Actually, I'm going to explain a couple of related color terms that have been associated with military uniforms in our history. The first is the OD green you asked about. It stands for olive drab ...

In late 1962, Secretary of the Army Elvis J ... was taken from the Australian bush hat, and was beige in color. In 1983, the color was changed to green with the style remaining unchanged.

I’ve been a military spouse ... the many colorful berets and hats on Soldiers. I hadn’t recalled seeing any color on Fort Campbell except black, with the rare green one thrown in.

The hat has become a symbol of Chavez’s leadership and a nod to his past as an army paratrooper. Soldiers used to wear bold, colorful headwear. When did military hats get so boring? Such hats ...

Enter the Army Green Uniform in 1954. The dark green color, specifically "shade 44", was a throwback to the distinctive color for rifle units back in Revolutionary times, and was recommended to ...

Big news in the world of Army headgear: Soldiers at Fort Bliss, Texas can now wear “boonie” hats, which provide more ... SFAB soldiers would be issued green berets, angering Army Special ...

but she never joined the Green Berets and left the Army as a lieutenant colonel in 2003. "It isn't important that I wear the hat," she told The Associated Press after her graduation. " ...

But Wilder, who left the Army as a lieutenant colonel in 2003, never joined the Green Berets. "It isn't important that I wear the hat," she told the AP after graduating. "I'm not at all hung up on ...