Navy personnel never equiped with beret? Aye, we do have photos...

[Salvage Sailor]

 

Harbor Clearance Unit One (HCU-1) reenlistments aboard their Diving/Salvage barge, (YRST-1), Subic Bay, May 1971

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HCU-1 Beret Photo from my files

 

[Salvage Sailor]

 

Naval Advisory Group Salvage Officers

(HCU-1)

1971 Saigon

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Curveball...

 

Identified Italian made Beret, Naval Air Station Sigonella, Italy belonging to a USN LCDR

 

 

 

 

Bullion Insignia from Johnson, Hong Kong (we have a separate topic on these on the forum)

 

[sigsaye]

Was there ever anything in uniform regs about berets?  I know they existed and were worn, but was it something like covering working jackets with patches. Not in regulations, but done anyway. Same with dungarees. Dropped from regs in the early 70s, but guys kept wearing them anyway. 

[sigsaye]

So. I’ve never worn a beret. How were they in the heat and humidity?  

[Salvage Sailor]

MEDCAP Team Navy Junk Force

November, 1966

 

 

 

 

 

 

LTjg JAMES C. McCLOSKEY, USN, of the Black Beret

 

 

 

LT WELCH, USN, of the Black Beret

 

 

 

Insignia on the Black Beret worn by JERRY JONES (BM1) USN 

 

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Junk Force, 1966

An Thoi, RVN

 

 

 

 

 

[hink441]

Naval Aviation Squadron unit beret. VA-86 A-7 squadron. 
 

 

[sigsaye]

So, we’re any of these berets, “Isdued”?  Were they private purchase?, were they “Organizational Clothing”, like the fatigues?  I don’t recall ever seeing anything in uniform regs about them, ( but, I never looked either). Just asking. 

[Cpl. Punishment]

 

The first photo is of this man wearing his beret with River Section 542. Later, he transferred to RivDiv 593 and was a plankowner. This is the same beret given to me by the vet.

[hardstripe]

ASMIC Offers a similar book. It covers patches and insignia of the Riverine Forces during the Vietnam era.

Title - Riverine Forces 

Author - Cecil B. Smythe Jr.

Full color - 50 + pages

Available at www.asmic.org

$14.00 for members

$20.00 for non-members

 

 

 

Publications order form Dec 24.pdf