Re: hats or caps - as in fatigue - Castro - Ridgeway

From: Dennis Deck (ddeck@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Thu Nov 17 2005 - 07:49:26 PST


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Dennis
--- Sonny Heath <sonny@defuniak.com> wrote:

> I was on active duty when the Army went from the
> flat top cap to the soft
> one. I remember being glad that the change was
> made. I was a mechanic in
> Mannheim, Germany at the time. We were required,
> naturally, to have that
> cap on anytime we were outside, which included the
> motor pool area. Imagine
> trying to keep up with that thing all day long
> whether you were under the
> truck, in the engine compartment, in ythe cab or in
> the cargo bed. I kept
> one which I wore while at the motor pool and another
> for all other times.
> That wire ring was forever getting bent, and then it
> looked like crap. Being
> the strac soldier that I was the soft cap was a
> great improvement. While not
> on your head you simply pulled it up through your
> belt and it was out of the
> way, get bent, no problem, it'll straighten right
> back out when worn. Now I
> wished to hell I had one to wear when in a military
> vehicle, which is almost
> daily in my case.
>
> I heard NOTHING of a cap controversy.
>
> Sonny
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Everette" <194cbteng@bellsouth.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:14 PM
> Subject: [MV] hats or caps - as in fatigue - Castro
> - Ridgeway
>
>
> >I read with interest the thread concernng Castro
> and Ridgway cap and I am
> >in no way doubting the veracity of the statements
> about not wearing Ridgway
> >because Castro did. I was stationed (Jan 59 to Oct
> 60) right across river
> >from DC during the short period of time that Fidel
> was considered a friend,
> >and went to some sort of function at the Embassy
> and met him -- met as in
> >stood some 25 feet from him and listened to a
> ranting speach he made. I
> >must have been out of Army when cap controversy
> took place.
> >
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