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David Accetta

Nov 26, 2025

0:23
It was so perfect, it was like the platonic ideal of an authentic military flight jacket.
0:28
And historically, that was very warm and very durable.
0:46
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:46
... until my son was looking at the jacket, and he told me, and he said, "Is that Stüssy?" And I said, "What's Stüssy?"
29:15
He's the chief public affairs officer at Natick Soldier Systems Center, where they design and test all the clothes for the military.
29:22
The testing showed us that the Universe Camouflage Pattern had some degree of effectiveness in a lot of different environments, and that's one of the reasons it was chosen.

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47:02
Natick will tell you that both Multicam and OCP share a common ancestor, a pattern called Scorpion.
47:11
Crye came in to work with us on Scorpion.
47:15
You know, we did the research to figure out that that was the best pattern for the environments that we thought we might be having to send soldiers to at some point or another.
47:27
The result was what they called, eh, Multicam, and they trademarked as Multicam.
46:21
That's my guide, Chief Public Affairs Officer David Accetta.
46:24
We can control, you can see the monitor there, the temperature, the wind speed, and the relative humidity.
46:31
We have snow making capability in here.
48:47
The public affairs officer, David Accetta, chimed in here.
48:49
So this is a tool for commanders to figure out what uniforms their troops should be wearing for a given operation or mission to provide them with the best protection but optimal performance.

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