According to the Defense Logistics Agency, which handles purchasing for the military, a total of 4.8 million black berets have been ... South Africa and India; a Canadian company with a plant ...

Since 2001, the black beret has ... was extending the use of the beret to whole Army as a symbol of a force in the midst of transforming itself into a more nimble military institution.

The elite commando group will have its own distinctive beret after all, in Ranger tan, while basic black becomes general issue. But the flap over military headgear is far from over. For months ...

The retired Green Beret, who was a trailblazer as one of the first Black officers to join the Special Forces, told Military.com on Thursday that he wouldn't have done anything differently even if ...

Get the latest military ... The blue beret, though, would be short-lived. The beret craze was leading to a proliferation of different colors. There were maroon, blue, and black berets, not only ...

who introduced the black beret to the uniform of the Airborne Rangers, died Wednesday at his Lady's Island residence. Spragins, who worked as a financial adviser after leaving the military and ...