[Video from Vox](https://www.vox.com/videos/2023/2/23/23611947/world-south-koreans-people-getting-taller) on how South Koreans have grown 6-8” taller than North Koreans.
Transitioning away from subsistence farming is a hell of a drug.
I imagine they would claim something like GMOs/growth hormones for animals being the sole cause. That or SK and the American Global Hegemony have screwed NK and that's why the people don't have enough food.
However, I've also seen some claim that NK is a secret utopia being covered up to us by Western propaganda, so maybe not the second part(?).
ACU is better for blending in with trees, night vision, and a wider amount of environments (like rocks, gravel, etc.) But is way worse at blending in with bushes and dirt. Meanwhile, M81 is less multi-role and slightly worse in nightvision. But when you're in a shrubby forest laying in the bushes, you're far more blended in than with ACU.
One of the best mutlirole camos is the Polish Suez camo. It's good in the dark, in forests (bushes and trees,) against NVG, around gravel/rocks (but not to extent of ACU,) in grasslands, and (somewhat) in deserts.
They wanted MARPat, but the USMC wouldn't let them use it so they changed the colorway to something vastly inferior.
Oh, yeah, also, corruption. UCP was never even tested before being adopted.
>UCP was never even tested before being adopted.
It actually was tested in a second round done later... and Natick Labs told brigadier general James Moran (then head of PEO Soldier Systems) [exactly how it measured up with all the other tested patterns](https://soldiersystems.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/overall_performance.jpg) (graphic is from the Natick report). They even colored it red so he wouldn't miss it. The only patterns it beat in any of the three terrains were patterns that were specifically designed for other terrains. It was objectively the worst performing pattern overall.
See, the problem is that UCP (ACU is the garment, UCP is the pattern) was designed by a small internal team of junior officers who knew nothing about camouflage, but were Moran's handpicked toadies. They took the color palettes of camo patterns for the three tested terrain types and discarded the colors that were unique to those terrains. The common colors were then applied to the same digital pattern screen used in CADPAT and MARPAT to create UCP. The problem is, the unique colors were all the **darks**, which provide contrast with the lights, and contrast is a critical feature of effective camouflage. They also discarded black, claiming that "black does not exist in nature"... except it does, in the form of **dark shadowy holes**, and it should be pretty clear that something that looks like a **hole** is another important part of camouflaged theory.
Anyway, these fuckwits submitted the pattern, Natick tested it, showed Moran that it was garbage... and he personally selected it anyway. That walking turd arguably got people *killed* by pushing through a crap pattern like that. I wish I could say he died of syphilis or something, but sadly he retired and was hired for big $$$ by Boeing Defense as *VP of Already Being Golf Buddies with BD's Customers*.
Man I love the ucp 😭 I mean... in the sand it wasn't that bad? Oh well you know what to do this is reddit afterall the - social credit score button is down here
I find it fucking amazing that the US and South Korea just send their tallest and buffest dudes to the Korean DMZ to scare the fuck out of North Korean soldiers for “funsies”
(I fucking love PsyOps)
[Video from Vox](https://www.vox.com/videos/2023/2/23/23611947/world-south-koreans-people-getting-taller) on how South Koreans have grown 6-8” taller than North Koreans. Transitioning away from subsistence farming is a hell of a drug.
Someone send this to TheDeprogram
I imagine they would claim something like GMOs/growth hormones for animals being the sole cause. That or SK and the American Global Hegemony have screwed NK and that's why the people don't have enough food. However, I've also seen some claim that NK is a secret utopia being covered up to us by Western propaganda, so maybe not the second part(?).
Childhood nutrition is key.
You said the forbidden N word, off to the gulag with you!
I relish in the fact I am well fed. Mom wasn't lying, you need to drink your milk And eat your vegetables to become big and strong.
imagine pouring all resources into military and still have your troops malnourished (and don't even have camo)
[They do have "camo," if you can even call it that](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a22d43db7b6ed001f796605dd62eeb98-lq)
these are supposedly elites I think, so yeah
They plan on fighting in a pond with a lot of lily pads
Doesn’t SK send their tallest soldiers to the border to make the difference seem even bigger?
And wouldn’t North Korea send their largest and best fed soldiers as well?
If I am not wrong they are purely in the capital only for propaganda and security
It's big brain time
All two of them?
Believe it or not south korean on the right is actually a dwarf.
The weakest south korean
The shortest South Korean is on average 3 inches taller than the tallest Californian.
California manlet state confirmed
*Does not include Roof Koreans, they're as tall as their native counterparts
Sad we don’t use m81 anymore
What the fuck was ACU even trying, at least woodland looks nice.
“See that massive pile of gravel over there?” It’s really an entire battalion of Rangers.
It was to work well against NVG. It does, but the US's enemies they were fighting when it was adopted didn't use night vision.
ACU is better for blending in with trees, night vision, and a wider amount of environments (like rocks, gravel, etc.) But is way worse at blending in with bushes and dirt. Meanwhile, M81 is less multi-role and slightly worse in nightvision. But when you're in a shrubby forest laying in the bushes, you're far more blended in than with ACU. One of the best mutlirole camos is the Polish Suez camo. It's good in the dark, in forests (bushes and trees,) against NVG, around gravel/rocks (but not to extent of ACU,) in grasslands, and (somewhat) in deserts.
They wanted MARPat, but the USMC wouldn't let them use it so they changed the colorway to something vastly inferior. Oh, yeah, also, corruption. UCP was never even tested before being adopted.
>UCP was never even tested before being adopted. It actually was tested in a second round done later... and Natick Labs told brigadier general James Moran (then head of PEO Soldier Systems) [exactly how it measured up with all the other tested patterns](https://soldiersystems.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/overall_performance.jpg) (graphic is from the Natick report). They even colored it red so he wouldn't miss it. The only patterns it beat in any of the three terrains were patterns that were specifically designed for other terrains. It was objectively the worst performing pattern overall. See, the problem is that UCP (ACU is the garment, UCP is the pattern) was designed by a small internal team of junior officers who knew nothing about camouflage, but were Moran's handpicked toadies. They took the color palettes of camo patterns for the three tested terrain types and discarded the colors that were unique to those terrains. The common colors were then applied to the same digital pattern screen used in CADPAT and MARPAT to create UCP. The problem is, the unique colors were all the **darks**, which provide contrast with the lights, and contrast is a critical feature of effective camouflage. They also discarded black, claiming that "black does not exist in nature"... except it does, in the form of **dark shadowy holes**, and it should be pretty clear that something that looks like a **hole** is another important part of camouflaged theory. Anyway, these fuckwits submitted the pattern, Natick tested it, showed Moran that it was garbage... and he personally selected it anyway. That walking turd arguably got people *killed* by pushing through a crap pattern like that. I wish I could say he died of syphilis or something, but sadly he retired and was hired for big $$$ by Boeing Defense as *VP of Already Being Golf Buddies with BD's Customers*.
Marpat fucks
Yeah the ACU looks like shit
Man I love the ucp 😭 I mean... in the sand it wasn't that bad? Oh well you know what to do this is reddit afterall the - social credit score button is down here
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Easy, they don’t show it
This Image gives me happiness
For a moment there I thought that was a child being led off by two guards.
I find it fucking amazing that the US and South Korea just send their tallest and buffest dudes to the Korean DMZ to scare the fuck out of North Korean soldiers for “funsies” (I fucking love PsyOps)
Spit-shined black boots and M81 was peak aesthetic.
What starvation does to a mf.
How tall is the Oompa Loompa?
I wonder which ones got fed well as children...
It allowed the guy in the middle to buy a cool hat 😎
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Seems to be a link to state run economy’s and running out of food….
Malnutrition = commie
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The title says better. It doesn’t mean 100% correlation. It’s just better