Camo Shorts
US Military • Foreign • Urban • BDU & Paratrooper Cuts
The complete camouflage-pattern shorts catalog at Keep Shooting — 18 SKUs spanning every major US military camo era (woodland M81, 6-color desert “Chocolate Chip,” tri-color desert, ACU digital, Vietnam tiger stripe), the French Army F2 woodland, plus Rothco's urban / civilian patterns (city camo, midnight digital, white, red). Most are BDU six-pocket cargo cut; the Vintage Paratrooper Tiger Stripe offers the alternative wider-leg WWII airborne-style cut. Standard length, long length, original period-correct patterns and modernized reproductions — the broadest camo-pattern shorts inventory on the web.
Camo Shorts at Keep Shooting
Camouflage shorts are summer fatigue, range wear, yard work, and re-enactor kit all rolled into one garment, and the camo-pattern catalog at Keep Shooting spans every major military camouflage era from Vietnam-issue tiger stripe through Cold-War woodland, Desert Storm chocolate chip, the short-lived ACU digital experiment, and the modern urban / law-enforcement patterns. The 18-SKU set is organized below by pattern lineage and country of origin rather than by manufacturer, because for most buyers the question that matters is which pattern they want to wear — the manufacturer (Rothco for the bulk of camo BDU shorts, supplemented by smaller suppliers for the rare period-correct patterns) is secondary.
For shoppers focused on the cut rather than the pattern, see our BDU Shorts catalog — same SKUs plus the solid-color Rothco BDU Combat Shorts line (black, OD, khaki, coyote, navy) for non-camouflage applications.
US Military Camo — Vietnam Through ACU
Six pattern families cover the canonical US military camo lineage from the early 1960s through the 2014 transition to OCP / Multicam. Tiger stripe is the earliest — never officially adopted by the regular US military but worn extensively by Special Forces, MACV-SOG, and joint ARVN operations in Vietnam — and we stock both the period-correct Original Vietnam Tiger Stripe with the proper stripe geometry and the modernized Rothco Long Length Tiger Stripe adaptation. Woodland M81 (1981–2004) is the most-worn US camo pattern in history — available in standard (Woodland Camo BDU Shorts) and long length (Long Length Woodland). The desert lineage covers the 6-Color Desert “Chocolate Chip” (Desert Storm era, 1985–1990), the simplified post-1990 tri-color desert succession, the Desert Digital pixel variant, the Rothco Desert Digital Long Length, and the Original Desert Tiger Stripe (the never-officially-adopted desert adaptation of the Vietnam tiger stripe). ACU digital (UCP) covers the 2004–2014 Universal Camouflage Pattern period — the ACU Digital Camo BDU Shorts cover the gray-green pixel pattern that was widely criticized in field use and eventually replaced by Multicam.
Foreign Military Camo — French F2
The French Camo F2 Shorts carry the canonical 1991–2010 French Army woodland pattern — visually similar to the US M81 woodland but with a smaller-scale, higher-contrast brush-stroke geometry that French uniform historians describe as the country's most distinctive Cold-War-era camo. F2 was the standard French Army issue through the late twentieth century into the early 2010s before being replaced by the digital CCE pattern. Worth distinguishing from the US woodland M81 for re-enactors building French Army impressions or for shooters who want a less-common woodland variant in their rotation.
Urban & Civilian Camo — Rothco Special Patterns
Beyond military-issue pattern reproductions, Rothco produces a set of civilian-market camo patterns that have no formal military adoption but serve the law-enforcement, private-security, and casual-wear markets. City Camo is the urban-environment metropolitan blue-gray pattern designed to blend with concrete and glass facades — available in standard length, long length, and the digital City Digital pixel variant. Specialty colors round out the civilian range: Midnight Digital (low-light blue-black pixel), Black Camo (subdued black-on-black pattern), Red Camo (high-visibility specialty pattern), and White Camo (winter / snow-environment pattern). These sit outside the military-historical lineage but provide the cargo cut and BDU construction in pattern colors the issue catalog never offered.
BDU Cut vs Vintage Paratrooper Cut
The catalog spans two distinct cargo-shorts cuts. The BDU cut — the dominant cut for 17 of the 18 SKUs in this category — matches the issue Battle Dress Uniform pant geometry: six pockets (two front slash, two rear button-flap, two cargo flap), straight-leg fit, length cut at or just above the knee in standard and 3–4 inches longer in the long-length variant. The Vintage Paratrooper cut is the alternative offering styled after WWII US airborne fatigue shorts: similar six-pocket cargo configuration but with a wider, more relaxed leg cut and reinforced bartack stitching at the cargo pocket stress points reflecting the period-correct construction. We stock the Tiger Stripe Vintage Paratrooper Cargo Shorts as the camo entry in the Paratrooper line; for solid-color Paratrooper shorts in OD, khaki, and black, see the broader shorts parent catalog.
Pairing & Cross-References
For the cargo-cut deep-dive (including the solid-color Rothco BDU Combat Shorts line and the Tru-Spec NyCo ripstop premium tier), see our companion BDU Shorts catalog. For matching full-length camo pants in the same patterns, see our military surplus pants catalog (which includes the Rothco Vintage Paratrooper full-length pants in woodland, tiger stripe, and woodland digital). For matching tops, see our military surplus shirts and jackets catalogs. The hats and caps catalog rounds out the head-wear matching each pattern. For full-kit Rothco coverage beyond shorts, see the Rothco brand catalog. For Vietnam-impression builds, the military surplus parent has the period-correct US Army Vietnam-era kit (M1 helmets, ALICE LBE, accessories) to round out tiger stripe impressions.
Frequently Asked Questions — Camo Shorts
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