EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., Oct. 13 -- The U.S. Air Force Edwards Air Force Base issued the following press release:
In the Air Force, standard headwear is simple. Most Airmen go about their day in either an OCP patrol cap or a flight cap. Seeing someone in a beret is rare - a deliberate, prestigious distinction reserved for specialized combat career fields.
Until recently, only six specialized groups held the right to wear a beret.
Security Forces defenders wear dark blue, while Combat Control Team and Special Tactics Officers sport scarlet. Pewter gray belongs to Weather Parachutists and Special Reconnaissance Airmen, while Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape specialists don pewter green. Maroon is reserved for Pararescue Air...