Army’s Own Test Punks UCP

Matt Cox is reporting at ArmyTimes.com that the Army’s Natick labs performed a two-year study in 2007 that ranked UCP as the least effective universal camo pattern of the five patterns they tested. He FOIA’d the government for the Natick’s Photosimulation Camouflage Detection Test report and got it after PEO Soldier refused to provided it.

While it’s great programmatic drama, I have to wonder what would happen if someone at PEO Soldier actually just came out and admitted that they chose the best camo pattern that branded soldiers from the other services while providing adequate camouflage without going broke.