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01-01-2011, 09:11 PM | #14501 |
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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. 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. |
01-01-2011, 09:15 PM | #14502 |
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You could just get a 1:6 green or tan beret for your sideshow Beach-Head to wear... that's what I did.
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01-01-2011, 10:34 PM | #14503 |
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The Air Force does use red berets. PJs wear a maroon beret, and the Combat Controllers wear scarlet berets. I can't think of a logical explanation for Beach Head's red beret, even if he was a member of the 82nd Airborne before becoming a Ranger. But, that still doesn't make any sense, since he'd trade the red one for a black one.
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01-02-2011, 01:20 AM | #14504 |
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The Air Force does use red berets. PJs wear a maroon beret, and the Combat Controllers wear scarlet berets. I can't think of a logical explanation for Beach Head's red beret, even if he was a member of the 82nd Airborne before becoming a Ranger. But, that still doesn't make any sense, since he'd trade the red one for a black one.
And yeah, there is NO reasonable explanation why Beach-Head had a Red or Maroon Beret.
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01-02-2011, 01:41 AM | #14505 |
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Sadly neither Hasbro, Sideshow or any of the Joe licensees seem to take military accuracy very seriously. I remember reading someone say that it's because they're toys and meant for kids but Sideshow figs are designed for adult collectors.
Was just reading some of the O13 filecards with some fresh eyes and was surprised to find both Steeler and Rock n Roll graduated Covert Ops school. Interesting, definitely overlooked parts of their skill sets. |
01-02-2011, 01:49 AM | #14506 |
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this is out of the blue and my first post in here ....Sideshow Dusty has a tan Beret is this just good fashion sense or are they implying he's a Ranger? I checked his wiki and it doesnt really have a lot of info on his military training.
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01-02-2011, 02:02 AM | #14507 |
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Btw, welcome to the thread! Nice to see some new faces |
01-02-2011, 02:05 AM | #14508 |
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In as much, sadly, I think sideshow just did it for fasion. Tyroc beat me to it And as much as we all think Dusty is likely to be in SF, there's no "hard evidence" in the file cards or the comic to prove that he's Ranger or SF qualified.
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01-02-2011, 02:07 AM | #14509 |
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Sadly neither Hasbro, Sideshow or any of the Joe licensees seem to take military accuracy very seriously. I remember reading someone say that it's because they're toys and meant for kids but Sideshow figs are designed for adult collectors.
Was just reading some of the O13 filecards with some fresh eyes and was surprised to find both Steeler and Rock n Roll graduated Covert Ops school. Interesting, definitely overlooked parts of their skill sets.
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01-02-2011, 02:07 AM | #14510 |
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Are the lurkers who learn a lot but never have anything useful to contribute welcome also?
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