As of Oct. 1, all soldiers are required to possess and wear the green-and-brown Operational Camouflage Pattern uniform, or OCP. The UCP uniform, introduced in 2004, long faced criticism for its ...

This can continue until Oct. 1, 2018, the wear-out date for both OEF-CP and UCP uniforms, tan T-shirts and tan boots. The service adopted OCP after an exhaustive, four-year camouflage-improvement ...

The Army has yet to incorporate OCP with its organizational clothing and individual equipment, so most soldiers will be using wet- and cold-weather gear designed to match grey-green UCP.

Answer: Yes. Soldiers are permitted to sew the name tape, U.S. Army tape, rank, and all authorized badges on all camouflage patterns of the combat uniform, UCP, OEF-CP, and OCP. If worn ...

The Army has set a wear-out date of Oct. 1, 2019, for the gray-green Universal Camouflage Pattern, and soldiers can wear either the new OCP, UCP and deployment-issue Multi-Cam in garrison until then.

It turned out that UCP was better at blending in with grandma ... Odierno let on that the branch was moving ahead with adopting OCP, and that units deploying to combat zones were already being ...

What is unique about the UCP is that black is omitted from the uniform ... The irony here is that the OCP was actually developed as part of the Object Force Warrior program in 2002.

So, after over more than a decade of use, UCP gets replaced by its more expensive and, at least in Afghanistan, much more effective competitor, MultiCam, or, to be precise, a variant of MultiCam ...