Get the latest military news and culture in your inbox daily. The boonie hat – officially known as ... then the service’s chief of staff, adopted the black beret as the garrison cap for ...

In what could be the most significant move on uniforms since black socks for physical training ... last week on the Army Reddit forum. The boonie hat, or "sun hat," is mostly intended to be ...

A soldier wears a "boonie hat" during Exercise Southern Vanguard 24 in Oiapoque, Brazil, on Nov. 15, 2023. (Spc. Joseph Liggio/Army National Guard) Sunburned necks and scorched ears no longer.

News of the authorization at Fort Bliss in Texas to wear the boonie, officially designated the sun hat by the Army, spread on social media last week with posts on unofficial Army and military ...

The necks of airmen at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, will continue to scorch under the blistering summer sun after a request to let them don the military's iconic boonie hat was denied by higher ...

However the military has strict rules for when troops are allowed to wear the hats. For the Air Force, regulations dictate that airmen can wear boonie hats while deployed or when authorized by a ...