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Camouflage Patterns of Cambodia

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-* An interesting camouflage design was adopted by the 246 Special Forces Command Bodyguard Headquarters (BHQ) in 2021. This unit (កងអន្តរាគមន៍ទ័ពពិសេស ២៤៦ BHQ 246) traces its history to 246th Battalion, which defended Phnom Penh in 1991. This is an interesting dapple design, featuring smaller khaki and black spots with larger brown patches on a moss green background. There are also small images of the Angkor Wat in khaki incorporated into the design, as well as the number 246. The black lettering reads "bodyguard" in Khmer. It does not appear the pattern was worn after 2021, as most personnel in the unit reverted to wearing standard woodland pattern uniforms in later years.
+* An interesting camouflage design was adopted by the 246th Bodyguard Headquarters (កងអង្គរក្ស, or BHQ) Regiment in 2021. This unit traces its history to 246th Battalion, which defended Phnom Penh in 1991, and is considered the special operations element of the BHQ. This is an interesting dapple design, featuring smaller khaki and black spots with larger brown patches on a moss green background. There are also small images of the Angkor Wat in khaki incorporated into the design, as well as the number 246. The black lettering reads "bodyguard" in Khmer. It does not appear the pattern was worn after 2021, as most personnel in the unit reverted to wearing standard woodland pattern uniforms in later years.
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-* An interesting camouflage design was adopted by the 246 Bodyguard HQ in 2021. This unit traces its history to 246th Battalion, which defended Phnom Penh in 1991. This is an interesting dapple design, featuring smaller khaki and black spots with larger brown patches on a moss green background. There are also small images of the Angkor Wat in khaki incorporated into the design, as well as the number 246. The black lettering reads "bodyguard" in Khmer.
+* An interesting camouflage design was adopted by the 246 Special Forces Command Bodyguard Headquarters (BHQ) in 2021. This unit (កងអន្តរាគមន៍ទ័ពពិសេស ២៤៦ BHQ 246) traces its history to 246th Battalion, which defended Phnom Penh in 1991. This is an interesting dapple design, featuring smaller khaki and black spots with larger brown patches on a moss green background. There are also small images of the Angkor Wat in khaki incorporated into the design, as well as the number 246. The black lettering reads "bodyguard" in Khmer. It does not appear the pattern was worn after 2021, as most personnel in the unit reverted to wearing standard woodland pattern uniforms in later years.
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-* In 2013 a special project for the 911 Special Forces Regiment produced a very limited run of uniforms in a [[Digital patterns|pixelated]] version of the old [[Indonesia|Indonesian]] Special Forces vertical stripe pattern, seen here. Only 1500 meters of this fabric was produced by a textile factory in Indonesia, specifically for the 911 Regiment.
+* In 2013 a special project for the 911 Special Forces Regiment produced a very limited run of uniforms in a [[Digital patterns|pixelated]] version of the old [[Indonesia|Indonesian]] Special Forces vertical stripe pattern, seen here. Only 1500 meters of this fabric was produced by a textile factory in Indonesia, specifically for the 911 Regiment. Once the supply of fabric ran out, the Regiment reverted to wearing other camouflage designs, including DPM and woodland, as well as uniforms supplied by their Indonesian instructors.
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 * An interesting camouflage design was adopted by the 246 Bodyguard HQ in 2021. This unit traces its history to 246th Battalion, which defended Phnom Penh in 1991. This is an interesting dapple design, featuring smaller khaki and black spots with larger brown patches on a moss green background. There are also small images of the Angkor Wat in khaki incorporated into the design, as well as the number 246. The black lettering reads "bodyguard" in Khmer.

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		+	We wish to gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Mr. Kenneth Conboy for his generous assistance in providing research and documentation for this article.

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-* Some Cambodian military personnel now wear the US tricolor desert camouflage pattern - namely, the Navy's 31st (Marine) Brigade, which has been trained by elements of the USMC.
+* Some Cambodian military personnel have adopted the US tricolor desert camouflage pattern, including the Army's 31st Intervention (Marine) Brigade and the Cambodian Navy, both of which have received training by elements of the US Marine Corps.
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-* The Cambodian Army 911 Special Forces Regiment has continued to receive most of its training at the Indonesian Airborne Commando school. As a result, Indonesian [[DPM]] camouflage uniforms have been extremely common among members of the Regiment since originally adopted in the mid-1980s.
+* The Cambodian Army 911 Special Forces Regiment has continued to receive most of its training at the Indonesian Airborne Commando school. As a result, Indonesian [[DPM]] camouflage uniforms have been extremely common among members of the Regiment since originally adopted in the mid-1980s well into the early 2000s.
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-* The RCAF adopted a copy of the US m81 [[woodland]] camouflage pattern at some point in the 1990s, and most conventional units of the Army have continued to wear this pattern into the 2000s.
+* The RCAF adopted a copy of the US m81 [[woodland]] camouflage pattern at some point in the late 1990s, and most conventional units of the Army have continued to wear this pattern into the 2000s.
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 * Some Cambodian military personnel now wear the US tricolor desert camouflage pattern - namely, the Navy's 31st (Marine) Brigade, which has been trained by elements of the USMC.
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 * Using fabric imported from [[China]], locally-produced uniforms in the pattern seen below have been worn by the Cambodian Prime Minister's Bodyguard and members of the 911 Special Forces Regiment.

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-* Since the restoration fo the monarchy and the establishment of relative stability to Cambodia, the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) have begin participating in international peacekeeping efforts. Personnel on such deployments generally wear camouflage uniforms of two types, both locally-made copies of [[DPM]].
+* Since the restoration of the monarchy and the establishment of relative stability to Cambodia, the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) have begin participating in international peacekeeping efforts. Personnel on such deployments have generally worn locally-made copies of [[DPM]] camouflage uniforms in at least two different color schemes. Additionally, the 911 Special Forces Regiment has also been observed wearing locally-made DPM uniforms.
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