Urban Cadpat

[CrazyCanuck]

Much appreciated Trakalo

 

[Bomber]

On a side note, I did a NATO urban ID challenge yesterday, the only guy I kept missing was th one standing on the rail car next to a mortar.  I have no idea why I couldn;t find him, but eventually I got it.

This was a where's waldo style trial, find the troop as he hides in a blown out city, rail yard, inducstial compex, and other locals.  Good fun indeed.

 

[Scratch_043]

Bomber, what were the rules of the game? were troops able to use their surroundings and use their choice of camo? or were all the soldiers dressed the same in their cadpat, not being able to lie down, hide, crouck, etc. and were you in a fixed position to conduct the search (in eyeshot) or do you travel a path through the the village and scan as you move?

 

[darmil]

Is that the big Maclean's issue on the universities across Canada?I might have seen that same Ad ,I was looking through a Maclean's magazine. When I came across the CF Ad,
to me it looked like poor lighting, if that was the same ad which I think its is ..... it's CADPAT.

 

[CrazyCanuck]

You'd think that if they were going to make a recruiting ad or any ad for that matter that they would use good lighting... unless of course they had budget cuts it is Canada after all

 

[armyvern]

Hmmm, or perhaps it wasn't lighting. There are some prototype Urban cadpat around; a couple of us already told you guys that.

 

[Bomber]

Bomber, what were the rules of the game? were troops able to use their surroundings and use their choice of camo? or were all the soldiers dressed the same in their cadpat, not being able to lie down, hide, crouck, etc. and were you in a fixed position to conduct the search (in eyeshot) or do you travel a path through the the village and scan as you move?

Looking at pictures on a laptop, some of the guys had noraml TW or OD  or other NATO camoflage on, some had more urbanized clothes.  Thety were scattered around in all kinds of places, and the goal was to find them and click on them as quickly as possible.  Ranges were from right in front of you, to about 400-500 meters out.  The guy 500 meters out was hiding under a water or fuel tank, the shadow left only the shape of his head visible, scrim would have obscured him completely.  These were all still photos, so no motion ot pick up.  I beleive the test was more to find the naked eyes visual range and detection speed than to pick the next urban cam.

 

[Scratch_043]

yeah, that's what I expected, but I had assumed that it was a live drill; detection and camouflage exercise.

 

[medaid]

okie dokie want a pic of the Arctic Region CADPAT? Feast your eyes on THIS!


http://www.geocities.com/specialairservice22nd/CADPATS.html

yeah...I was bored I did a search and voila there it was! next to the arid table cloth and linens! Funny though... how an SAS want to be army cadet was able to get a picture when everyone else was searching our heads off  ;D....I mean we're SUPPOSED to know about these things right?