Well, never in my wildest dreams did I expect a US Marine to give someone else credit for being first <img src="images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
But the fact remains that, according to this guy's first-person account, the US Marines didn't start designing their MARPAT camo until 2 years after we Canucks had already field-tested (and, indeed, begun issuing) our CADPAT. <img src="images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
When I was attending a course at an RAF base in the UK, one of our instructors - a British army captain - told the story of how he attended an airshow in the USA, where one of the aircraft being demonstrated was an AV-8B Harrier. A young American officer (to be fair, I don't know if it was a Marine or not) turned to him and said "Bet you Brits wish you could invent something like that." <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
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