Posted on Sep 27, 2018
What is the Red/Purple ribbon for on the DS campaign cover?
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Drill Sergeant
Drill Sergeant
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I’ll second those above. It’s just from UV rays. My hat was cured in polyurethane. Hard as a rock, didn’t bend in the rain, and I wore it the whole time I was there. My buddy didn’t treat his, so he used both of his, my extra, and an additional DX one. Although, if your campaign hat is hard as rock, don’t get mad and throw it near a PVT. You just might knock him out.
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Different units have different meanings. For example when I was in the trail an all blue cord was drill sergeant of the cycle. Silver was 3 times selected for drill of the cycle. All gold was Drill sgt of the year. In the 5th bde which was an AIT unit all the senior drills wore an all red cord. This was Ft Dix in the early ‘80’s.
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SSG (Join to see)
Your campaign cover looks good Top, you should put it on and go scream at some high schoolers to get off their phones and take a run!
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1SG Frank Boynton
SSG (Join to see) this is a real Stetson campaign hat not your issue hat. I paid over $100 for it in 1981. The quality was so much better than that standard issue. You could pick it out from 50 hats sitting on a floor. The quality is that much better. I wore it for special occasions.
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SGM Erik Marquez
That was a unit thing, not authorized and it died a gleeful death as the unit (Post level ) was forced to uphold standards they supposed to be instilling in recruits.
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1SG Frank Boynton
SGM Erik Marquez it was implemented at the post level. Some units abused it. The two training brigades on Dix both had different standards and different color of cords. But hat cords were not novel l, they have been worn since before the Civil War. I believe the Cav still wears them.
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