You know, it's a funny thing...and I'm not the only one that felt this way...but that beret is the most useless piece of headgear ever made. It's only decent use was as a sweat rag rather than a hat. However, I was willing to do anything to earn the right to wear that Green Beret. It was a long road fraught with more administrative bullshit than you can believe, just to get the chance to go to the Q course. The Q course itself is very dangerous and has a mortality rate of its own. Once it was all over, and I had earned the right to that beret, I quickly developed an aversion to actually wear it. It is a crappy piece of headger. It takes two hands and a mirror to put it on correctly. You had to remove the liner and mold it to your head (of course removing the liner was expressly forbidden by Command). It got soaked when it rained and provided no protection from the weather. If you wore it incorrectly you looked like a deranged pizza chef (we actually had an XO we called "Pizza Man"). To a man, we all wore our patrol caps whenever possible.
Not a beret in site. I'm the one without any headgear at all, far right. Tm Sgt is the other guy without headgear. Italilian Incursore JCET, Cinque Torri, Italy
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