The MARPAT camouflage combat utility uniforms are the day-to-day wear for Marines. The Corps has been experiencing a shortage of those uniforms since the summer of 2022.

Unlike the Army's effort, MARPAT makes no attempt at being a universal camouflage, and there are two sets of colors used: For wooded areas, green, tan, brown, and black, and for desert ...

MARPAT camouflage achieves this through the use of pixilated fractals, essentially rectangular pixels, which camouflages the wearer over a range of distances, or scales.

That began to change when the Marine Corps fielded its digital-style MARPAT camouflage pattern in 2002, in turn prompting each service to develop its own pattern. Some have come in for criticism ...

The digital desert camouflage the militants are wearing resembles the pattern licensed to the U.S. Marine Corps. It's known as MARPAT, which is short for "Marine Pattern." ...

The older Universal Camouflage Pattern has been criticized as ineffective, and some soldiers see the Marine Corps ' MARPAT (Marine Pattern) as vastly superior.

It is roughly a 6-foot by 7-foot, 2 inch reversible tarp with woodland MARPAT camouflage on the nylon side and the underside being coated and coyote brown in color. It weighs just over two pounds.

Army leaders will have to include the Marine Corps' camouflage patterns in the new camouflage strategy the service plans to unveil in April.

Their uniform would be mistaken for a soldier's if it weren't for their "Police" patches. They wear green tops, and pants fashioned after the U.S. Marine Corps MARPAT camouflage pattern.

Over the years, West Point has served as a sort of proving ground for improved camouflage. In the Engineering Psychology program within the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership ...

In other environments, the same camouflage might be more reflective than the natural environment – jungle foliage, for example – and glow bright as the Marine Corps has found with MARPAT.

MARPAT camouflage achieves this through the use of pixilated fractals, essentially rectangular pixels, which camouflages the wearer over a range of distances, or scales.