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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Scout26 on April 01, 2011, 08:01:00 AM
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http://www.army.mil/-news/2011/04/01/54202-stetson-hat-to-be-new-army-standard-headgear/index.html?ref=home-headline-title0
I can't wait to hear the hue and cry on this one.... ;)
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Would be better then the beret.
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Would be better then the beret.
Amen.
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Would be better then the beret.
Amen.
Would someone PLEASE explain to me how one of the most useless pieces of headgear ever devised became a "respected" piece of a military uniform . . . considering it comes from a bunch of cheese-eating surrender monkeys? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rJAw-fuYHk
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My guess would be something like this: Prior to WWI, the beret was a dress uniform item only. Then, in the mud of Flanders, a French officer removed his helmet and put on his beret because Les Allemands ne coup pas merde! and everyone else followed suit.
After their buddies got shot in the head repeatedly, they went back to helmets, but the image stuck.
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Ummm . . .
Press release on April 1st . . .
=D
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You know somewhere, some Cav nerd is reading that, not knowing it's an april fools joke..
And absolutely RAGING! [ar15] [ar15] [ar15]
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I actually sent it to my Ops Officer, an ex-cav O-3. He's PISSED. Apparentlly he's screaming in his office and has already called me twice and our SGM once. He wants to know how to file a congressional complaint.
We figure we'll have to tell him before the weekend.
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I particularly like the picture of the hat badly photo shopped onto the dog so he matches his handler.
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I particularly like the picture of the hat badly photo shopped onto the dog so he matches his handler.
I didn't even notice the slideshow. I love the general with the hat shopped on.
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I mentioned this to a fellow Army veteran today. He completely bought it.
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Got a good chuckle out of it. Especially now being in a Cav unit.
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Such headgear is more practical than a beret, joke or no joke.
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No arguement roo_ster, but my idea would be PC for work; Stetson, beret or bus drivers cap for dress.
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Somebody remember this next April and put together a similar joke with the sombrero as the new duty headgear for the border patrol.
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Somebody remember this next April and put together a similar joke with the sombrero as the new duty headgear for the border patrol.
And a serape for the dress uniform?
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No arguement roo_ster, but my idea would be PC for work; Stetson, beret or bus drivers cap for dress.
PC - patrol cap? We had another name for them. Soft cap, maybe?
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PC - patrol cap? We had another name for them. Soft cap, maybe?
Yes on Soft Cap. More likely to be called a PC now as much as a Soft Cap.
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Somebody remember this next April and put together a similar joke with the sombrero as the new duty headgear for the border patrol.
Or Navy getting a bicorn.
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Stand_watie
Somebody remember this next April and put together a similar joke with the sombrero as the new duty headgear for the border patrol.
That would be funny if it weren't so close to the truth.
I woke up this morning looking at a sign I posted on my mirror last night:
Today is April the Oneth. Don't forget this, Terry!
Mainly becuase I'm normally pretty gullible. (Did you know that the word "gullible" isn't even a real word?)
Terry, 230RN
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I particularly like the picture of the hat badly photo shopped onto the dog so he matches his handler.
I totally missed that. Just saw it on fb earlier, and was amused enough to "like" it. Off to look at the whole thing...
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Such headgear is more practical than a beret, joke or no joke.
Not to mention the psychological warfare aspects of it...
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Or Navy getting a bicorn.
That would have been a huge improvement over that stupid freaking dixie cup POS we wore.
And don't get me started on white dress uniforms it is not humanly possible to keep a white uniform clean on a freaking submarine unless you never take it out of the bag.
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That would have been a huge improvement over that stupid freaking dixie cup POS we wore.
And don't get me started on white dress uniforms it is not humanly possible to keep a white uniform clean on a freaking submarine unless you never take it out of the bag.
FTFY.
Doesn't matter where you are. Take it out, and you get it dirty. My clean dress whites got marked during the walk from my berthing to the brow (up one ladder, forward through the hangar bay) on the carrier after one Med deployment.
And yes, I agree completely about the Dixie cup - I avoided it to the maximum extent possible. Command ball caps FTW (and as stupid as the bell-bottoms were, the dungaree uniforms that went with them were STILL more comfortable and practical than any of the whites).
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I actually sent it to my Ops Officer, an ex-cav O-3. He's PISSED. Apparentlly he's screaming in his office and has already called me twice and our SGM once. He wants to know how to file a congressional complaint.
We figure we'll have to tell him before the weekend.
Your Ops Officer owes me a new keyboard....and some monitor cleaner..... :laugh:
Such headgear is more practical than a beret, joke or no joke.
Agreed....esp. if they put some light steel or titanium in the brim....like Odd Job in Goldfinger.... ;)
Amen.
Would someone PLEASE explain to me how one of the most useless pieces of headgear ever devised became a "respected" piece of a military uniform . . .
Maybe not the most useless.....I've always thought the UN troops should wear a fez for that very reason.... =D
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Maybe not the most useless.....I've always thought the UN troops should wear a fez for that very reason....
The fez at least makes you look taller. The traditional berets (of Spain, France, etc) were wide-brimmed. While the .mil beret is more svelte than those, it only serves as a minor head-warmer/sunburn protector for the scalp. The piss-cutter (don't know the proper name) was similarly useless.
This should be the issue hat:
(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi360.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Foo42%2FALatchley%2FVmackensenHAT.jpg&hash=d748f5caccb5639c93db475f249aa8f90b7ec16e)
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The piss-cutter (don't know the proper name) was similarly useless.
Garrison cap.
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The piss-cutter (don't know the proper name) was similarly useless.
Garrison cap.
The Navy garrison cap was substantially heavier material wise than the army and airforce versions I saw at my old command. Much better for ensuring noggin warmth in winter weather (also I preferred it than the dixie cup when wearing winter blues).
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I always wondered why something with ear and neck protection from the sun was not part of the standard cap in garrison. I guess skin cancer shows up well after a soldier ETS's and the Army didn't consult their dermatologists for uniform requirements.
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The Navy garrison cap
That's just wrong.
Khaki's and cutlasses for Chiefs are a great idea though!
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I always wondered why something with ear and neck protection from the sun was not part of the standard cap in garrison. I guess skin cancer shows up well after a soldier ETS's and the Army didn't consult their dermatologists for uniform requirements.
I went through Navy boot in Orlando, in August. Ball caps do nothing to keep the sun off of your ears. I don't think any of the fair skinned members of my company didn't have crusty, bleeding, burned ears after the first week. I guess sunblock hadn't been invented by 1980.
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I always wondered why something with ear and neck protection from the sun was not part of the standard cap in garrison. I guess skin cancer shows up well after a soldier ETS's and the Army didn't consult their dermatologists for uniform requirements.
New headgear for pigment challenged recruits...maybe we can get the ACLU and NAACP to back us on this...
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I always wondered why something with ear and neck protection from the sun was not part of the standard cap in garrison. I guess skin cancer shows up well after a soldier ETS's and the Army didn't consult their dermatologists for uniform requirements.
Don't forget the unwritten uniform requirements. Like how the old BDU winter PC had ear flaps but you could never wear them because it didn't look squared away.
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New headgear for pigment challenged recruits...maybe we can get the ACLU and NAACP to back us on this...
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Those things work amazingly well for hot and cold weather. But I think his 'stache is outside of regulation length.
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Why not one of these?......
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http://www.hauntyourhome.com/images_product/normal/Rubies/H9.jpg (http://www.hauntyourhome.com/images_product/normal/Rubies/H9.jpg)
....it's French, so it's got to be good, right?..... =|
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Don't ask, don't tell.
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This should be the issue hat:
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Soooo, is that supposed to be an open vulva on the top of the hat?
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Soooo, is that supposed to be an open vulva on the top of the hat?
Hmmmm....just the thing for a lonely soldier.... :laugh:
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Soooo, is that supposed to be an open vulva on the top of the hat?
Could be. Or perhaps he was just an early Obama supporter.