The Dickey Betts Band, including Warren Haynes, was also formed during this time and released the album Pattern Disruptive in 1988.

The period saw a generational change in weapons and equipment on issue to ADGs ; jungle green uniforms were replaced by the Disruptive Pattern Combat Uniform ( DPCU ), the L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle ( SLR ), M16 and F1 Sub-Machine Gun were replaced by the F88 Austeyr assault rifle and Vietnam-era radios were replaced with the Raven series of VHF and HF sets.

Following the introduction of the Combat Soldier 95 ( CS95 ) clothing system of Disruptive Pattern Material ( DPM ) this is worn for most day-to-day business replacing the old ' working ' uniform of green Lightweight Trousers and Shirt / Jersey, albeit that these are still used as ' Barrack Dress ' by some office based personnel.

In 1942 the Admiralty Intermediate Disruptive Pattern came into use, followed in 1944 by the Admiralty Standard Schemes.

* Disruptive Pattern Material ( e. g. SBD and SDU )

* Disruptive Pattern Material-standard British Army camouflage until 2010.

Currently, Australian troops wear a camouflage uniform called Disruptive Pattern Combat Uniform ( more commonly called DPCU or Auscam ), shaded to suit Australia's terrain.

There are three variations, the original design which is most commonly used, another for use in desert environments, called Disruptive Pattern Desert Uniform ( DPDU ) and a third for use by OPFOR units in training exercises.

The new Canadian Disruptive Pattern uniform is commonly called " CADPAT " to diffentiate it from the previous uniform called " combat " The term combat now refers to the old monochrome ( single color ) combat uniform.

Betts returned to his solo career, performing live at smaller venues and releasing the album Pattern Disruptive in 1989.

* Pattern Disruptive ( 1989 ) ( Dickey Betts Band )

The Disruptive Pattern Material ( DPM ) version ( 95 Pattern / Soldier 95 ) has been made since about 1992.

With Matt Abts on drums and Johnny Neel on keyboards the now formed Dickey Betts Band released the 1988 album Pattern Disruptive.

* Disruptive Pattern Camouflage, an Australian military camouflage pattern, see Disruptive Pattern Combat Uniform