Initially what grabbed my attention was a photo within this story about a vet who was shot*
Army veteran shot in the back after baseball game may never walk again
That's a seriously strange looking uniform, but I'm not one to "ZOMG POSER!!!!!!!" so I started digging around. Surprisingly, it wasn't an easy dig.
The black or green beret is still funky, but the short version is that's the 4th Infantry Reg. DUI, the only authorized cloth DUI (near as I can tell). Everything about the beret still bugs me though I found one other instance:
The whole thing looks "poser odd" but there's very limited information out there. I can't speak for the bottom photo, but the first two jive with being in a West Germany-based unit in the 80's (corresponding to the 4th Regt.'s activation at that time). Maybe some of our members from that timeframe (@LibraryLady ) remember anything like this.
As an added bonus the search also allowed me to find this, which is a first. That caused me to do some digging. Totally legit but to be honest I didn't think so when I first saw it.
In other words, before calling out someone, do a little digging beforehand. Google's free (minus the cost of our souls for using Google)
* - I hate that the man is shot and paralyzed but why must we attach "vet" to every tale of woe? Being a vet makes his suffering more unjust or more worthy of public assistance or should cause the perp to do more jail time? How much longer are vets going to be a privileged class or singled out? That's seriously going to bite us in the ass one day.
Army veteran shot in the back after baseball game may never walk again
That's a seriously strange looking uniform, but I'm not one to "ZOMG POSER!!!!!!!" so I started digging around. Surprisingly, it wasn't an easy dig.
The black or green beret is still funky, but the short version is that's the 4th Infantry Reg. DUI, the only authorized cloth DUI (near as I can tell). Everything about the beret still bugs me though I found one other instance:
The whole thing looks "poser odd" but there's very limited information out there. I can't speak for the bottom photo, but the first two jive with being in a West Germany-based unit in the 80's (corresponding to the 4th Regt.'s activation at that time). Maybe some of our members from that timeframe (@LibraryLady ) remember anything like this.
As an added bonus the search also allowed me to find this, which is a first. That caused me to do some digging. Totally legit but to be honest I didn't think so when I first saw it.
In other words, before calling out someone, do a little digging beforehand. Google's free (minus the cost of our souls for using Google)
* - I hate that the man is shot and paralyzed but why must we attach "vet" to every tale of woe? Being a vet makes his suffering more unjust or more worthy of public assistance or should cause the perp to do more jail time? How much longer are vets going to be a privileged class or singled out? That's seriously going to bite us in the ass one day.
. I wish him and his family the very best.
