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To: cll
Good move.

They should go back to the Ridgeway style caps, not the baseball caps.

86 posted on 06/13/2011 9:12:44 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog

The Ridgeway was a sharp hat, but it was never “GI”. You had to buy it on your dime, otherwise you were stuck with the M1951 or later the godawful “Cap, Field, Hot Weather”. The troops either loved or hated them, nobody was ambivalent about them. In defense of the Ridgeway, I think the majority of the guys that hated them had inexpensive models that wouldn’t hold their shape. The only one worth a darn was the Bancroft which had a wire frame, but the $16 price tag was pretty intimidating for a GI making less than $4K a year.


118 posted on 06/14/2011 10:51:57 AM PDT by jboot
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