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What's with the band on this beret?
What's with the band on this beret?
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German beret question
Gungadd- Senior Sergeant
- Location : Virginia
Registration date : 2014-05-28
Number of posts : 340
Gungadd- Senior Sergeant
- Location : Virginia
Registration date : 2014-05-28
Number of posts : 340
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CollectinSteve- ADMIN
- Location : New England, US
Registration date : 2009-03-08
Number of posts : 6906
A damaged Panzergrenadier badge. The national flag is supposed to be in the rectangle at the bottom. The beret color is correct, but the flecktarn sweat band is not supposed to be there. I've never seen anybody put that on before. There is a first for everything 
Berets and badges are all easily found and inexpensive. The beret is standard headwear for all branches of the BW.
Steve
Berets and badges are all easily found and inexpensive. The beret is standard headwear for all branches of the BW.
Steve
Gungadd- Senior Sergeant
- Location : Virginia
Registration date : 2014-05-28
Number of posts : 340
The flag is there just a bad photo reflection
Gungadd- Senior Sergeant
- Location : Virginia
Registration date : 2014-05-28
Number of posts : 340
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CollectinSteve- ADMIN
- Location : New England, US
Registration date : 2009-03-08
Number of posts : 6906
Ah! Well, those little things do fall off sometimes so I wasn't surprised to see it "missing"
Steve
Steve
Gungadd- Senior Sergeant
- Location : Virginia
Registration date : 2014-05-28
Number of posts : 340
A friend of mine has an identical one with the black leather band and an Edelweiss badge on the beret next to the tank badge. Did the Bundeswehr use the Edelweiss like in WW2 ?
CollectinSteve- ADMIN
- Location : New England, US
Registration date : 2009-03-08
Number of posts : 6906
Yup, the most certainly do use it. The wearing of the Edelweiss on the beret is technically against regs, but it is done. This beret would have come from Panzergrenadierbrigade 22 before the 1. GJ Division was reorganized:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzergrenadierbrigade_22
Steve
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzergrenadierbrigade_22
Steve
Gungadd- Senior Sergeant
- Location : Virginia
Registration date : 2014-05-28
Number of posts : 340
I looked at my buddies again. It is a panzer beret not exactly like mine.
loski- Captain
- Name : Graham
Age : 59
Location : West Sussex
Registration date : 2010-08-11
Number of posts : 919
Could be that some Panzergrenadier really liked his old beret so when the sweat band wore out he had the units taylor replace the leather with some Flecktarn fabric or it could have been a tad too tight and he had it let out and rebound with camo fabric the options are endless.
Gungadd- Senior Sergeant
- Location : Virginia
Registration date : 2014-05-28
Number of posts : 340
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Picked this up today
Picked this up today
Gungadd- Senior Sergeant
- Location : Virginia
Registration date : 2014-05-28
Number of posts : 340
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Bert353- Junior Sergeant
- Location : France
Registration date : 2018-02-03
Number of posts : 93
about the flecktarn headband, They made a batch of berets where the headbands were a (kind of ) plastic, which wore off very quick and bad, in patches.
I assume that instead of buying a new beret, he had it repaired that way?
I assume that instead of buying a new beret, he had it repaired that way?
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