Cotton wore the Army Combat Uniform, which features a digitized camouflage ... a checkpoint on the outskirts of Kirkuk, a city in Iraq about 150 miles north of Baghdad. French confirmed to Reuters ...

It’s become part of the tradition of the long-running rivalry game that each team wears special one-off uniforms for the game ...

and a spokesperson for Cotton said he never wore the battle dress uniform in the picture during his time in Iraq. An Army spokesperson was unable to identify the soldier in the photograph shared ...