Bloated government bureaucracy at it’s worst. We organized, setup, and ran the entire program for more than three years. Air Force to develop their new organizational image “camouflage like” pattern. In 2001, Tiger Stripe Products was chosen by the U.S. You have to see it in person to really appreciate it’s highly effective colorway. From our relationship with Atlanco®, the outstanding, highly effective, and hugely popular All Terrain Tiger™ was introduced. We first worked with Propper International® and then with Atlanco/TRU-SPEC®. Next, due to the closings of most of the smaller sewing plants in the U.S., it was decided to license our copyrighted camouflage designs to the larger manufacturers. Our Desert Tiger™’s continue to be a favorite of Special Operation operators, Army Rangers, Army Special Forces, and Security Forces throughout the world to this day. With this battlefield experience, reports back from USMC Force Recon, and other Spec Ops, were all highly favorable. The Marine Corps at Camp Lejeune bought an entire 2500 set run of these uniforms. Our Desert Tiger™ came on board shortly before DESERT SHIELD/STORM. They could have used our far superior authentic Original Vietnam Tiger Stripe™ uniform that actually still functions very well in the real Special Operations community. Understandably it is a TV show but, they could have easily gone the extra step. This stripe pattern is horribly ineffective in the real world. However, “SEAL Team” wardrobe unfortunately selected a very cheap commercial knock-off stripe pattern to use in their North Korean episode. The most recent sightings of our products have been in select episodes of CBS’s “NCIS:Los Angeles” and “SEAL Team”. We supplied the CBS TV Series “Tour Of Duty”, the Disney® film “Dumbo Drop”, “Terminator Salvation”, and Showtime’s® “Stargate SG-1” just to name a few. Hollywood came calling with numerous request for our authentic Original Vietnam Tiger Stripe™ pattern uniforms. Cavalry®, and Quartermaster Uniform® catalog houses. We sold retail to the public and sold wholesale to an international network of dealers including Brigade Quartermasters®, U.S. Production costs more than doubled but it ultimately yielded a very high quality garment. made, copyrighted, Original Vietnam Tiger Stripe™ pattern. Manufacturing, sizing, quality control, and deliveries were all very… well… lacking.īy 1985, we had re-thought our project and began offering our superior, U.S. In 1984, Tiger Stripe Products began producing uniforms by having our Tiger Stripe clothing manufactured in Thailand. Almost invariably four-colour in design, the Tiger patterns usually have a light stone base with green as a secondary colour plus either an olive or brown shade as the minor colour.A brief history of Tiger Stripe Products. The Tiger Stripe family of patterns evolved from post-WWII French Lizard (or Leopard) patterns, themselves derivatives of the British WWII Brushstroke pattern, and although there is has been a great deal of variety over the years the Tigers remain mostly horizontal in nature with large patches of black, or near black, to give depth. The Tiger Stripe camo their uniforms are made from is one of a plethora of slightly different patterns widely used in the Tropics / Far East and it appears it may possibly be one of the Philippines variants, though I was unable to check garments for manufacturer’s labels to ascertain precisely. SABER JUNCTION 20 Cherokee Company (the battalion’s companies bear the names of Native Indian tribes) operated in a different role from other OpFor troops (including Georgian, Latvian, Romanian, Ukrainian and US contingents) and although we are not able to comment on the precise training scenario it was obvious they were participating as conventional troops rather than irregulars or militia.Ĭherokee Company OpFor, Hohenfels 2020 The two soldiers seen here were assigned to Cherokee Company of 1st Battalion of the 4th ‘Warriors’ Infantry Regiment, which has been permanently stationed in Hohenfels for thirty years as the dedicated CMTC then JMRC (Combat Maneuver Training Center then Joint Multinational Readiness Center) OpFor training formation although permanently garrisoned in Germany since 1990, 1-4 IN also operationally deployed reinforced companies to Afghanistan several times between 20. The dedicated USAREUR (US Army Europe) OpFor (Opposing Force) battalion operating primarily on Hohenfels Training Area in Bavaria, as documented by Carl Schulze in his two-part USAREUR OpFor ~ Men In Black In 2014 feature, predominantly wears black combat uniform on exercises but they also have the option of wearing Tiger Stripe camouflage if the exercise scenario requires a distinct alternative look. On the recent Exercise SABER JUNCTION 20 on Hohenfels Training Area I grabbed the chance to snap US OpFor in rarely seen Tiger Stripe camo, reports Bob Morrison.
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