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Contents Carlists[] Military Units[] Military Police[] Paramilitary Forces[] Commando Forces[] Police Forces[] Non Military[] In popular culture[] Films[] Comic books[] See also[] Notes[]

The red beret is a military beret worn by many military police, paramilitary, commando and police forces around the world. The term is also used to refer to the British Parachute Regiment, although members wear the maroon beret.

Contents

  • 1 Carlists
  • 2 Military Units
  • 3 Military Police
  • 4 Paramilitary Forces
  • 5 Commando Forces
  • 6 Police Forces
  • 7 Non Military
  • 8 In popular culture
    • 8.1 Films
    • 8.2 Comic books
  • 9 See also
  • 10 Notes

Carlists[]

The red beret was worn as a distinguishing device by Carlist soldiers in the First Carlist War and later became an emblem of Carlists in general, often with a yellow pom pom or tassel.[1]

Military Units[]

The following military units wear red berets:

The following military units formerly wore red berets:

Military Police[]

Red berets are worn by the military police of many NATO and Commonwealth of Nations militaries.

Red beret (1)

Paramilitary Forces[]

Commando Forces[]

Police Forces[]

Non Military[]

  • Guardian Angels USA
  • Boy Scouts of America
  • ORB, a group within Doctor Steel's Army of Toy Soldiers fan club
  • Soldier of Fortune magazine uses a red beret as their logo.
  • The Economic Freedom Fighters, a South African political party, have adopted the red beret as one of their symbols.

In popular culture[]

Films[]

  • The Red Beret (1953)
  • The Devil's Brigade (1968)
  • The Red Berets (1968)
  • The Wild Geese (1978)
  • film (1981) - worn by B Company, Valley Forge Military Academy and College treated as B Company of Bunker Hill Military Academy, led by Tom Cruise as Cadet Captain David Shawn in the film.

Comic books[]

  • Mlle. Marie
  • Fightin' 5
  • Percy Pinkerton

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ p.32 MacClancy, Jeremy The Decline of Carlism University of Nevada Press, 2000
  2. ↑ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101010319-102066,00.html

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