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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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01-01-2011, 09:11 PM
haradrel
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oliverbox
Red beret is a good question... Unless the Air Force uses it for something, no U.S. Military unit that I know of uses Red Berets. Often, the Maroon Airborne berets are mistakenly called "red", but any paratrooper will quickly correct you if you call his beret "red".
My feeling about Sideshow Beach-Head is this: Sideshow has no idea what their doing with berets, and it makes me angry. They said from the begining, that the purpose of the line was to give the classic characters modern/realistic updates. Berets should have been part of that realistic/modern update.
Sorry not to have a better answer for you than that, but it's all I know about Red Berets. Thanks for the question, and welcome to the thread.
That was a good answer, and coming from you it will probably be the best one I ever get on the matter - I have been reading this thread for some time, here and there at least, it gets interesting.
Now I'm going to have to make up a little story for Beachhead where he trades his green beret with someone from a different country.
I personally think that sideshow just gave him the red beret because he was designed with one from the get go - the original figure had one (right?) and the 25th version had one sculpted on the vest as well. Color wise it makes sense, it's a contrast color to the green seen elsewhere and the brown is a complimentary color. It's probably just a cartoonist/visual trick to make the figure pop without any afterthought to the military connections behind it.
As we all know Hasbro was quite willy nilly with the details around ranks and uniforms.
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