Wow! Thanks guys. I've been playing around with the Scotweb designer, but have come up with nothing near as nice as what y'all have.

OCRiichard, your design really captures the colors of the dress uniform. It's a little more the officer uniform than the enlisted uniform, but it works nicely. I like the idea of being able to incorporate an Infantry blue stripe between two of the gold lines in you second effort. The pattern would allow one of any branch to have a custom weave with the specific branch color between the stripes. Notice the officer in the first picture has the maroon stripe of the Medical Service Corp within the gold stripes on his coat sleeves and the trouser legs -- also the cap. I wore the same with Infantry blue where the maroon is. We could all be happy with variations on that tartan -- except maybe the armor branch, the cavalry guys, but they don't count.

Guniness>water, your New US Army tartan is a real improvement on the original versions. I could wear that.

Artificer, you nailed the olive color the original pattern is missing. Olive drab will long be associated with the Army, although I suppose the younger generation will soon come to think of ACU green as their color, it's more like German feldgrau, maybe sand. At a minimum there should be a shade of green honoring The Big Green Weenie.

The original US Army tartan is supposed to have black from the beret. The Army uniform has included a lot of black, ever since the green gas station attendant uniform was adopted decades ago -- black shoes, black belt, black necktie; black in things like Ranger tabs etc. There's still a lot of black in the current uniform. I don't have a big problem with black in an Army tartan.

Several shades have been called Khaki over the years. It has historical significance. No problem with that either.

The original tartan called US Army is sort of OK, I just have a problem with the cavalry gold. I want Infantry blue. I suppose others might prefer their branch colors. But as far as I'm concerned the entire Army exists just to get infantrymen on the objective, without the Infantry every other branch has no purpose. I'd be happy with an Army tartan where Infantry blue dominates.