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http://www.military.com/daily-news/...flage-uniforms.html?comp=7000023317828&rank=1
It seems the only ones that received praise from the GAO were the Marines
It goes on to say
Way to go Marines!
It seems the only ones that received praise from the GAO were the Marines
Marines still wear the Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform the service started fielding in June 2002. The Corps spent $319,000 to develop the MCCCU uniform -- significantly less than the Army and Air Force, which spent $3.2 million on the ACU and $3.1 million on the ABU respectively.
All four services universally wore the Army Battle Dress and Desert Camouflage patterns before the Corps introduced their own pattern and branded the Corps symbol into it. The Corps' initiative left Army, Air Force, and later Navy leaders scrambling to provide their troops service-specific camouflage patterns.
The report did not address the Navy's blue working uniform, which is referred to by troops as "aquaflage."
It goes on to say
The GAO commended the Marine Corps for using "credible, reliable, and timely data" to choose their camouflage pattern and implementing it "using clear policies and procedures." The Army and Air Force failed to do the same when it developed the ACU and ABU causing their uniforms to "not meet mission requirements" and forced the services to replace them.
Way to go Marines!