This is from the draft of my memoirs - Son of a Sharecropper.
Coming
from the 199th
Light
Infantry Brigade,
I was a bit of an oddity at IIFFV. There weren't that many of us
from line units. I remember one morning formation (Yeah - I had to
start going to morning formations) the 1st Sgt was reiterating that
IIFFV personnel were required to wear baseball caps. Boonie hats
were unauthorized attire.
One guy pointed at me in my boonie hat and
said "what about him." The 1st Sgt said "You see that
patch on his right shoulder - that's an infantry unit. He can wear a
bonnie hat here if he wants to." From that day, I wore my
boonie hat with a bit more pride.
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