However, as of recently, Parry reported recruits receiving two woodland and one desert uniform with many new Marines now training in FROG gear despite being “designated for deployment issue only.” ...

The new gear is the result of a lengthy search. The Marine Corps first issued a pre-solicitation for the uniform items in desert, woodland and coyote patterns and colors in early 2014.

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The Marine Corps is purchasing 70,000 of the enhanced uniforms in the woodland green camouflage pattern, Bell said. They will be available for deploying Marines beginning in July 2017.

The Marine Corps says it won’t have a full stock of the woodland-pattern camouflage combat utility uniform ― the everyday outfit for most Marines ― until summer or fall 2024.

The Marine Corps in April began fielding the new 25 percent-lighter Plate Carrier Generation III to grunts ahead of a push to reach full operational capability for the new vest by fiscal year 2023.

The Marine Corps is shuttering its combat gear storage program in the Middle East as it shifts attention to Europe and the Pacific.. The fiscal 2023 defense budget request called for divestment of ...