Uniforms of the United States Military

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Each branch of the United States armed forces has its own Uniform regulations.

[edit] Combat uniforms overview

Army - ACU
currently, two patterns are in use - UCP and MultiCam
Marines - MCCUU
(woodland and desert variants)
Navy - NWU
Air Force - ABU
Coast Guard - ODU
Coast Guard - CGCUU (used in oversea deployment or combat operations)
Other - MultiCam, used by US Army and ground USAF units deployed in Afghanistan, and Special Operations Forces.

List of current camouflage patterns and uniforms
Branch	Camouflage pattern	Image	Notes	In use since
Army	Universal Camouflage Pattern, used for the Army Combat Uniform (ACU). Units deployed in Afghanistan use MultiCam instead, known as OCP pattern.	and	On June 16 2009, the United States House of Representatives passed a bill requiring the Army to buy new, different uniforms for the War in Afghanistan, with camouflage pattern that would better suit the Afghan environment.^[1] As of 2010, US Army units deployed in Afghanistan are being issued uniforms with MultiCam pattern.	2005
Marine Corps	MARPAT pattern, used for the Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform (MCCUU) in two variants, woodland and desert.		USMC MARPAT pattern was the first digitalized (pixelated) pattern in the US Military.	2002
Navy	Navy Working Uniform (NWU).		There are three variants of the camouflage. Standard blue-grey for shipboard use, and then digital woodland and digital desert variants, previously known as AOR I and AOR II, similar to MARPAT and CADPAT.	2009
Air Force	Digitalized tigerstripe, used for the Airman Battle Uniform (ABU). Air Force ground-based units, security units, and special operations units, that are deployed in Afghanistan, use MultiCam instead, known as OCP pattern.	and	Fielding of MultiCam began in September 2010.	2007