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Interesting, for they did come up with a stunningly good shade of green for non-field uniforms, I wore them in JROTC in the late '70s. On the other hand, olive drab wasn't a non-field uniform color, was it? I've heard that part of the equivalent WWII era color scheme including "pink", or so it was called.

Not that there's anything wrong with olive drab, prior to us going to camouflage patterns it helped in the field because you don't want to stand out from the background, and it wasn't bad in most environments for that.

(Compare to the Army's MARPAT envy rushed into the field "Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP), also referred to as ACUPAT (Army Combat Uniform Pattern) or Digital Camouflage" (Wikipedia), which I'm told and believe only works in a gravel pit.)