Paint your Flying Wagons, U.S. Army!

We don't want to hear it.

PAINT YOUR DAMN HELICOPTERS SKY GRAY, U.S. Army Aviator; war doesn't stop during the day time--when YOU WILL fly.

A recent DoD study concludes 76% of all U.S. helo shoot-downs took place during DAYLIGHT but the dumbasses persist in dark green helos!

QUOTE:

"In OEF/OIF, 76% of combat hostile action losses occurred during daylight hours"

"Study on Rotorcraft Survivability" Summary Briefing 19 October 2009 for Congress/DoD, by JAS, IDA

You can read the entire report below and notice the idiots don't even think of improving their camouflage!

PDF
http://www.combatreform.org/SRS_Summary_Public_Release_10-19-09.pdf

PPTX
http://www.combatreform.org/SRS_Summary_Public_Release_10-19-09.pptx

WHAT GOOD CAMOUFLAGE LOOKS LIKE:

http://www.combatreform.org/camie.htm

ALL our Army aircraft should be painted in proper sky-gray camouflage and even have things like Yehudi lights employed etc.

The GAO report on the Iraq War 1 air campaign states:

www.fas.org/man/gao/nsiad97134/app_04.htm

"The fact that the optically-aimed AAA and IR SAMs remained lethal throughout the air campaign put a premium on the extent to which aircraft operating during the day could be made less visible through camouflage. A-10 pilots told us that the aircraft's dark green paint scheme--intended for low-level operations in northern Europe (including for concealment from aircraft from above)--made them stand out in the desert against both sand and sky. Consequently, some A-10 units began to paint their aircraft the same light gray color scheme of most other Air Force aircraft. However, the units that repainted their A-10s were subsequently ordered by Air Force Component, Central Command (CENTAF) to change them back to dark green.

A total of 20 A-10s was hit during the war--nearly 25 percent of all aircraft casualties. Some A-10 pilots we spoke to believed--and one participating unit's after-action report stated--that the DARK GREEN paint was unacceptable and may have been responsible for some of the casualties. A post-war Air Force study on survivability stated that the concerns over the A-10's paint scheme were 'valid' and recommended that, in the future, 'Paint schemes must be adaptive to the environment in which the aircraft operate.' [46] It is noteworthy that no A-10s were shot down, or even damaged, at night, when the dark paint scheme very probably assisted them or, at minimum, did not make them stand out."

"I'm on my Way" title song from the 1969 movie "Paint Your Wagon" starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin and Jean Seaberg

Gold
Gold
Gold
Gold
Gold
Gold!
Gold!!

Gotta dream boy
Gotta song
Paint your wagon
And come along

Where am I goin'?
I don't know
Where am I headin'?
I ain't certain
All I know
Is I am on my way

When will I be there?
I don't know
When will I get there?
I ain't certain
All that I know
Is I am on my way

Gotta dream boy
Gotta song
Paint your wagon
[And come along - Sung In German]

[Verse sung in German]

[Verse sung in Chinese]

[Verse sung in American Indian]

Gotta dream boy
Gotta song
Paint your wagon
And come along

Where am I goin'?
I don't know
When will I be there?
I ain't certain
What will I get?
I ain't equipped to say

But who gives a damn?
Who gives a damn?
Who gives a damn?
We're on our way

Where am I goin'?
I don't know
Where am I headin'?
I ain't certain
All that I know
Is I am on my way

When will I be there?
I don't know
When will I get there?
I ain't certain
All that I know
Is I am on my way

-Instrumental-

When am I goin'?
I don't know
Where am I headin'?
I ain't certain
All that I know
Is I am on my way

When will I be there?
I don't know
When will I get there?
I ain't certain
All that I know
Is I am on my way

Gotta dream boy
Gotta song
Paint your wagon
And come along

Where are we goin'?
I don't know
When will we be there?
I ain't certain
What will we get?
I ain't equipped to say
But who gives a damn?
Who gives a damn?
We're on our way!

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• non-linear
• war
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[dynmicpara]

A recent DoD study concludes 76% of all U.S. helo shoot-downs took place during DAYLIGHT but the dumbasses persist in dark green helos!

QUOTE:

"In OEF/OIF, 76% of combat hostile action losses occurred during daylight hours"

"Study on Rotorcraft Survivability" Summary Briefing 19 October 2009 for Congress/DoD, by JAS, IDA

[Coop772]

I think all sky gray would be the best, because like in the video, you can see the top and upper sides from a distance on the ground.

[larsanien]

the best is still when you have the downside sky colored (gray, light blue) and the upper side or half ground colored (tan or olive-green)

[Fox111one111eleven1]

But... It's not sexy. How could anyone possibly walk with that beats-off-to-Top-Gun sanctimonious-swager while flying something that isn't sexy?...

[trojankev]

We Americans will always do the right thing......after we've exhausted all the other possibilities. Doh!

[BlacktailFA]

Gray may not be stylish, but it beats the heck out of the US Army Air Corps' current "There it is-Green" camo scheme.