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The Canadian Special Operations Forces Command is outfitting all its personnel, including support staff, with new uniforms for day-to-day use. The federal government recently issued a notice to industry that it was looking to buy over a five-year period more than 18,000 of those “multicam” uniforms. Those have a distinct camouflage pattern originally developed for the U.S. Army. Another request also went out for multicam flight suits for special forces tactical helicopter crews.

There is no cost at this point on what taxpayers will be shelling out for this move.

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But a senior Canadian Forces officer said he expects the regular Canadian Forces to also eventually adopt multicam over time. Whether that happens or other factors stand in the way of that (money for instance) remains to be seen.