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Originally Posted by Deftonius
If you wanna do the whole black hawk down style getup, and wanna be historically accurate, use full 6 colour pattern BDUs, because that's what they really used. But the 3 colour does look cooler.
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Actually, both Choc Chip and tricolor appear to have been used, so the tricolor depiction in the film is correct.
Supporting pictures:
http://www.tfrogs.com/Pictures/Memor...alia_Sep93.jpg
http://www.tfrogs.com/Pictures/Memor...alia_Aug93.jpg
This one (dated 1994 on the webpage) shows guys wearing both:
http://gunnywade.com/images/gunnywade/Patroll.jpg
This page has a bunch of pics, too:
http://1-22infantry.org/pics/strader.htm
Including one good one, half way down, with people wearing both again -- and what appears to be a 6 color PASGT frag vest.