From:	Starrngr@***.com Starrngr@***.com
Subject:	the Fwd that came through as an attachment...
Date:	Mon, 6 Sep 1999 15:21:45 EDT

Mea Culpa.... I was the person Dvixen was reffering too... and here was the
post I was trying to share with everyone about it all....

Well folks, I happened to ask a friend of mine who was stationed over in
Bosnia too recently for his own comfort about the Urban stuff, and this is
what he sent back to me. Pay particular attention to the last para. Given
what he says about it, they would NOT issue anything other than woodland,
since it works almost as well in an urban environment...

In a message dated 9/2/99 7:31:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time, kencyr@*****.com
writes:

> ya was there. not happily either.... something about 2
> world wars being started there as well as a deep
> abiding dislike of folks that wipe each other
> out...just for the fun of it. not very sensible folks
> over there.
> unfortunately we didn't get urbans issued to us -
> would have made too much sense. the only ones that get
> them issued on a regular basis are the SRT guys
> (Special Reaction Teams - SWAT). I managed to snooker
> out a std urban floppy hat outta those guys though.
> but I can aswer the second part a bit better: there
> are 2 patterns. The first (standard) is mid-tone grey,
> black and bright white, the second (subdued) is better
> in that the colors are "faded" - there are 2 patterns
> of the grey and a dirty white as well as the black.
> IIRC there is a third, but that is a regular plain
> grey (think of sidewalks)all over.
>
> as a side note, the urbans and the regular cammies are
> just as effective at night - some study or other
> (forget the name) found out that the browns actually
> are more effective in twilight/night conditions.
> looking for some?