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How exactly do you test new uniform that has different style of camo on it?
Do they just send out tester with the new uniform and have somebody play "Spot the baddies"?
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Pretty close to it actually. The field tests are you have a bunch of sniper-trained people in different field environments, and you give them different designs of cammies. The ones that time after time get the closest before being spotted are the better cammies (lots of diff. people to take into account skills in hiding).
Before that though the civilians the Marines contracted made a computer program that looks for outlines of various things (trees/buildings/people). The digi-cammies were found to be the hardest to detect the outline of, and ANY person who knows about camoflage knows the intention is to break up the outline.