Explainer When Did Military Hats Get So Boring? A mini-Explainer on Hugo Chavez’s beret and the decline of fashionable martial headwear.

The beret has never been popular among soldiers, so the Army decided to bring back the patrol cap as the official headgear for the Army Combat Uniform. The beret had been the official headgear ...

A traditional boater hat is often made out of straw or another stiff material; while it was often a casual piece of headwear ...

Needless to say, the beret has been around for a while, and has been linked with a plethora of different types of peoples, countries and identities. It's a hat with a powerful, unlikely history ...

For the march to Parliament, many young wahine donned a red beret. It's a pōtae steeped in history and symbolism.

Eventually, however, it became standard. “The Green Beret was originally designated in 1953 by Special Forces Major Herbert Brucker, a veteran of the OSS,” records note.

Soldiers at Fort Bliss, Texas, can wear “boonie hats” to protect them from the sun, which shines an average of 302 days per year in El Paso.

Former President Trump endorsed Derrick Anderson, a former U.S. Army Special Forces Green Beret, and Laurie Buckhout, a former Army colonel, in their bids to flip House seats from blue to red.

Rangers didn't always wear tan berets - they used to be black. But Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki announced on Oct. 17, 2001, that the black beret would become standard Army headgear in 2002.