- Cold weather parka (
olive drab green with white fur collar) is authorized for wear in the colder climate areas where it is issued
Whether painted in camouflaged
olive drab or glistening in its unpainted natural silver finish, this aircraft, bristling with .50-caliber machine guns, struck fear and demanded respect from its German adversaries in the Luftwaffe.
Black, white, and
olive drab; racial integration at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and the civil rights movement.
ARMY BLUE as a uniform color traces its origins to the National Blue first worn by Soldiers in the Continental Army of 1779, and it continued to serve as the color for Army dress uniforms even after introduction of the
olive drab field service uniform in 1902.
Castro appears alert and focused in the pictures, in which he is wearing an Adidas warm-up jacket in the red-white-and-blue colors of the Cuban flag instead of his trademark
olive drab. A day earlier, the Communist Party newspaper Granma quoted an unidentified friend as saying a visit to the self-styled Maximum Leader found Castro walking, engaging in animated conversation and even doing some work.
Colors are Mossy Oak New Break-Up, Advantage Timber, and Shannon
Olive Drab (Shannon Outdoors, Inc., 1-800-852-8058, www.bugtarner.cam).
A service patch on the left shoulder of his
olive drab woolen uniform features a black panther crushing a tank.
Typical body materials include brass, stainless steel and aluminum, plated with gold, silver, nickel, anodize and
olive drab. Contacts materials are brass, beryllium copper or phosphor bronze, with gold or silver plating.
Hunter's Boat and Tote, shown in camouflage and also available in
olive drab, is water-resistant, durable, and this fall's must-have.
Years of baking in the Texas sun had turned its
olive drab color to a pale lime green.
Were you to do so, a million ghosts in
olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses, thundering those magic words: Duty, honor, country.
Another mystery is why the terrorists decided to repaint the two launch tubes used to launch the surface-to-air missiles--from either camouflage khaki or
olive drab to brilliant skyblue--and later abandoned them near the Mombasa Airport perimeter?
