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Blackstone

Brigadier
Well, when the marines attack beaches, they come from the ocean. The defenders positioned inland would look toward the ocean for any sign of the marines. And they would see much of the ocean and sky, both of which would be blue. Hence the blue background, my guess...
Problem is, successful amphibious operations might take the Marines inland, and once away from the beaches, they stick out like sore thumbs. There were good reasons why the British army replace red uniforms with khaki and woodland colors.
 

vesicles

Colonel
Problem is, successful amphibious operations might take the Marines inland, and once away from the beaches, they stick out like sore thumbs. There were good reasons why the British army replace red uniforms with khaki and woodland colors.

It depends on what the PLAN-Marines' role is intended to be. Would it be possible that the Marines' main role is to take the beaches? Once the beach head is cleared, the army takes over.

If you notice, only the Marines have the blue camo. Again, my philosophy is that we should give the PLA some credit. The PLA has a looooong tradition of fighting the ground war, especially against enemies with superior weapons. In such conditions, camouflage is absolutely critical. So I would think that the PLA should know a thing or two about camouflage. At least, they should know the basics, like not to use blue camo in a mainly yellow and green background. Don't you think?

So instead of immediately jumping to a conclusion that the PLA has such a low IQ and would make the most fundamental mistakes and make a fool of themselves, we should probably give them some benefit of the doubt. There is something more than meets the eye, so to speak???

This is especially the case when the PLA clearly DO have khaki/woodland camos. So they DO know how to make camo that blend in with the background. And they do know the fundamentals of making camo. So why would they single out the Marines?? Does the PLA hate the Marines and intentionally put their Marines in harm's way and make them more vulnerable? This makes absolutely no sense. So why would they do it and keep doing it? There has to be a logical explanation. Don't you think?
 
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TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
So why would they single out the Marines??
It's vanity camo. The PLA issues unique patterns to special "Elite" Units. 2nd Art wears mostly the woodland pattern, 38th Group Army was pctured in 09 sporting a unique woodland dubbed Type 07 Hunter Digital Camo, PLAAF sports a Urban pattern, on 60th national the 15th Airborne wore a digital Sky blue, green, greyish green and light greyish blue set unique to themselves, PAP has it's own camo pattern with Arid and a Tiger stripe variant to once again single out elites from the grunts.
 

no_name

Colonel
Just for clarification the British army did not issue Red uniforms because it hit blood. ( It doesn't the blood would show as black as it dries) They issued Red as the Red colored Dye was cheap... As always lowest bidder.

Studies with Karate bouts with participants wearing either blue or red claims that those wearing red produced more testosterone (or is it Adrenalin?) while it suppresses those facing the read wearing opponent. Probably didn't make that much differences.
 

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
yes by nature the color red effects the brain into aggression well blue stimulates strategy. however, the Choice of Red uniform color made by the British dates at least to 1645 well before any studies were conducted. .
 
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