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The designation came from the U.S. Army's coloring code "Olive Green 107", which was the shade of dark green used on the original cotton version of the uniform. The OG-107 was superseded by the Battle Dress Uniform (BDU) throughout the 1980s, and was also used by several other countries, including ones that received military aid from the United ...
Fir green: Galactica: RAL 6010: Grass green: RAL 6011: Reseda green: RAL 6012: Black green: Until 1994 for some units of the Bundesgrenzschutz [citation needed] RAL 6013: Reed green: RAL 6014: Yellow olive: Until 1984 for vehicles of the German Bundeswehr. [8] Since 1993 for the Swiss army bicycles. [9] RAL 6015: Black olive: RAL 6016 ...
Olive drab is variously described as a "A brownish-green colour" (Oxford English Dictionary); [5] "a shade of greenish-brown" (Webster's New World Dictionary); [6] "a dark gray-green" (MacMillan English dictionary); "a grayish olive to dark olive brown or olive gray" (American Heritage Dictionary); [7] or "A dull but fairly strong gray-green color" (Collins English Dictionary).
FS 595 code White: n/a Desert sand: 30279 Sand: 30277 Earth yellow: 30257 Earth red: 30117 Field drab: 30118 Earth brown: 30099 Olive drab: 34087 Light green: 34151 ...
From the beginning of organised motor sport events, in the early 1900s, until the late 1960s, before commercial sponsorship liveries came into common use, vehicles competing in Formula One, sports car racing, touring car racing and other international auto racing competitions customarily painted their cars in standardised racing colours that indicated the nation of origin of the car or driver.
The official model for the military colours was established in 1911 and states that they should measure 120 cm in the hoist by 130 cm in the fly, the field being vertically divided in green and red, with the National coat of arms in the centre, surrounded by two golden olive branches tied by a white scroll containing the motto Esta é a Ditosa ...
As all Latvian government institutions since January 2015, the Ministry of Defence uses the Large Coat of Arms of Latvia as its logo, sometimes topped with a bar of the respective color of the ministry (HEX #666633 or olive green in this case).
The United States Marine Corps (USMC) adopted the green-dominant version as standard issue in South Vietnam in 1968, and later the U.S. Army introduced it on a wide scale in Southeast Asia. The ERDL-pattern combat uniform was identical in cut to the OG-107 Tropical Combat uniform, commonly called "jungle fatigues", it was issued alongside. [7]