What do the different colour of berets stand for?

Question

I know quite a few, but I'm interested in some of the more exotic colours like yellow, and so forth.
Dark Blue- Navy
Light Green- Army
Dark Green- "Green Beret"
Light Blue- Airforce
Black- Anti-Tank forces
Red- Paratroopers

What standard are these? And is there a site that lists them?

Answer 1

While I don't know squat about US Berets, here's the breakdown for Canada.

Black: Navy and Armoured
Green: Army
Blue: Air Force
Sky Blue: UN Duty
Red (Scarlet): Military Police
Red (Maroon): Paratroopers
Tan: Special Forces

Also, several Reserve units, Highlanders in general, tend to have different Beret patterns as well.

Answer 2

British Army Beret Colours

Answer 3

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What do the different colour of berets stand for?
I know quite a few, but I'm interested in some of the more exotic colours like yellow, and so forth.
Dark Blue- Navy
Light Green- Army
Dark Green- "Green Beret"
Light Blue- Airforce
Black- Anti-Tank forces
Red- Paratroopers

What standard are these? And is there a site that...

Answer 4

I can tell you about the US Army ones...

Green berets are Special Forces
Black Berets are the US Army
Maroon berets are Paratroopers
Tan berets are Rangers
Orange berets are MFO Sinai Peacekeepers
Baby blue berets are UN Peacekeepers.

Answer 5

The guy who listed the colors for Air Force berets is incorrect.

Security Forces do not wear Royal Blue berets; they wear Navy Blue berets. Air Force Academy Cadets wear Royal Blue.

Trust me, I know; I'm a retired Air Force Security Forces member and wore the beret for 23 years.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

U.S. Army:
Red: Airborne unit
Black: Regular Army (Leg.. ha ha)
Green: Special Forces
Tan: Ranger

Answer 8

in France they have another color to. its pink and they are for the gay soldiers.

Answer 9

* Black - Tactical Air Control Party (TACP), Air Liaison Officers (ALO), and Air Mobility Liaison Officers (AMLO)
* Maroon - Pararescue
* Scarlet — Combat Controllers
* Light blue — Commandos
* Red (scarlet) - Combat Controllers
* Royal Blue - Security Forces
* Grey - Combat Weather
* Black - All soldiers
* Maroon - Airborne units (Paratroopers)
* Tan - Ranger Battalions
* Green - Special Forces units
* Pewter grey — Combat Weathermen
* Guardian Angels- Red New York
* Pink- La French Army!!! (question this one)! lol

Current Air Force Berets

* Black - Tactical Air Control Party (TACP), Air Liaison Officers (ALO), and Air Mobility Liaison Officers (AMLO)
* Maroon - Pararescue
* Red (scarlet) - Combat Controllers
* Royal Blue - Security Forces
* Grey - Combat Weather


Military forces have worn distinctive uniform items for centuries to create a psychological advantage and boost their esprit de corps, but the military use of berets is a relatively recent phenomenon.

Scottish Highland troops wore a “bonnet” in the 17th and 18th centuries, while the headgear most people now know as the beret was worn in the Basque region of France and Spain in the same period.

But widespread use of the beret among Western armies didn’t begin until the 20th century, when French tank crews in World War I wore both the small Basque version and a larger, floppier variety.

Beret history

In the 1920s, British tank crews began searching for an alternative to their stiff khaki service-dress cap, which just wasn’t practical for duty inside the relatively new armored vehicles.

The cap had to be worn backwards to use the gunner’s sights, with the chin strap down to keep it on the head.The light wool serge fabric soon became home for grease stains as it was clutched and adjusted by soiled fingers.

In 1924, the tankers came up with a black wool beret whose size fell in between the two French versions and was bound with black leather featuring an adjustable ribbon that ran around to tie in the back.

When the British tankers added their traditional “Fear Naught” emblem above the left eye, they had a snappy piece of headgear that quickly became famous for its distinctiveness and grew to be the symbol of armored formations around the world.

The military popularity of berets soared during the World War II era when various British units donned the headgear in several colors, including a khaki brown variety adopted by Special Air Services troops and a maroon variety worn by Britain’s first airborne force, the Parachute Regiment, that became affectionately known as the “cherry berry.”

Legend has it that the color was picked by novelist Daphne du Maurier, wife of Maj. Gen. Frederick Browning, one of Britain’s highly decorated World War II heroes.

Berets Debut in U.S. Military

The first use of the modern beret in the U.S. military was in 1943, when a battalion of the 509th Parachute Infantry was given maroon berets by their British counterparts for their service in the war.

In 1951, the Marine Corps experimented with green and blue berets, but dismissed them because they looked too “foreign” and “feminine.”

The first widespread use of the headgear by U.S. forces came shortly after, when a new Army organization that was specially trained for insurgency and counterguerrilla warfare began wearing a green variety in 1953. It took another eight years for the Army’s Special Forces — the “Green Berets” — to win presidential approval from John F. Kennedy to make their headgear official.

In the 1970s, Army policy allowed local commanders to encourage morale-enhancing uniform distinctions, and the use of berets boomed. Armor personnel at Fort Knox, Ky., wore the traditional British black beret, while U.S. armored cavalry regiments in Germany wore the black beret with a red and white oval.

Troops of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C., started wearing the maroon beret in 1973, while at Fort Campbell, Ky., the trend exploded, with post personnel wearing red, military police donning light green, and the 101st Airborne Division taking light blue as their color. In Alaska, the 172nd Infantry Brigade began using an olive green beret.

In 1975, the Airborne Rangers got approval from the Army Chief of Staff to use the black beret as their official headgear.

Over the next few years, the whole thing got out of hand, and in 1979 senior Army officials put on the brakes, Bradford said. The leadership allowed the Rangers to keep their black berets and in 1980, agreed to allow airborne troops to continue wearing the maroon version. But all others varieties were declared off-limits.
Air Force Berets

Wear of berets in the Air Force began in the 1970s. In 1979, the black beret was authorized for wear by enlisted personnel in the Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) AFSC (job). In 1984, two airman from Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina submitted a design for the flash and crest design. It was approved for all TACP airman in 1985. Air Liaison Officers (ALOs) are also authorized to wear the black beret after they graduate from the Joint Firepower Control Course, conducted at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Instead of the crest, they wear their rank insignia on the beret. Air Mobility Liaison Officers (AMLOs) are authorized to wear the black beret in the Air Force, as well.

In addition to the black beret worn by TACP/ALOs/AMLOs, colored berets in the Air Force are worn by Pararescue, Combat Controllers, Security Forces, and Combat Weather.

Present-Day Beret

These days, the United States is on the low end of the spectrum among NATO allies in terms of the variety of berets worn by their military forces.

Turkey, Greece and Luxembourg also authorize only three colors for various segments of their forces, but most countries have four or five.
On Oct. 17 2001, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki announced that the black beret would become standard Army headgear the following year. Shinseki said he wants to use the sense of pride that the beret has long represented to the Rangers to foster an attitude of excellence among the entire Army as it moves forward with its sweeping transformation effort to a lighter, more deployable, more agile force.

His decision set off a firestorm in both the active-duty and veteran Ranger community as well as in the Army’s other two special operations camps, the Special Forces and the airborne.

In 2002, the Army made the tan-color beret the official beret of the U.S. Army Rangers, and all Army soldiers began wearing the black beret.

Current Army Berets

* Black - All soldiers
* Maroon - Airborne units (Paratroopers)
* Tan - Ranger Battalions
* Green - Special Forces units

Current Air Force Berets
Light blue — Commandos
* Black - Tactical Air Control Party (TACP), Air Liaison Officers (ALO), and Air Mobility Liaison Officers (AMLO)
* Maroon - Pararescue
* Red (scarlet) - Combat Controllers
* Royal Blue - Security Forces
* Grey - Combat Weather