforms

Who better to ask than the guy who's gonna wear it??

Yea, the only other example I know of like it , is the Isreali Merkava Tank, were tankers actaully had input on the design.

In my opinion, always ask the user before presenting him new gear or equitment. But, then agian, I dont know much about the usage tanks, or body armor and combat gear!

And , who knows, what, years from now, what the U.S. Army will use to maybe one day in the far future to replace the ACU...

Originally Posted by Sukio

Yea, the only other example I know of like it , is the Isreali Merkava Tank, were tankers actaully had input on the design.

In my opinion, always ask the user before presenting him new gear or equitment. But, then agian, I dont know much about the usage tanks, or body armor and combat gear!

And , who knows, what, years from now, what the U.S. Army will use to maybe one day in the far future to replace the ACU...

Who knows...........fiber optic camo, could be anything.

Ok, comparison shots...
DCUs:

ACUs:

Effectiveness of DCUs (Here comes the Cav!):

ACUs:

Effectiveness of ACUs (Authentic Iraqi Enviroment):


P.S. THe picture of the guy in ACUs, where everything is ACU is from Kosovo. Anyone else think it's weeird that guys in Kosovo have all of their stuff new, while guys in Iraq are >STILL< wearing BDU stuff?

Yea, why Kosovo?

Probably some logistical issue.