The US Army is abandoning the beret, after a failed 10-year experiment

[somone]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110613/pl_afp/usmilitaryuniform

In US Army, the beret is out and the cap is back

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Army is 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, US Army spokesman Colonel Tom Collins said Monday.

The move came after outgoing Army chief of staff, General 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...

[B-Stupid]

1. Berets

don't scare anyone....

[KeepItReal]

2. Good riddance. Let the Rangers go back to Black.

eom

[Paladin]

3. Glad To Hear It. Those Berets Never Looked Right. (n/t)

[lumpy]

21. Right. They look like half-cooked floppy pancakes.

ugly

[NeedleCast]

4. Best Thing That's happened in 10 years

They were phasing that atrocious beret in about the time I was getting out. I had to wear it for about three months on my recall in 2004 and hated it.

I still have both my patrol cap and boonie cap. Tossed by beret about 15 seconds after I came off my recall.

[WatsonT]

5. Berets are kind of a useless headgear

Implementing their use made little sense in the first place.

[Arctic Dave]

6. Yeah that's it. That's what is really on their mind.

More dog and pony bullshit from command.

[originalpckelly]

7. "Am I going to paint a picture or blow your head off?

Maybe I'll do both!"

[RB TexLa]

8. They honestly had a fucking concern about what they had to wear for headgear?

how could any one care?

[originalpckelly]

10. A beret is a useless piece of junk.

At least a cap will keep some of your face protected from the sun.

[NeedleCast]

16. Because they are in the Army?

And would rather have comfortable, functional headgear instead of that f'ing beret.

[Cid_B]

17. Ignorant...

[JVS]

9. Yet the 10 year war rolls on.

[BOG PERSON]

13. fashions fade, war is eternal

[w8liftinglady]

11. For some reason, Operation Helmet still exists.

maybe THIS needs to be where the Army focuses its collective attention


http://www.operation-helmet.org/

[UTUSN]

12. I'm from another Branch, but nobody wanted that.

[awoke_in_2003]

14. In a side story...

while most soldiers said they dislike the beret, they seem to have gotten an unnatural hankering for croissants. :)

[woo me with science]

15. Good. nt

[provis99]

18. the beret is French anyways.

Does it make the troops feel more like surrendering when they wear it?

One thing I really don't understand is Germany's Bundeswehr adopting the beret. It just looks WRONG; un-German, somehow.



They used to wear the very cool mountaineers' field cap. More "German".

[trumad]

19. Well---the 82nd Airborne Paratrooper loved his red beret....

When they put beret's on legs, it pretty much made them useless.

[Initech]

20. Why dont they abandon Iraq after a failed 10 year experiment?

[RagAss]

22. Outstanding !!!