As of 2017, the Pentagon had spent $93 million to buy 1.3 million uniforms in the forest camouflage pattern for the Afghan army. Since the war began, there have been 2,400 U.S. troops killed in ...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is under fire for spending nearly $28 million procuring camouflage uniforms for the Afghan army, gear suited for environments so rare they account for just 2 percent of ...

The Department of Defense procured uniforms for the Afghan Army in a camouflage pattern that is both far more expensive than other options and likely inappropriate for the landscape there, a U.S ...

Afghan militants often disguise themselves as soldiers or policemen for attacks, and buying a complete uniform in Kabul's hectic bazaar does not cost more than 800 Afghanis (${esc.dollar}17).

Early in 2007, the Afghan Defense Ministry decided it needed a “new and distinctive uniform” to set the Afghan army apart. In February 2007, U.S. officials training the Afghan army cruised the ...

Coming well after a spate of Quixotic attacks against coalition bases in Afghanistan -- including Bagram Air Field, Kandahar Air Field and Camp Salerno in Khost -- where suicide squads of Taliban ...

WASHINGTON, June 3 (UPI) --In over 240 years of military history, uniform choices for U.S. soldiers have changed dramatically. From colonial blue coats and tights to digital camouflage, the armed ...

An Afghan soldier killed a two-star U.S. Army general when he opened fire on a group of Western military officers Tuesday, claiming the highest-ranking American casualty in more than a decade of war.

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, March 1, 2010) -- Soldiers deploying to Afghanistan will be issued the new "MultiCam" fire-resistant Army Combat Uniform complete with new Mountain Combat Boots and ...

Afghan police on Saturday ratcheted up enforcement on stores and tailor shops that illegally make and sell military and police uniforms after a string of attacks by insurgents dressed as Afghan ...

Two new Army Combat Uniform camouflage patterns - MultiCam® and the Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP-Delta) - are being tested by two Afghanistan-based battalions.