COLUMBIA -- It's hot, it doesn't keep the sun out of your eyes, and you need two hands and a mirror to make sure it's on straight. After 10 years of complaints, the Army is all but ditching the black ...

FORT BENNING, GA -The headgear for garrison operations is the black beret. The headgear for training environments is the patrol cap. Leaders are enforcing this standard by placing NCOs in high-traffic ...

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III shakes hands with Staff Sgt. Matthew Rompca, 355th Fighter Wing protocol as Betty Welsh looks on, upon arriving at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Army said Monday that it was abandoning the beret, after a failed 10-year experiment. The black beret, which proved deeply unpopular with American soldiers, will be replaced by ...

The Army is pushing a plan to phase out the less efficient beret and pursue the reassignment of the patrol cap as the standard service cap. According to materials submitted by Democratic Party of ...