CelticSire
US Veteran
SF never wore black, it is green, hence the name "Green Berets". Rangers wore black. Airborne is maroon.
The Air Force has to tuck pants into boots!
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SF never wore black, it is green, hence the name "Green Berets". Rangers wore black. Airborne is maroon.
safearm
US Veteran
In the Air Force, you have to earn a beret, it's not just issued. The only career fields that wear berets are:
Security Forces (dark blue)
TACP/ALO (black)
CCT (red)
PJ (maroon)
Combat Weather (gray)
SERE (forest green)
In my career, I was honored to wear a dark blue beret and later a black beret.
Security Forces (dark blue)
TACP/ALO (black)
CCT (red)
PJ (maroon)
Combat Weather (gray)
SERE (forest green)
In my career, I was honored to wear a dark blue beret and later a black beret.
GatorFarmer
Member
I remember when I took the AFOQT back in 2000. (The guy who sat next to me and cheated off me is probably a major by now. I passed qualifying flight scores by marking most questions "C", guessing, and remembering how I'd played Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe years before for flight dynamics. The rest was an IQ test with some math thrown in.)
Back then you went in, and probably still today, you had to buy all your own uniforms when you were an officer. They also made you buy every single item, which means that even when you were doing your training in the summer in Florida, you had to show up with your polar cold weather gear along. It came out to be two or three thousand dollars worth of uniforms. Ouch.
Perhaps someone who found that a pain in the pocket book years before is all for simplifying uniforms and modifying them a bit.
Back then you went in, and probably still today, you had to buy all your own uniforms when you were an officer. They also made you buy every single item, which means that even when you were doing your training in the summer in Florida, you had to show up with your polar cold weather gear along. It came out to be two or three thousand dollars worth of uniforms. Ouch.
Perhaps someone who found that a pain in the pocket book years before is all for simplifying uniforms and modifying them a bit.
