A jacket and pants. The Battle Dress Uniform (BDU) is a camouflaged combat uniform that was used by the United States Armed Forces as their standard combat uniform from the early 1980s to the mid-2000s. Since then, it has been replaced or supplanted in every branch of the U.S. Armed Forces. In October 2019 the U.S. Army fully switched to Operational Camouflage Pattern (OCP).