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A beret (UK: / ˈbɛreɪ / BERR-ay, [1] US: / bəˈreɪ / bə-RAY; [2] French: béret [beʁɛ]; Basque: txapel; Spanish: boina) is a soft, round, flat-crowned cap made of hand-knitted wool, crocheted cotton, wool felt, [3] or acrylic fibre. Mass production of berets began in the 19th century in Southern France and the north of Spain, where they ...
Irish Army berets in different colours Examples of the UN blue beret and Naval Service beret worn by Irish Defence Forces officers. All Army personnel wear a common capbadge, a sunburst insignia with the letters "FF" inscribed above the left eye of the beret. The Irish Defence Forces cap badge for Officers in the Army has a more subdued ...
The United States Army has used military berets as headgear with various uniforms beginning in World War II. Since June 14, 2001, a black beret is worn by all U.S. Army troops unless the soldier is approved to wear a different distinctive beret. A maroon beret has been adopted as official headdress by the Airborne forces, a tan beret by the ...
The United States Army Special Forces (SF), colloquially known as the " Green Berets " due to their distinctive service headgear, is the special operations branch of the United States Army. [ 9 ] Although technically an Army branch, the Special Forces operates similarly to a functional area (FA), in that individuals may not join its ranks until ...
Uniforms for the War of 1812 were made in Philadelphia.. The design of early army uniforms was influenced by both British and French traditions. One of the first Army-wide regulations, adopted in 1789, prescribed blue coats with colored facings to identify a unit's region of origin: New England units wore white facings, southern units wore blue facings, and units from Mid-Atlantic states wore ...
The maroon beret is worn by all members of the 25th (Airborne) Infantry Battalion (Jägerbataillon 25) of the Austrian Armed Forces (Bundesheer), which is a mixed airborne/air assault unit. The Special Forces group of the Austrian Armed Forces (Jagdkommando) also originally wore the maroon beret because of their airborne capability, but adopted ...
United States military beret flash. Appearance. Wear of the beret flash in the US military. Army NCOs wearing rifle–green berets with organizational beret flashes from (right to left) 1st, 5th, 7th, and 10th Special Forces Groups bearing the 1st Special Forces Regiment DUI. An Army warrant officer wearing maroon beret with 1st Battalion ...
Field Marshal Montgomery wearing his black beret. The black beret is a colour of beret, a type of headgear.It is commonly worn by paramilitaries and militaries around the world, particularly armored forces such as the British Army's Royal Tank Regiment (RTR), the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps (RCAC), and Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC) and the Indian Army Armoured Corps and Indian ...