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09-26-2005, 04:05 PM
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Boony hat
I notice a lot of boony hats that are hear in the states (like in movies or in Army surplus stores) have a sewn on peace of expandable cloth that looks like it was to hold bullits around the cap part. The boony hat I had didn't have any sewn on peace of anything on it. Did you have a hat?
Ron 
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#2
09-26-2005, 04:25 PM
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I still go my boonie hat
Looking at it now . Not expandable but got something around it you could put a shot gun round it . Never did. Got my girl;s name on the right side and New Jersey on the other side. DMZ on the back . Two flechette rounds on the front and two grenade pins on either side
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09-26-2005, 05:34 PM
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No boonie hats
in the 101st 66/67. Steel pots were always the uniform of the day. Yeah, they were hot and heavy but could you dig a fighting hole in a hurry with a boonie hat
 ? The LRRP's got to wear boonie hats, along with tiger stripes.82nd was the same; steel pots. We deployed with them and were told to wear them. I was with them for only about 3mos. after we got in-country, so I don't know if that changed later.
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09-26-2005, 05:56 PM
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We wore both ... if we were humpin' the boonies it was steel pots and if we stopped or when at a firebase or the rare times we got back to Camp Evans, we wore boonie hats
somewhere in the A Shau 1969  I'm the third from the left in the back row
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09-26-2005, 06:53 PM
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Our Desert Cami ones don't have any loops around the hat band but, I have a woodland green one I got at a Army Surplus store in London that has the loops .
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09-30-2005, 06:09 AM
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Going nuts
Ever since I read this I have been looking for mine, I just had it out and now I can't find it. Next week I won't be looking for it and there it will be, I'm always a week behind :cd: , I think I'm getting olds-himers or something, what were we talking about??????.
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09-30-2005, 08:14 AM
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Boony Hats
In my unit we could only wear them when we weren't on a patrol or an ambush had to wear steel pots, also if we humping the bush had to wear steel pots.
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09-30-2005, 01:02 PM
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For us in 1/46 Americal it was as Bill said. Steel pots were SOP while moving. In rainy season, they were handy to keep your butt out of the mud and water while sitting. But we were allowed boonie hats when in day patrol base or NDP. Our Recon platoon was allowed boonie hats though. I had one, on which I pinned a safety pin collection from each time I opened a cravat. I had the CMB sewed on the front. It was in my suitcase from 'nam. But the suitcase never made it to Sea-Tac from Fort Lewis. After a year in Vietnam, I was in no mood to go back and get it, either. Wish I had it now, though.
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10-01-2005, 12:32 PM
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My bonny hat
Only wore it while at happy hour.
Any day above ground is a good day.
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