Whats on your Bonnie Hat ?

[DMZ-LT]

In my Troop the correct way to embroider your bonnie hat was home state on the left side and girl friends name on the right side. I had DMZ on the back too. 4 hand gernade rings on the sides and two crossed flechettes on the front. Seems everyone carried a white plactic spoon in their left top pocket too. So whats on your Boonie Hat ?

[1CAVCCO15MED]

The 1st Cav did not allow boonie hats, only helments. We spent a month at Bien Hoa air base looking kind of silly in them.

[frisco-kid]

Same-same me, Lt.; only helmets. The lrrps and recon could wear them, but steel pots for the grunts in the field. Hey, sometimes I wished it was as big as a quonsot hut. How good of a fighting hole could you dig with your boonie hat in a pinch .

Grenade rings.Later added CMB to the front.Rarely wore the helmet(only when directly ordered to do so) but kept it around to wash/shave/cook out of.Often wonder how the boys these days get by,oh sure the present day ones'll stop a bullet where ours wouldn't;but can ya cook in it?

[DMZ-LT]

Like Doc , I had a helmet but never wore it. Wash , cook with it and when riding on top a track would lay out my flak jacket on top of the track and turn my helmet over and sit on it. Was launched off the track twice hitting ( thank goodness ) a small mine.

[39mto39g]

Plan hat nothing on it, wore it most of the time. We weren't required to wear a helmet except on guard in base camp.
One LT. tryed to make us wear them all the time but we bitched so much he let up and didn't make us anymore.

Ron

[MORTARDUDE]

We wore our boonie hats whenever we could. Ours were not as decorated as the ones in the rear...The lifers wanted us to wear steel pots, but we got around that by putting the camflouge covers over the helmet liner. Worked most times. Of course, not good if you got shot.....

Larry

Had one that I had etched on it "God is my point man" however had to wear our steel pots in the field. Kept it for a moment, left it at the traveling wall when it came here to Sacramento last year.

[exlrrp]

John
Yr forgetting the Dr Grabow YelloBole pipe stem sticking out of the left shirt pocket and the suspicious bulge on the leg perhaps hidden by a pistol.
Its been known to happen!!

I don't remember writing anything on my lrrp boonie hat, probably couldn't have seen it for the dirt. The superstition was never to wash them and they'd get strong enough to walk away by themselves
These woud be those cammo flop hats with the brim cut down to an inch or two, the fringes raggedy (better cammo) and they would be some dank, let me tell you.We'd put in a grnade pin (ring) or 2 for luck
We'd wear them all the time, even in the rear wearing "civvies" which meant regular combat fatigues (it was our little joke) because we didn't want people to think we were in the 4th Div. (sorry Ron & Robert but it was true)
Where we'd see the writing all the time would be on helmet covers--I mean some people put their whole life story including religion on theirs. (a lot of the days were boring)
I think I had something like "This Really Sucks!!" on mine, probably why I didn't make sgt
See ya in Washgtn John

James