Earning It: A Complete History of U.S. Army Berets and Who's Allowed to Wear Them
by Army Times
SWJ Blog Post | November 19, 2017 - 1:06pm
by Meghann Myers - Army Times
It’s official: Seventeen years after adding another color to its array of distinctive headgear, the Army is getting another beret.
And, this time, the outcry came fast and hard.
Earlier this year, the Army began standing up a new organization devoted solely to training, advising and assisting the conventional forces of foreign partner nations. As the first class finished their stint at the Military Adviser Training Academy, word got around that soldiers in these new Security Force Assistance Brigades would be unlike most others — because they’d be getting a distinctive colored beret.
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