The Asia Times in an article on the training program wrote: I wonder if they think it will be okay when these guys come home and something goes wrong like, say, a case of post traumatic stress syndrome. The Marines claim the training will not only help their troops fight enemy forces, but distinguish them from "friendlies."Īpparently it will also teach our troops that some human beings are actually not human beings at all, but big game. Ben Alicea, a senior instructor with Mobile Training Cadre 1, Advanced Infantry Training Company, School of Infantry East explained on the Marine web site. “Combat Hunter is designed to increase the lethality of a unit during operations through enhanced observation, profiling and tracking skills,” Gunnery Sgt. The training program has been in development since 2006.Ī Marine Corps press release states, “'Always the hunter, never the hunted.' That’s the tagline for a new Marine program, Combat Hunter, designed to teach Marines how to better observe, communicate, and act in their effort to 'find, fix,and finish' the enemy."Ĭombat Hunter’s methods, says the press release, are based on three criteria-identifying skills that will make Marines more efficient “hunters” in all environments (especially urban), examining and employing the skills used by individuals who have lived in disadvantaged areas of large cities, and developing training programs from skills identified during experimentation. They spread their knowledge among their troops. Already nearly a thousand Marines, mostly squad leaders, have been trained. What a noble thought.Īnd they're training those under their command to do just that. Which came first is hard to pin down as all where used at the same time in different areas.The Marines have apparently decided that fighting insurgents in Iraq is akin to hunting big game. Calling it first pattern is reasonable, there are other patterns of camo made by different manufacturers at least one screen printed on to complete shirts, another manufacturer used printed cloth to make shirts, this cloth was imported and is not the Rhodesian pattern, more a woodland style. Rhodesia had a shortage of bais edging so the neck line and sleeves would just be hemmed in tee shirt material. Screen printing a completely assembled khaki tee shirt where available right to the early 80s, these where made in Rhodesia, the variations come about by missing a screen in the process or sometimes turning a screen. I am on the extreme right wearing the hand screened t shirt which I consider the first pattern print unless corrected by a deeper knowledge here.Īlso in the background with the radio I put him wearing an Arid cap. Many many years ago I did a photo shoot of Rhodesian camouflage items in my collection. he was a bit later 1970s in Bulawayo and Vic Falls, by then the sticks only wore Rhodesian Police Issue Cammo, all private purchase foreign camo was binned. Spoke to a member of Black Group on Friday. If anyone has any photos of the items in isolation, please post them so we can get a better shot of this very obscure Rhodesian pattern. This is the only thread I've ever seen it discussed in detail: It looks very Portuguese, but the pattern shape is very different. The photo has another interesting BSAP test pattern that later became the Zimbabwe vertical lizard pattern. I saw this jacket in this photo of PATU "Black Group" in 1968 (from ) This is the same print used in the 2-lower pocket version Kia kaha posted. The prints are fairly inconsistent in terms of color order, and in one case print quality, though I've noticed that the pattern shapes on this first pattern are distinct from the common pattern. I also have several early pattern combat jackets. It is amazingly hard to photograph since the yellow-green is not very different from the base khaki color of the fabric.īased on the pattern shapes, jacket cut, and tag (196_, with the last digit blank I have an early jacket with the same style of tag but with the last digit filled in by hand), I believe the arid version was produced right when the standard, common version of the pattern was made. I actually own an "arid season" jacket as described in the first post.
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