Re: KNOCKING THE ARMY

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Adam Benedict Canning <dahak@dahak.free-online.co.uk>
To: <gzg-l@scotch.csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: KNOCKING THE ARMY

> > Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:06:48 -0500
> > From: Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com>
> > At 8:46 AM -0600 3/30/02, DAWGFACE47@webtv.net wrote:
> > >SPECIAL FORCES WEAR GREEN BERETS  THE  US ARMY.
> > 
> > Well, aren't Rangers a form of special forces?
> > 
> > The British use the following colors for berets to my understanding
> > 
> > Black Royal Tank Regiment and Royal Armored Corps (Dates 
> > back to WWII)
> > Dk Brown Royal Hussars
> > Green Royal Marine Commandos
> > Dk Green Army Commandos
> > Tan SAS
> > OD Regular Army
> > Scarlet Para's/Airborne
> > Light Blue Royal Army Air Corps
> 
> Red for MP's isn't it?
> 
> Adam
Aye, scarlet is MPs, Para red berets are maroon.

More elite berets, courtesy of Osprey:
Light blue	    Soviet VDV (paras)
Black		     Soviet Naval Infantry
Red		      Polish paras (Warsaw Pact)
Light blue	    Polish Naval Assault Division (Warsaw Pact)
Red		     Czechoslovakian paras (Warsaw Pact)
Orange		   East German paras (Warsaw Pact)
Khaki drab	 Romanian Mountain Infantry

Rob Paul