Military camouflage really started in the middle of the 19th Century with the introduction of khaki, he says, but what we think of camouflage now evolved in World War I to counter the new menaces of aircraft and submarines.

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Stationed in a remote corner of Australia's Northern Territory, he paints military aircraft hangars in camouflage colours.

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They banned camouflage and military boots and opened up the competition to all comers, who were allowed to use mass-produced blades.

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IR Passing by the snack bar at Tallinn airport recently, I saw two United States Marine Corps military policemen in immaculate camouflage fatigue uniforms enjoying cups of coffee.

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Anyone who watches TV has seen the familiar images from the warfront: military men and women in desert camouflage uniforms riding in Humvees, patrolling dusty streets, firing their weapons.

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Sometime of them wore garish military regalia festooned with patches, some wore camouflage, some wore Armani, some wore tribal garb, some wore peasant garb, some wore nothing above the waist preferring to appear shirtless in photographs.

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For all the popularity of camouflage backpacks and jackets, we are hardly a culture that looks to its military as an arbiter of fashion or, for that matter, as art patrons.

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The attackers were wearing military-style uniforms that are easily bought in Afghan markets and had painted a pickup in camouflage to disguise it as an Afghan National Army vehicle so it could bypass checkpoints, she said.

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