Posted on 06/14/2011 10:41:17 AM PDT by STARWISE
The U.S. Army said Monday that it was abandoning the beret, after a failed 10-year experiment.
The black beret, which proved deeply unpopular with American soldiers, will be replaced by a patrol cap for everyday wear, U.S. Army spokesman Col. Tom Collins said.
The move came after outgoing Army chief of staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, asked the Army's sergeant major "to go out and talk to soldiers across the force and see what was on their minds," Collins told AFP. "One of the things that soldiers consistently brought up was the desire to wear the patrol cap as part of their duty uniform," he said.
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One soldier put it more bluntly.
"I hate wearing a wet sock on my head," Chief Warrant Officer Mark Vino, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, told the Army Times. "Plus it makes head/skin break out."
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yeah, but 95% of the females still don’t know how to wear a beret, and they still complain about “what it does to my haaaaiiiirrr”. part of it has to di with being more concerned about their hair (and really pushing the limit) than with looking like a soldier. If they want to be fashionable, they’re in the wrong place - the military is not (supposed to be) a freaking jobs program,
For that matter, a significant portion of the males don’t know or givadam about how to properly wear or care for the beret...
Actually, Armor troops had the black one before the Rangers did...pretty much a worldwide thing, that.
given some of the latest policy changes, that style may be in the works even as we FReep...
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