# Red cammo fatigues-are they just for fun?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 30, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-cammo-fatigues-are-they-just-for-fun/687386 "2014-04-30T19:38:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-cammo-fatigues-are-they-just-for-fun/687386/21 "2014-05-01T13:49:33Z")

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The ones with red are for when we invade Themyscira during that time of the month when all the Amazons are synched up.

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**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-cammo-fatigues-are-they-just-for-fun/687386/22 "2014-05-01T16:44:40Z")

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The point of most camo is twofold- first, break up the shape of a human being, and second, have a color scheme similar to the terrain you’ll be in.

Red camo might do the first, but not the second.  
Incidentally, the point of the ‘digital’ camo is to effectively blur the borders between the different colors- a sharp line is much more easily visible than a more blurry one. The digital part was an artifact of the early computer imaging- it could be circles, etc… There’s nothing special about the digital part.

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**Author:** ![bunyupp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@bunyupp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunyupp)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-cammo-fatigues-are-they-just-for-fun/687386/23 "2014-05-01T17:56:49Z")

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A story on “Aquaflage” from [Duffleblog](http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/08/navy-praises-blue-digital-uniforms-after-two-sailors-lost-at-sea/#!G3dfl).  
(think The Onion for military stuff)

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-cammo-fatigues-are-they-just-for-fun/687386/24 "2014-05-01T17:59:27Z")

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I’ve seen orange camo. Must be good for hiding in pumpkin patches.

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