the romsn had brightly red tunics and bright armor (for about the first day) in the civil war w ehad a lot of gray and blue. so did it really take that long to start using camo or what?
2006-09-07 10:28:01 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
since the beginning of time man has used camouflage to hunt with. It has also been used in war for thousands of years. The Roman armies were so powerful and large, they used a different style warfare. Like the Russians and English of old the massed troops in lines and pickets to fight. The American Indian were great at camouflage, and the U.S. used it against the Brits during the Revolution.
2006-09-07 10:39:58 · answer #1 · answered by David 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the truly first Camo - used in a large scale - was created by the Germans During Warld War Two. The US Marine Corps introduced a similar style, but rejected it due to the high casualties on Iwo Jima. In 1965 I believe, is when the BDU was designed, and initials tests, etc. began. They've since moved on to ACUPAT for the US Army, and MARPAT for the MArine Corps. Both are different. Digital Square Pixels for close up blending in (Cities, etc), but they turn into organic shapes from afar.
2006-09-07 17:47:03 · answer #2 · answered by ansem7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Camo doesn't really work well in hand to hand combat, but the British Isle would paint themselves purple and of course green clothing was in to mask their numbers. This changed with armor. Ninjas wore black clothing in Japan to hide in the shadows.
As the range of weapons got greater, browns, greys, blacks and greens became popular, but the general colors were generally not mixed for most of the forces. In the U.S. army, most things were olive green (except for snipers which started wearing hand made camoflauge in WWI). I think the marines started to wear their swamp camaflauge clothing late in the Vietnam war.
2006-09-07 17:44:17 · answer #3 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope--check your Civil War history. Union army had a camo green uniform for snipers. (Brighter green than were used to, but it worked fine where it was being used. It wasn't, however, multi-shades of green if that's what you meant specifically.)
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2006-09-07 18:18:16 · answer #4 · answered by Pepper 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And then we had Osama Bin Laden wearing jungle camis in some of his early videos. Hey...he lives in a desert. I suggest that if any of our troops see a green bush in Afghanistan...they shoot it quick.
2006-09-07 20:40:33 · answer #5 · answered by kathy_is_a_nurse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it started when early man rolled in herbivore dung, to mask his smell, prior to hunting
2006-09-07 18:30:01 · answer #6 · answered by ron m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋