Military combat uniforms have two purposes: to camouflage soldiers, and to hold together in rugged conditions. It stands to reason that there's only one "best" pattern, and one best stitching and ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: MARPAT serves two purposes. First, to camouflage the user. For comparison, the MARPAT pattern has a lower infrared signature than standard Navy-pattern camouflage. The ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The U.S. Marines’ combat camo, MARPAT, blends the wearer to his surroundings through the use of pixilated fractals, essentially rectangular pixels, which camouflages the ...

When the Marine Corps selected a digital pattern for its combat uniform in 2002, the U.S. military as a whole seemed to fracture, with each branch wandering aimlessly in a bizarre search for sartorial ...

Author Robert Billard argues that the Marine Corps should replace its MARPAT digital camouflage with a single-color coyote brown or olive drab uniform—simpler, cheaper, and adaptable across ...