Is it my civic duty to inform the British Army......?

Question

that when I saw them running around the forest in their camouflage that I could still see them? Clearly this needs a bit of a rethink.

jsardi56.... definately no walls.... just a big forest with them running through making one god awful racket. I think you'll find its humpty dumpty on the wall.

Answer 1

I think it's your civic duty to , go drinking in Aldershot tonight and entertain some squaddies !

Answer 2

No - camouflage is not effective when the person moves - it only helps to not be so noticeable when looked at from far away or above while lying down.

Answer 3

Seriously, if you were trying to lay the sights of a rifle on a stationary target at a range of 300 meters, the camouflage would make a very big difference.

When a soldier is moving, personal camouflage is essentially worthless, because the rods (one of the sensors in your eyes) are not fooled by color and they pick up the movement.

I was on maneuvers one time, and caught by an opfor patrol out in the open on a hillside. (I was supposed to get to the ridge and ambush them.) The biggest tree around was about the size of a broomstick, so I placed my rifle behind that tree and stood stock still. The opfor people walked right past me, one of them was less than three meters away...I could even tell what brand of aftershave he had used that morning (cadet from Annapolis and he was wearing...wait for it :-) ... Old Spice. I apologize to any of you lot to whom the cultural reference is meaningless, but Old Spice is a men's cologne that markets itself as having the aroma of the sea, or being worn by sailors.)

Anyhow, so long as I stood still, nobody saw me. Of course, they all saw me when I spun around, thinking they had all passed me, and I hosed them down. One sneaky little git was a straggler and he popped me in the back, but not until I had decimated his whole outfit so badly that they turned around called off their attack on my HQ.

One of the instructors videotaped the whole exchange. I heard from a current cadet that that officer still plays that tape during beast barracks for new cadets to show them that even an out-of-shape old man can wipe out a platoon of idiots if they don't keep their wits about them :-)

Camo works, but only so far.

Answer 4

I think its a good idea yes. However tell them this joke at the same time. If the smallest unit of length is a millimetre and the smallest unit of liquid is millilitre then what is the smallest unit of intelligence! A : Le militaire (French joke obviously)

Answer 5

You probably only saw a few of them, the others were there, they were just disguised as speed cameras, waste paper baskets, and telegraph poles. You would be surprised how weill camouflaged some people can be!

Answer 6

Some times when people wear camoflage as a fasion statement I take great pleasure in bumping into them really hard, and then saying; "sorry, didn't see you there".

So far no ones gotten the joke, but I crack up everytime.

It's the little things.

Answer 7

You can....but I doubt that the British Army will up and change their military camouflage any time soon.

Answer 8

Oh, the brutes!
I told them that pink camouflage would never work.

And you, my passion! Were you a chameleon in a past life?

Answer 9

Camoflage only works properly at night, when you really do blend in. During the day its not so effective. But if they were having fun, then theres no harm in it.

Answer 10

lol. maybe they should do a physical theatre course and learn how to be the trees themselves. You wouldn't need camouflage then.