The U.S. Army is rolling out new Army Combat Uniforms (ACUs) — and from a fashion perspective, the men and women who serve will look like a mess.
The new ACU features a redesigned pattern, called the Operational Camouflage Pattern (OCP), that doesn’t match current uniform patterns, and soldiers will be slowly transitioning to the new look over the next few years. That means Army soldiers will be mixing the old with the new.
“Soldiers are authorized to mix and match T-shirts, belts and boots,” the Army said. The new look is based on Crye Precision’s MultiCam pattern that was developed over a decade ago and has been used on a limited basis by soldiers deploying to combat zones overseas.
