Mark 89 Camouflage Smock

The Mark 89 Camouflage Smock was a piece of equipment developed by the in . Designed in response to the expansion of the Colonial Defense Training Initiative in 2489, the smock was designed to be used by the many newly formed units with olive drab trousers and a tan T-shirt as an interim uniform until they could be issued with standard-issue militia battledress. The camouflage pattern was one reminiscent of the Army's flecktarn uniforms used during the . This was due to the fact that there were still large stocks of fabric in the pattern left over from the conflict in storage, with the new standard two-tone pattern just coming into service.
The Mark 89 was used until , by which time most Colonial Militia units had received the new uniforms. The remaining smocks were released to the public as military surplus, with a great deal of the woodland version coming into use by the , particularly on the colony of . On the colony, it later became standard issue among both Victorian Independent Military combat troops and rebel militias, netting them the nickname 'spotted hounds' among pro- fighters, a name that stuck with rebel soldiers on the planet even after the fall of the VIS in .
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