Ghillie suit

From the Call of Duty Wiki

"Stay low and move slowly, we'll be impossible to spot in our ghillie suits."

— Cpt. Macmillan

A Ghillie Suit is a type of camouflage clothing designed to resemble heavy foliage and minimize the wearer's distinguished outline against the environment. Snipers and hunters wear a ghillie suits to blend into the surroundings when they feel it is important for them to camouflage and hide themselves from enemies or their targets.

Typically, ghillie suits consist of a net or cloth garment covered in loose strips of cloth or twine, sometimes even made to look like leaves and twigs. Although ghillie suits are constructed before a mission, snipers are often trained to improvise by weaving leaves and other natural foliage in the field into the nets of their ghillie suits.

Because of the nature of the human eye, the wearer of the ghillie suit has to stay completely still, and usually on the ground to minimize outlines, otherwise the wearer is easily seen, even at a distance or when moving slowly.

[edit] In Game

In Call of Duty 4's single player campaign, Lt. Price and Cpt. MacMillan use ghillie suits during the missions All Ghillied Up and One Shot, One Kill.

In Call of Duty 4's multiplayer, players that equip sniper rifles in their primary weapon slot on maps that have tall grass or woodland terrain, such as Overgrown, Downpour and Creek, will be able to use ghillie suits.

In Call of Duty: World at War's multiplayer, players equipped with a bolt action rifle to their primary weapon slot will get a primitive ghillie suit if they are on the Russian or Japanese team. Americans only get a few leaves on their shirts and Germans get a few leaves on their helmets and wear short sleeve shirts.

In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Special Ops, there will be an enemy on the level Estate Takedown that will wear a Ghillie suit while taking potshots at you with their sniper rifle. However, after doing so, they will change their position, as to keep their location a secret.