seanmc1114 Posted September 21, 2014 Share #101 Posted September 21, 2014 Light blue beret worn by members of the 1st Battalion 5th cavalry 1st Cavalry Division early 70's when stationed at Fort Hood after returning from Vietnam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 21, 2014 Share #102 Posted September 21, 2014 Light blue beret worn by members of the 1st Battalion 5th cavalry 1st Cavalry Division early 70's when stationed at Fort Hood after returning from Vietnam. Thats a new one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 26, 2014 Share #103 Posted September 26, 2014 Here's a Rasberry Beret nice flash eh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12thengr Posted September 26, 2014 Share #104 Posted September 26, 2014 Light blue beret worn by members of the 1st Battalion 5th cavalry 1st Cavalry Division early 70's when stationed at Fort Hood after returning from Vietnam. I've been waiting for this post; My brother returned from Ft. Hood after a stint in the 'Nam' early 1970's. He had one of these light blue berets. And no, He no longer has it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted September 29, 2014 Share #105 Posted September 29, 2014 I guess this the infamous United Nations blue beret. Worn during the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment's Bosnia deployment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted September 29, 2014 Share #106 Posted September 29, 2014 Here's a 101st Airborne Division soldier in Vietnam in 1970 wearing what appears to be a tan beret. I can't read what his scroll says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted September 30, 2014 Share #107 Posted September 30, 2014 Airborne Chaplain (Major) Richard Pace wearing his Christian Chaplain branch insignia on the flash of his maroon beret. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted September 30, 2014 Share #108 Posted September 30, 2014 Chaplain (Capt.) Jeff Struecker, a chaplain with the 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Benning, wearing his Christian Chaplain branch insignia on his tan beret. Note the Combat Infantryman Badge he earned as a Ranger NCO in Somalia. http://www.christianindex.org/4501.article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted September 30, 2014 Share #109 Posted September 30, 2014 I'm not sure if this is a green or black beret with the Special Operations Command flash being worn by Chaplain (Captain) Peter Hofman. According to this story, he is the only chaplain in the history of the U.S. Army to earn both Ranger and Special Forces tabs. http://www.kuyper.edu/News_Events/News/2014/Kuyper_alumnus_makes_U_S__Army_history/ Beret.Special Forces.Chaplain.bmp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted September 30, 2014 Share #110 Posted September 30, 2014 Here's an interesting one. Rabbi Zalman Lipskier wearing the Jewish Chaplain branch insignia on his black beret with red flash worn by many State Defense Forces. He is the first Jewish Chaplain in Georgia’s military history to serve in the Georgia State Defense Force and Army, Air and National Guard. http://crownheights.info/shlichus/10836/chassidic-rabbi-first-ever-jewish-chaplain-to-georgias-state-defense-force/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 22, 2014 Share #111 Posted October 22, 2014 Sp4 Robert D. Law wearing a black beret with a LRRP tab and 52nd Infantry DUI. He served with the 1st Infantry Division's Company F 52nd Infantry and was killed in action on February 22, 1969 while serving Company I, 75th Infantry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPage Posted October 23, 2014 Share #112 Posted October 23, 2014 I was in Alaska for only a short time after LTC Schwartzkopf arrived. We had not been authorized berets by the time I left in Feb. 1975. The oval was a Brigade oval and anyone on jump status with the Brigade wore the oval. My Battalion Commander was on jump status as was the Bn. CSM but they did not wear the bloused boots in class A uniform. They did wear the oval, tab and glider patch. I recently obrained an older maroon beret with a cut-edge 4/9 Infantry flash (one of the "Charlie Airborne" companies), however the rank insignia pinned to the flash is for a CSM. I'm assuming that this means the battalion CSM wore a maroon beret since he was on jump status(?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 23, 2014 Share #113 Posted October 23, 2014 I recently obrained an older maroon beret with a cut-edge 4/9 Infantry flash (one of the "Charlie Airborne" companies), however the rank insignia pinned to the flash is for a CSM. I'm assuming that this means the battalion CSM wore a maroon beret since he was on jump status(?). You saying the rank was pinned to the flash rather than the DI right? That would be a first I think, would you think this rank pin was added years later by someone else? Is just for curiosity, is the rank subdued or Gold colored? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPage Posted October 24, 2014 Share #114 Posted October 24, 2014 You saying the rank was pinned to the flash rather than the DI right? That would be a first I think, would you think this rank pin was added years later by someone else? Is just for curiosity, is the rank subdued or Gold colored? The cut-outs on the back of the stiffener (inside the beret), which facilitate an insignia, are one above the other, indicating either a LT or perhaps the 9th Infantry DUI (which apparently has prongs arranged vertically). CSM rank, however, has the prongs side-by-side. I note however that there are a few 172d berets shown on this forum which show NCO rank pinned to the flash...so that wasn't uncommon in that brigade. The CSM rank is either subdued with the black flaking off showing gold color underneath, or vice-versa. It looks like the former. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPage Posted October 24, 2014 Share #115 Posted October 24, 2014 ................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 24, 2014 Share #116 Posted October 24, 2014 ................. 172d beret.jpg Right you are M, my foul up, forgot about this wearing of EM ranks in the Snowhawk Bde as seen here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPage Posted October 24, 2014 Share #117 Posted October 24, 2014 Right you are M, my foul up, forgot about this wearing of EM ranks in the Snowhawk Bde as seen here. Would jump status necessitate a maroon beret do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 24, 2014 Share #118 Posted October 24, 2014 Would jump status necessitate a maroon beret do you think? I think it would have too, maybe it was worn in the period that Schwarzkopf was there? Certainly when I was in the unit in 81-82, the only troops, officers or enlisted who wore the beret in the Battalion was Charlie Airborne, and any HHC or E Co people who were in direct support of Charlie Airborne and were both jump qualified and on full jump status (loads of jump qualified people throughout the Battalion) like in example, HHC medics, a few RedEye guys I think, no others wore one. Or this beret may date from a later period when things might of changed in this reguard. Hmm maybe not now that I,m thinking, as the 4/9th was redesignated as the 4/327 after awhile, sometime in 1983 after I left in December 1982, here they, Charlie Airborne or any other people that might of been given official jump status, would be wearing the 4 tick 327th Flash on their berets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPage Posted October 27, 2014 Share #119 Posted October 27, 2014 I think it would have too, maybe it was worn in the period that Schwarzkopf was there? Certainly when I was in the unit in 81-82, the only troops, officers or enlisted who wore the beret in the Battalion was Charlie Airborne, and any HHC or E Co people who were in direct support of Charlie Airborne and were both jump qualified and on full jump status (loads of jump qualified people throughout the Battalion) like in example, HHC medics, a few RedEye guys I think, no others wore one. OK, on another forum someone who was there in March '75 when the berets were first issued, stated that everyone in 172d Bde wore the OD beret in the beginning, including the "C" airborne companies. So that might explain why Schwarzkopf in the above photos appears to be wearing an OD beret with jump oval. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 27, 2014 Share #120 Posted October 27, 2014 OK, on another forum someone who was there in March '75 when the berets were first issued, stated that everyone in 172d Bde wore the OD beret in the beginning, including the "C" airborne companies. So that might explain why Schwarzkopf in the above photos appears to be wearing an OD beret with jump oval. Notice in the photo of Schwarzkopf and the brigade commander in their dress uniforms, they are both wearing berets and ovals with their jump wings, but they are also wearing low quarter shoes and not bloused jump boots. Is that any indication of whether or not they were on jump status? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPage Posted October 27, 2014 Share #121 Posted October 27, 2014 Notice in the photo of Schwarzkopf and the brigade commander in their dress uniforms, they are both wearing berets and ovals with their jump wings, but they are also wearing low quarter shoes and not bloused jump boots. Is that any indication of whether or not they were on jump status? Good observation. In an earlier post by BEAST, I see that he stated his battalion commander was on jump status as was the Bn. CSM, but they did not wear the bloused boots in class A uniform, though they did wear the oval, tab and glider patch. That was before the berets were authorized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreasureHunter Posted November 2, 2014 Share #122 Posted November 2, 2014 10th Special Forces group green beret, picked up this week, any info on era would be great. Marked Genuine Military Beret by........? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted November 4, 2014 Share #123 Posted November 4, 2014 Orange beret worn by soldiers of the 9th Infantry Division while assigned to the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai Peninsula in 1989 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPage Posted November 4, 2014 Share #124 Posted November 4, 2014 By 1989 I see that troops were crimping the beret behind the stiffener like they do now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPage Posted November 10, 2014 Share #125 Posted November 10, 2014 This recently came up on ebay; the seller didn't know what the coin-shaped pin was, on the flash. Another ebayer explained it thus: Just thought you'd like to know that the round silver pin on your beret is Cadet rank insignia. This beret was issued to a West Point or ROTC Cadet who participated in Cadet Troop Leader Training (CTLT) with the 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division during the summer after his junior year of college. I served in the 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment from 1991-1994, and we had a few CTLT Cadets, usually one per rifle company, join us for a few weeks every summer. It was a pretty good program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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