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  • I agreed to put them on over my battle-dress until we reached the railway station and then I would discard them.

    John Keay 2010

  • BDUs is military shorthand for the battle-dress uniform.

    Military Girls Conference Set - SpouseBUZZ 2009

  • We put on our overalls over our battle-dress and picked up a barrow and away we went, I pushing the barrow in the gutter and Jock sweeping and shovelling it into the barrow.

    John Keay 2010

  • Rani was skinny, in full battle-dress uniform, a black beret on his head, with a very narrow beard and mustache.

    A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010

  • His uniform had changed over the twenty years he served, from green khakis to the woodland camouflage BDU battle-dress uniform to the desert-sand BDUs, but it was always the same Army and it was a life I was fully accustomed to.

    I’m Still Standing SHOSHANA JOHNSON 2010

  • More on the Sisterhood of the Traveling BDUs battle-dress uniformshere.

    Sisterhood of the Traveling BDUs « Dating Jesus 2009

  • They ` re wearing battle-dress over body armor in Ramadi, Kirkuk, Mosul.

    CNN Transcript May 2, 2008 2008

  • They ` re wearing battle-dress over body armor in Ramadi, Kirkuk, Mosul.

    CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2008 2008

  • They ` re wearing battle-dress over body armor in Ramadi, Kirkuk, Mosul.

    CNN Transcript May 26, 2008 2008

  • This is screamingly funny video of Counter-Strike players in battle-dress running around with fake guns, pretending to be Counter-Strike characters -- they fall over and their legs continue to run, their guns are fixed at shoulder height and move with them, etc.

    - Boing Boing 2005

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