Posted on Mar 20, 2016

When can we expect to see our OCIE transition to match OCP? Is the Coyote Tan "overdye" process still going to happen?

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CSM Michael Poll

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I always loved wearing the OD Green mixed with the BDU, BDU mixed with the DCU, BDU mixed with ACU, mismatched is the way to go!!!! LOL

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Someone save this comment! I don't think I would've ever expected a Sergeant Major say "mismatched is the way to go." LOL

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SFC Benjamin Harrison

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It took a few years to convert our OCIE from BDU to ACU, so I'll go out on a limb and say it will probably be October 2018 before we start seeing anything.

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SFC Benjamin Harrison

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SFC (Join to see) - I haven't heard anything about "over dye". Not sure it would even work unless they just planned on making all OCIE strictly coyote brown. If this is the plan, I see someone at the top fighting the idea because of it not being "visually appealing". Perhaps for the sake of saving money, they should have reverted back to a patternless combat uniform as we had prior to the BDU.

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The "over dye" he is talking about is from an early ALARACT that mentioned that when we transitioned into the new uniform, we would all be sending in our UCP ACU OCIE to be dipped in coyote brown dye and sent back to us. However, like he said, I have not heard anything about it since then.

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MAJ (Join to see)

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http://soldiersystems.net/2014/06/23/billions-dollars-worth-ta-50-dye-course/ That's the most recent I've seen on the over dye.

What Do You Do With Billions Of Dollars Worth of UCP TA-50? Why You Dye It, Of Course - Soldier...

When the Army began its quest to identify a new camouflage pattern several years ago it also realized that it was going to have to do something with the several Billion Dollars worth of Organizational Clothing and Individual Equipment in the Universal Camouflage Pattern, already in its inventory. By PM SPIE, COL Robert Mortlock’s own assertion, the Army plans on an eight year period to fully transition from the current patterns to the new one....

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