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USAF or USCG garrison cap?


trubia26
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Hello my friends...I have this cap and I am not sure the branch that belongs to...

 

 

 

It has the USAF blue colour, but it has no piping...so I am not sure if is an early or transitional USAF cap or an USCG Bender blues garrison cap...

 

 

 

The tag has the FSN markings...so that confused me more...because I was told that FSN run from 1953 to 1973,and Bender blues came into 1974...maybe one of the first Blue bender caps that USCG made in that colour???

 

Someone can help me please? Thank you!

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It's Coast Guard. DOT CG= Department of Transportation, Coast Guard. USCG was under DOT till 9/11 attacks when it was transfered to the newly created Dept. of Homeland Security. Air Force flight caps will give color shade and say it's AF on the label.

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  • 2 weeks later...
RustyCanteen

This isn't the best image to compare the shade used by the USAF during the same era, but it should do.

 

 

 

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Notice the contract tag clearly includes USAF as part of the nomenclature.

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Thanks a lot to all of you!!!I think that if it has FSN markings it is one of the first Bender blues caps made for the USCG...dont you think that?

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