berets?

[Docman]

Irish military

All troops wear the same capbadge (Army, Navy and Aircorp) (Officers, SM & BQ wear a darken version of same capbadge - you can see them coming)


Navy wear Black beret as work dress
Air Corp wear Forage caps or Peaked caps.

Regular Army wear Black Beret with red backing to Capbadge
Reserve wear Green beret with bright green backing
Reserve officers wear a Green Glengarry with green ribbon for formal wear.
ARW (Special forces) wear Dark Green beret with bright green backing.
MPs wear bright red beret with no backing
Apprentices wear Black beret with Blue backing
Cavalry units wear a Green Glengarry with black ribbon.

http://www.military.ie/images/army_rank.pdf

[Marsh]

Israel:
Bright Green - Nahal infantry brigade
Red - Paratroopers and some SF (not all of them tough)
Brown - Golany infantry brigade
Purple - Givaty infantry brigade
Dark blue - Navy
Dark gray - airforce
Black - Armored corps and some infantry battelions
Very dark green - Border gaurd
Dark green - Intellegence corps
Light blue - Artillery corps
Blue - Army police
Silver - Engeniring corps
****ty ugly green - The basic barret that everyone gets when they are recruited.

Hi RP,
I am old enough to remember when IDF paras wore an excellent, British style, maroon beret before adopting the awful red beret they wear now. sigh.. I can also remember the dispute about having to wear berets. or being able to cary them under your epaulettes..

P.S. Isn't the beret for IDF combat engineers still light grey?

cheers
Marsh

[EsoognomEhT]

Darkblue(looks black until you see one next to an actual Black beret)- Support Arms such as RLC, REME, RE

otc !


And lets not forget the sand of the regiment, the US may have copied it now, but theres really only one.

[digrar]

Apart from the Australian one and the Kiwi's one and the one the Rhodies had ect ect.

[AirZone]

Israel:
Bright Green - Nahal infantry brigade
Red - Paratroopers and some SF (not all of them tough)
Brown - Golany infantry brigade
Purple - Givaty infantry brigade
Dark blue - Navy
Dark gray - airforce
Black - Armored corps and some infantry battelions
Very dark green - Border gaurd
Dark green - Intellegence corps
Light blue - Artillery corps
Blue - Army police
Silver - Engeniring corps
****ty ugly green - The basic barret that everyone gets when they are recruited.

Hi RP,
I am old enough to remember when IDF paras wore an excellent, British style, maroon beret before adopting the awful red beret they wear now. sigh.. I can also remember the dispute about having to wear berets. or being able to cary them under your epaulettes..

P.S. Isn't the beret for IDF combat engineers still light grey?

cheers
Marsh

more silver than light grey..

[Q]

Norway

Black:armoured
green: infantry,artilliry, homeguard, medic's etc... in Southern norway
Blue: same as those listed above infantry etc... in North Norway
Red: military police any branch
Dark blue: Navy
emmerald green: Telemarks battaljonen.
Wine red: Parachute rangers. (fallskjerm jegere)
and a green greyish beret i don't know what the color is called. Border guards at the russian border...

[simple jumper]

For the Canadian Army

Green - Everyone(unless your in one of the units/MOCs listed below)
Maroon - Soldiers in a Jump Company(Airborne)
Black - Armour
Red - Military Police

forgot:
bright orange - SARTECH

[croberts038]

i've always been curious....when did the beret become standard issue for most countries, after ww2?

and where did it originate. obviously france, but when did it become military attire?

[baboon6]

AFAIK the French Chasseurs Alpins were the first unit to start wearing berets, I don't when but it was certainly before WW1. After WW1 the British Army's Tank Corps adopted the black beret as their head dress. Use of the beret expanded greatly during WW2, first to all British armoured units, then infantry motor battalions (khaki), then airborne forces (maroon) and commandos (green), and eventually most of the army. The Commonwealth armies took their cue from Britain and adopted berets too. So did the exiled European armies who were largely clothed by Britain ie. Dutch, Poles, Belgians, Greeks etc, and most of them retained the beret post-war.

[Bulabash]

Probably because it was cheap, I personally dont like the beret but prefer the boonie hat, but our bosses dont like that as it doesnt look nice on parades

[Icarus1]

Probably because it was cheap, I personally dont like the beret but prefer the boonie hat, but our bosses dont like that as it doesnt look nice on parades

We use berets for ceremonial stuff and official things. In service we use normal hats or boonies.

[Jabroni]

Who would rather use Forage Caps instead of Berets?


Or Kepi's?
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[Roy Batty]

We use berets for ceremonial stuff and official things. In service we use normal hats or boonies.

We wear berets all the time while in garrison. We only wear bonnie hats in the field. Wrapping that freakin wool beret around your melon in August heat sucks! Wish we could get issued a better daily use cap.

[Yeoman]

I like my beret.
course I've got a sweet VRI capbadge and get to walk around the base and think I'm hard.
forage cap *shudder* they just look so terrible to me. honestly (not to sound rude to the rest of the world), I see canada, england, and maybe another country or two that truly makes the beret look nice when they wear it.
maybe that's just me though.
Greg

[maple.leaf]

Berets all the way!

Garrison caps (or kunt caps as we called them) are fugly. make you look like an ice cream or hot dog seller.

After WWII the beret became standard headgear for just about all of NATO too - only the US held out, but now even they have capitulated to wooly fashion.

Even the Russians now make wide-spread use of the beret.

The fugliest berets in the world are the one's that you see the Pakistanis, the Indians and the Palestinians wearing - they just look stupid and mis-shapen.