Author Topic: Okay I wonder how many will fall for it. (Read 11078 times)

Scout26 · « **on:** April 01, 2011, 08:01:00 AM »

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....

dogmush · « **Reply #1 on:** April 01, 2011, 08:09:00 AM »

Would be better then the beret.

Devonai · « **Reply #2 on:** April 01, 2011, 08:23:39 AM »

Quote from: dogmush on April 01, 2011, 08:09:00 AM

Would be better then the beret.

Amen.

HankB · « **Reply #3 on:** April 01, 2011, 08:42:23 AM »

Quote from: Devonai on April 01, 2011, 08:23:39 AM

Quote from: dogmush on April 01, 2011, 08:09:00 AM
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

Devonai · « **Reply #4 on:** April 01, 2011, 08:52:38 AM »

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.

Seenterman · « **Reply #5 on:** April 01, 2011, 10:07:44 AM »

Ummm . . .

Press release on April 1st . . .

Fitz · « **Reply #6 on:** April 01, 2011, 10:09:04 AM »

You know somewhere, some Cav nerd is reading that, not knowing it's an april fools joke..

And absolutely RAGING!

dogmush · « **Reply #7 on:** April 01, 2011, 10:38:37 AM »

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.

RaspberrySurprise · « **Reply #8 on:** April 01, 2011, 10:47:52 AM »

I particularly like the picture of the hat badly photo shopped onto the dog so he matches his handler.

makattak · « **Reply #9 on:** April 01, 2011, 11:08:33 AM »

Quote from: RaspberrySurprise on April 01, 2011, 10:47:52 AM

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.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #10 on:** April 01, 2011, 05:40:08 PM »

I mentioned this to a fellow Army veteran today. He completely bought it.

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #11 on:** April 01, 2011, 05:45:05 PM »

Got a good chuckle out of it. Especially now being in a Cav unit.

roo_ster · « **Reply #12 on:** April 01, 2011, 06:03:21 PM »

Such headgear is more practical than a beret, joke or no joke.

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 01, 2011, 06:06:28 PM »

No arguement roo_ster, but my idea would be PC for work; Stetson, beret or bus drivers cap for dress.

Stand_watie · « **Reply #14 on:** April 01, 2011, 06:48:49 PM »

Somebody remember this next April and put together a similar joke with the sombrero as the new duty headgear for the border patrol.

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #15 on:** April 01, 2011, 07:15:47 PM »

Quote from: Stand_watie on April 01, 2011, 06:48:49 PM

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?

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #16 on:** April 01, 2011, 07:27:30 PM »

Quote from: wmenorr67 on April 01, 2011, 06:06:28 PM

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?

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #17 on:** April 01, 2011, 07:49:12 PM »

Quote from: The artist formerly known as fistful on April 01, 2011, 07:27:30 PM

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.

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #18 on:** April 01, 2011, 08:01:32 PM »

Quote from: Stand_watie on April 01, 2011, 06:48:49 PM

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.

230RN · « **Reply #19 on:** April 01, 2011, 08:46:52 PM »

Stand_watie

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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.

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:

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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

BridgeRunner · « **Reply #20 on:** April 01, 2011, 09:06:57 PM »

Quote from: RaspberrySurprise on April 01, 2011, 10:47:52 AM

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...

Regolith · « **Reply #21 on:** April 01, 2011, 10:23:24 PM »

Quote from: roo_ster on April 01, 2011, 06:03:21 PM

Such headgear is more practical than a beret, joke or no joke.

Not to mention the psychological warfare aspects of it...

RoadKingLarry · « **Reply #22 on:** April 01, 2011, 11:27:54 PM »

Quote from: bluestarlizzard on April 01, 2011, 08:01:32 PM

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.

erictank · « **Reply #23 on:** April 02, 2011, 01:47:29 AM »

Quote from: RoadKingLarry on April 01, 2011, 11:27:54 PM

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).

seeker_two · « **Reply #24 on:** April 02, 2011, 11:24:09 AM »

Quote from: dogmush on April 01, 2011, 10:38:37 AM

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.....

Quote from: roo_ster on April 01, 2011, 06:03:21 PM

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....

Quote from: HankB on April 01, 2011, 08:42:23 AM

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....

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Author Topic: Okay I wonder how many will fall for it. (Read 11078 times)