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Current and Finished Projects => Profiles and Pixels => Topic started by: SebastianP on December 25, 2018, 05:30:56 AM

Title: Which green (and white) do the US Border patrol use on their vehicles?
Post by: SebastianP on December 25, 2018, 05:30:56 AM

I noticed while researching the color scheme for the US Coast Guard that the US Border Patrol also uses a similar scheme, but with a green stripe rather than the orange and blue of the USCG. Why was I researching the USCG color scheme? Because this:

(https://i.imgur.com/Fz9BLs1.png)

I'm not saying I'll put the Border Patrol scheme on a warship (but I totally will...), but I'd kind of like to know what colors they do use so I can put them on other stuff, like helicopters (the USBP would probably *love* some kitted out Blackhawks for example)...

Title: Re: Which green (and white) do the US Border patrol use on their vehicles?
Post by: Adriaticus on December 27, 2018, 06:42:46 AM

I was a riverine operator in the US Navy about a dozen years ago, and used to interact with the Customs & Border Protection (CBP) riverine guys from time to time. Back then, they used a green Coast Guard-type slash on their hulls like this:

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7858/46426557622_8a20da0bcc_c.jpg)

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4887/46431518452_beca904c35_b.jpg)

Source: US Customs & Border Protection website

That seems to have changed sometime after 2014 to a wide blue, narrow red stripe:

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4830/46426558382_56deb4a5b8_b.jpg)
Source: US Customs & Border Protection official photo via Wikimedia.org

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4886/45755098154_3324a1f296_b.jpg)
Source: US Customs & Border Protection Info sheet: "Interceptor Class All-Weather 33-Foot SAFE Boat"

V/r
Jim