HATS....

druryj · Apr 28, 2019

lasher said:
that is not a hat. that is a cover

A cover is military nomenclature for headgear, what many call a hat, or cap. If I put on my dress uniform and go outside, I wear my cover. My cover comes off when I enter a building. That, however, is not a military piece of headgear, therefor it is completely okay to refer to it as a hat or a cap. If you refer to it as a cover, you are not wrong, but if you refer to military (at least USMC) uniform headgear as a hat, you are.

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dennishoddy · Apr 28, 2019

golddigger14s said:
Between my upbringing and the Army I never wear a hat indoors. With the exception of the next couple of weeks...... I suffered a head injury and will be wearing a ball cap to cover the stitches. Since I have lost a fair amount of hair I need to wear a hat on sunny days, big brimmed sun/rain hat, and a knit cap on cold days.

Wife put a pop knot on your noggin and got a little to aggressive? LOL, I kid.

lasher · Apr 29, 2019

druryj said:
A cover is military nomenclature for headgear, what many call a hat, or cap. If I put on my dress uniform and go outside, I wear my cover. My cover comes off when I enter a building. That, however, is not a military piece of headgear, therefor it is completely okay to refer to it as a hat or a cap. If you refer to it as a cover, you are not wrong, but if you refer to military (at least USMC) uniform headgear as a hat, you are.

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Sgt Morgan, one of our junior drill instructors, considered your poncho hood a cover. I know because I got thumped for "fecking with my cover", caught me with the extra set of eyes he had on the back of his head. from those days forward any head covering device, cloth, metal, was/is a cover.

druryj · Apr 29, 2019

lasher said:
Sgt Morgan, one of our junior drill instructors, considered your poncho hood a cover. I know because I got thumped for "fecking with my cover", caught me with the extra set of eyes he had on the back of his head. from those days forward any head covering device, cloth, metal, was/is a cover.

LOL! All those Drill Instructors had eyes in the back of their head. To this very day, I still get nervous around a pack of crackers...I thought I was so slick, yeah, I'd snuck 'em outa the chow hall and was gonna eat 'em right before Hygiene Inspection. Yep, shoved the whole pack of saltine crackers right in my mouth. Then Sgt Devaney magically appeared before me, kicked my footlocker lid shut and looked me square in the eye and said "Well Private, what did you do wrong today?" I knew I was toast; there he was, staring at me. And there I was, with my mouth full of very dry, illicit crackers...when I finally tried to respond, about all I did was spew cracker crumbs all over the front of his uniform. That was a very long night.

lasher · Apr 29, 2019

we had the old utilities with the inside pocket, the cookie crumblers always tried to sneak a cookie out of the chow hall. we maybe had a cookie 5 times in 13 weeks, called them the cookie crumblers cause the drill instructors would give all of us a punch to the inside pocket location on the cookie days.

Tanis143 · Apr 29, 2019

druryj said:
LOL! All those Drill Instructors had eyes in the back of their head. To this very day, I still get nervous around a pack of crackers...I thought I was so slick, yeah, I'd snuck 'em outa the chow hall and was gonna eat 'em right before Hygiene Inspection. Yep, shoved the whole pack of saltine crackers right in my mouth. Then Sgt Devaney magically appeared before me, kicked my footlocker lid shut and looked me square in the eye and said "Well Private, what did you do wrong today?" I knew I was toast; there he was, staring at me. And there I was, with my mouth full of very dry, illicit crackers...when I finally tried to respond, about all I did was spew cracker crumbs all over the front of his uniform. That was a very long night.

Man, I even winced reading that. It was bad enough you snuck the crackers, but you actually soiled the uniform of your DI. I'm surprised you're still alive, and that's not a joke.

druryj · Apr 29, 2019

Tanis143 said:
Man, I even winced reading that. It was bad enough you snuck the crackers, but you actually soiled the uniform of your DI. I'm surprised you're still alive, and that's not a joke.

Even funnier, like 12 years later, Sgt Devaney even worked for me, after I got commissioned and when I was a Captain! He was then a Mgysgt. Talk about one weird reunion ... of sorts. I told several of the other senior NCOs in the unit the cracker story; well, we all took the “new guy” out for a beer and I broke it to him. He almost choked on his beer! He remembered it too. He was damn proud to see one of the slimeball maggots he’d put through boot camp become an Officer. Still, it was strange...in a way.

Jcann · Apr 29, 2019

When under arms a Marine is allowed to wear his/her cover indoors. So, if you see me wearing a "hat" indoors you'll know I'm heeled.

druryj · Apr 29, 2019

Jcann said:
When under arms a Marine is allowed to wear his/her cover indoors. So, if you see me wearing a "hat" indoors you'll know I'm heeled.

Interesting. If you see me, you’ll know I’m heeled.

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AKguy1985 · Apr 30, 2019

I wear a hat daily. It just became a habit over the years.

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