{"id":75613,"date":"2017-10-28T10:04:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T14:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75613"},"modified":"2017-10-28T16:05:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T20:05:08","slug":"more-beret-kerfuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75613","title":{"rendered":"More beret kerfuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today’s outrage seems to be about a Green Beret. The Army established the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade at Fort Benning, Georgia earlier this year. Their mission, according to Mil.Gov<\/a> is;<\/p>\n

The 1st SFAB is the first brigade purposefully built to help combatant commanders accomplish theater security objectives by training, advising, assisting, accompanying and enabling allied and partnered indigenous security forces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Their shoulder patch is a little odd;<\/p>\n

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Soldier Systems<\/a> says that the tab has changed, but I can’t verify that;<\/p>\n

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But the biggest stink is about their beret, which is a different shade of green than the traditional Special Forces Green Beret, supposedly. There are a number of petitions out there from special forces soldiers and veterans asking that the 1st SFAB not wear their shade of Green Berets. <\/p>\n

I haven’t found any instance of anyone wearing that distinctive headgear, even on the 1st SFAB Facebook page<\/a>. All I see is helmets and patrol-type caps. But then I remember the Shinseki days when the Army Chief of Staff decided that a Black Beret taken from Rangers would improve morale in the US Army. <\/p>\n

The Army is seeking volunteers for the 1st SFAB and offering $5000 bonuses<\/a> for reenlisting volunteers, so yeah, they might be thinking about a beret as a cheap way to attract soldiers – but I don’t see anything tangible in that regard.<\/p>\n

I remember in 1979, when the Army Chief of Staff wiped out all of the distinctive headgear that wasn’t in the Army Regulation 670-1 (Uniform Wear and Appearance standards) which took away the maroon beret from Airborne soldiers, Stetsons from Cav soldiers, black berets from tankers, the wool blanket beret of the 172nd Brigade in Alaska, basically everything that wasn’t Special Forces Green Berets and Rangers’ Black Berets. It took changing the Army Chief of Staff to return the maroon beret to airborne troopers.<\/p>\n

Given the Army’s love for changing uniforms, I don’t doubt that they’ll try to slip this one past us, but there’s no real evidence right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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