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At a great risk, =MAIM= has
managed to bring to you the Australian
Army’s infantry camouflage and concealment procedure.
This information
is currently RESTRICTED, and is impossible (until now) for non-authorized
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1. Camouflage & Concealment.
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Defn: Disguise of
guns, ships, etc. by obscuring with splashes of various
colours, smoke screens, foliage, etc.
and to hide or keep secret.
Camouflage and Concealment is used for evasive purposes or
penetrating
hostile areas.
The three (3) areas of personal camouflage are ;
(i) Face & Hands - all visible flesh must be camouflaged as it is very
distinguishable to the enemy, therefore making you
an easy target. This can be achieved
through the
proper application of camouflage cream, dirt, mud,
burnt corks, or anything
that will break up the
features of the face.
(ii) Webbing & Head - the body’s
webbing and headgear are also easily
distinguishable and their shape must be broken up
with grass, twigs, leaves. Pieces of hesian over
the top of the headgear allows bracken to
be
placed into breaking up the outline further.
(iii) Weapon - the silhouette of the
weapon must be broken up as well as
the reflecting parts of the weapon covered with non
reflecting material such as hesian.
The six (6) areas of concealment are ;
(i) Shape - avoid contrasts with background especially with webbing
and headgear. The breaking
up of the body’s shape is most
important. When on the ground not lying in visible open
spaces as opposed to lying in suitable undergrowth.
(ii) Silhouette - avoiding the body’s
outline against the skyline, day
or night as it makes an easy target for the enemy.
Also
avoid body outline against smooth objects
(iii) Shadow - avoid open areas when moving and when
moving move in the
shadows to further break up the body’s outline.
(iv) Surface - avoid
moving near or upon surfaces that will reflect the
body’s outline giving away your position to
the enemy.
(v) Spacing - when moving through the bush in a section avoid regular
spacing
between section members as it is easy to see the
strength of the section and plan the
appropriate ambush.
(vi) Movement - avoid sudden movements as this gives away the position
movements in advance so as not to be
caught out of
cover.
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CAMOUFLAGING YOUR BODY & EQUIPMENT
1 Before
camouflage
Think SHAPE, SHADOW, SHINE, SURFACE and use it as a checklist. Areas to
concentrate on are the shapes of your headgear, rifle, webbing, headgear
shadow, and shine
from your rifle and L-tool.
2 How to do it
Sew elastic strips on your webbing to
hold local camouflage. Put your
L-tool in a sandbag: it doesn’t just shine, it also makes
noise! Attach
scrim on a piece of hesian to your shoulders to cover the whole of your
back. This, like your headgear should be covered with strips of scrim
or hesian material.
3 After camouflage
Local camouflage secured on equipment and the body with black
elastic. It
must be secure enough not to fall out when you move or go for cover.
COLOUR
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Though most modern combat uniforms are now in a disruptive
pattern
camouflage, there may be times when this is less helpful. If you
are evading capture and are
unarmed, drab civilian outdoor clothing will
be less conspicuous if you encounter
civilians.
The trouble with camouflage-type clothing is that in the wrong
environment,
like cities, it seems to do the opposite it was intended to
do. In fighting in built-up areas
a camouflage of greys, browns and dull
reds would be better. The use of sacking and empty sand
bags as scrim
covers would help here.
Natural vegetation used to garnish headgear and
equipment will
fade and change colour. Leaves curl up and show their pale
under-surfaces. You may have put grass in your hat band and find
yourself in dark bush; or be
wearing dark green ferns when you are
moving across a patch of pale, open grass land. Check
and change your
local camouflage regularly.
The most obvious colour that needs
camouflaging is that of human
skin, and for that you need cam. paint. A common mistake is to
smear
paint over the front of the face and to miss the neck, ears and back of
the
hands.
Camouflage cream needs to be renewed as you move and sweat. A
simple pattern is
to take stripes diagonally across the face - this cuts
through the vertical and horizontal
lines of the eyes, nose and mouth.
Some camouflage creams have two colours, in which case you
can use the
dark colour to reduce the highlights formed by the bridge of the nose,
cheek
bones, chin and forehead. The lighter colour is used on areas of
shadow.
ASSOCIATION
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The enemy may not see you, but he might spot your equipment
or
refuse and associate that with a possible unit on the move. A cluster of
radio
antennas shows that a company HQ is on the move or dug in. The
cans stacked near a vehicle
park, perhaps with white tape around them,
are likely to be fuel. To a trianed observer the
unusual - a flash from
a plastic map case, or the smell of cooking - will alert him and he
will
bring his own sensors to bear on the area. This association must be
avoided by such
means as disguise, hiding or altercation. If you have a
large radio antenna you could disguise
it as a sapling, you could hide
it behind a tree or outcrop or you could bend it into an
abnormal shape.
Remember - SHAPE
SHADOW
SHINE
SURFACE
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Well
there you have it. NOTE- the above is only the first six
pages of a booklet, the rest I do
not, and probably can not, get.
However I do have other ADF restricted information on Control
Of
Movement, Silent Field Signals, RATEL (radio procedure), Map Reading &
Navigation, Field Craft-Contact Drill And Tactics (which includes such
goodies as ambushes,
breaking ambushes, assault and defence). I will put
these out if I get a good response from
this txt file. I am currently
looking for a d00d with a scanner to do some scanning of
various
documents I have. If you are a bit of an anarchist and own a scanner,
you can
contact me on aFFiLiaTeD CRiMe, using the account name "MAIM",
password
"anarchy".
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