Writes Bob Sale:

Lew,

Though I’m no military expert or analyst, but instead just a working musician who often travels to Los Angeles (from San Diego), I couldn’t help noticing yesterday while driving to Orange County, that Camp Pendleton has changed its camouflage from desert colors to the types of greens and blacks we saw in Vietnam, Korea, and Europe. It always fascinates me to look over – both East and West of Interstate 5 – and see the maneuvers and training the Marines are doing. And for fifteen years, at least, the colors of camouflage have been beige and light brown. But yesterday there were at least six or seven tanks covered in classic green. I have to ask Why?