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Posted: 1/10/2015 10:39:03 AM EST
The French Police Garrison Cap
 Or the ubiquitous American State Police campaign cover? |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 10:47:32 AM EST
[#1]
Did a few ride alongs with ISP. One of the troopers would say "Time to put on my Boo Boo the fool hat" (yogi bear reference) before making contact with drivers. He hated that hat
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Posted: 1/10/2015 10:49:42 AM EST
[#2]
The campaign hat will at least keep the sun out of your eyes and, with a cover, the rain off of your head.
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Posted: 1/10/2015 10:51:56 AM EST
[#3]
Cunt caps are the most useless type of head gear invented. Even a beret is better at keeping your head warm.
Campaign hats keep the sun and rain off your head. They're useful. I always thought the old traditional billed cap was a pretty useless type but you don't see them as much anymore. |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 10:52:35 AM EST
[#4]
They both look fucking horrible.
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Posted: 1/10/2015 10:54:54 AM EST
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Cunt caps are the most useless type of head gear invented. Even a beret is better at keeping your head warm. Campaign hats keep the sun and rain off your head. They're useful. I always thought the old traditional billed cap was a pretty useless type but you don't see them as much anymore. This. Garrison caps are useless for everyone, for every practical purpose. |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 10:56:15 AM EST
[#6]
At least No. 2 can protect you from the rain.
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Posted: 1/10/2015 10:57:47 AM EST
[#7]
I wear a campaign that. It's functional. I really appreciate it in the rain.
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Posted: 1/10/2015 10:58:34 AM EST
[#8]
Quoted:
Or the ubiquitous American State Police campaign cover? https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSyubTJRtMrZQnZYF1aTRML--wMJAhXY-_D8ZszNNd2-_OFO3d-_w That's an useful cover. It effectively blocks sun and rain. It also conveys authority. |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 10:58:44 AM EST
[#9]
At least cunt caps are comfortable. The Smoky Bear hats gave me a headache.
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Posted: 1/10/2015 10:58:59 AM EST
[#10]
I hate cunt caps! They have no purpose other than to be ugly! At least the Smoky the Bear hats will keep the rain off your face and the sun out of your eyes.
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Posted: 1/10/2015 10:59:17 AM EST
[#11]
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The campaign hat will at least keep the sun out of your eyes and, with a cover, the rain off of your head. Yep. Back in the day, we wore what were called an "8 point cap". 
My training officer pointed out to me that even in the dark, if you saw the silhouette of a man with this cap on, you would know that he was a policeman. |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 11:02:20 AM EST
[#12]
No OP, THESE are the most useless hats. besides the cunt caps.
I hated these. 
We wear the Smokey for formals, otherwise it's a baseball hat or nothing. |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 11:02:31 AM EST
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Smokey the bear hat sucks! The French hat sucks. Got the bear hat at work, it's fine in the rain, but on special details in the heat holy fuck that hat. Leaves a damn ring around my head. It's a torture device other than in the rain and nothing but another item falling off of you when you got to do your job like the POS PR24 and fuck that thing to hell too. Fucking POS!
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Posted: 1/10/2015 11:03:58 AM EST
[#14]
Some of those Gendarmerie uniforms are pretty snappy.
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Posted: 1/10/2015 11:08:23 AM EST
[#15]
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No OP, THESE are the most useless hats. besides the cunt caps. I hated these.
http://www.rosensuniforms.com/avactis-images/C1001.jpg We wear the Smokey for formals, otherwise it's a baseball hat or nothing. They're hatefully ugly, but also useful. Go stand in the sun all day and see if that changes your mind. |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 11:49:31 AM EST
[#16]
The campaign hat keeps the sun off of you.
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Posted: 1/10/2015 11:51:08 AM EST
[#17]
They should just go straight to military style helmets
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Posted: 1/10/2015 11:56:18 AM EST
[#18]
Pennsylvania has found a way to make the campaign hat give you the derp:
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Posted: 1/10/2015 11:58:30 AM EST
[#19]
We are still issued the 8 point hat. I never have to wear it luckily.
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Posted: 1/10/2015 11:59:51 AM EST
[#20]
Garrison caps are the worst hats I've ever encountered.
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:00:24 PM EST
[#21]
I suspect the primary driving force behind the hated garrison/cunt cap is that it can be tucked into the belt (or epaulet, depending on custom) when indoors, leaving both hands free and not having to clamp a hat under your arm.
It's ideal when everyone is just going from one building to another, especially if they have to carry books, etc. In any other environment they suck mightily. |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:00:28 PM EST
[#22]
At least with the garrison cap you can fold it and hang it from your belt. That campaign hat is like carrying around a 14" pizza.
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:00:31 PM EST
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They're hatefully ugly, but also useful. Go stand in the sun all day and see if that changes your mind. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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No OP, THESE are the most useless hats. besides the cunt caps. I hated these.
http://www.rosensuniforms.com/avactis-images/C1001.jpg We wear the Smokey for formals, otherwise it's a baseball hat or nothing. They're hatefully ugly, but also useful. Go stand in the sun all day and see if that changes your mind. It is a "Boss of the Plains" design. The origins of the hat can be traced to the 1840s when U.S. Army mounted troops posted to the far-west sometimes wore wide-brimmed civilian hats, which were more practical than the regulation shakos and forage caps then issued.[1] The name started to be used after the 1872–1876 regulations which introduced a black felt hat — which could be drab after 1883 — for fatigue use derived from the types popularized during the American Civil War. Some were worn with campaign cords, mainly as a form of decoration. |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:00:46 PM EST
[#24]
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We are still issued the 8 point hat. I never have to wear it luckily. Lucky SOB.....Our 8-point hats are to be worn at all times....no beanies or other "smart" choices even in winter.... If command staff arrives on scene or see's you at the local gas station, and you don't have your hat, first thing outta their mouth is, "hey ____ where's your hat?" Stupid as F*CK |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:01:19 PM EST
[#25]
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Yep. Back in the day, we wore what were called an "8 point cap". Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The campaign hat will at least keep the sun out of your eyes and, with a cover, the rain off of your head. Yep. Back in the day, we wore what were called an "8 point cap". About the only thing I have left from my time on the cops is my hat. My CO dinged me at roll-call for it once, because it looked, as he put it, "defective."
My Sergeant told me, "The CO was not pleased with the "50 Missions" hat." Had buy another hat, which I would wear specifically for roll-call, and then toss back in my locker before I went out. |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:03:34 PM EST
[#26]
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That's an useful cover. It effectively blocks sun and rain. It also conveys authority. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Or the ubiquitous American State Police campaign cover? https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSyubTJRtMrZQnZYF1aTRML--wMJAhXY-_D8ZszNNd2-_OFO3d-_w That's an useful cover. It effectively blocks sun and rain. It also conveys authority. 
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:07:59 PM EST
[#27]
Ballcap in summer or beanie/watch cap in winter. Fuck anything else.
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:12:21 PM EST
[#28]
That whole "authority" look is why you see mall cops at some malls with the smokey hats. Not one practical purpose behind them having ANY hat, let alone that thing.
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:13:37 PM EST
[#29]
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The campaign hat will at least keep the sun out of your eyes and, with a cover, the rain off of your head. |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:13:47 PM EST
[#30]
What' a wrong with a campaign hat? Keeps son and rain off
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:14:43 PM EST
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: At least with the garrison cap you can fold it and hang it from your belt. That campaign hat is like carrying around a 14" pizza. |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:15:08 PM EST
[#32]
Campaign hat provides shade. Second, folks will associate it with authority (drill sergeants).
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:17:02 PM EST
[#33]
The Stetson.
Thankfully we dumped it for daily wear |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:17:06 PM EST
[#34]
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The campaign hat will at least keep the sun out of your eyes and, with a cover, the rain off of your head. This |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:17:33 PM EST
[#35]
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They both look fucking horrible. [start Drill Sergeant Roar ] (200Db+ ) Who Gave You Permission To Speak! 
[/ Drill Sergeant Roar ) |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:21:52 PM EST
[#36]
I kind of like the piss cutter on cops.
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:22:08 PM EST
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: About the only thing I have left from my time on the cops is my hat. My CO dinged me at roll-call for it once, because it looked, as he put it, "defective." My Sergeant told me, "The CO was not pleased with the "50 Missions" hat." Had buy another hat, which I would wear specifically for roll-call, and then toss back in my locker before I went out. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: The campaign hat will at least keep the sun out of your eyes and, with a cover, the rain off of your head. Yep. Back in the day, we wore what were called an "8 point cap". About the only thing I have left from my time on the cops is my hat. My CO dinged me at roll-call for it once, because it looked, as he put it, "defective." My Sergeant told me, "The CO was not pleased with the "50 Missions" hat." Had buy another hat, which I would wear specifically for roll-call, and then toss back in my locker before I went out. |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:24:21 PM EST
[#38]
How do you keep those big Stetson type hats on in the wind? I asked a cop once and the said "bobby pins"? I almost got punched
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:30:02 PM EST
[#39]
I would have thought the English bobby hat would have been included in this.
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:30:15 PM EST
[#40]
A stetson or any 'cowboy' type hat generally has a leather band around the inside.
Sounds odd but it's very grippy. If that hat fits correctly it stays on. Many hats also have very small slits in the fold just above the ear for a stampede string also. |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:33:34 PM EST
[#41]
Texas DPS (Department of Public Safety)
The Texas Rangers also wear similar head gear as do most of the state game wardens (Department of Parks and Wildlife). dp |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:33:53 PM EST
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I would have thought the English bobby hat would have been included in this. Isn't that a helmet? If so, at least it would protect your noggin. |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:35:36 PM EST
[#43]
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Pennsylvania has found a way to make the campaign hat give you the derp: http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d19/monkeybiz05/msball.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6nfYKpIUAAONQz.jpg
http://i44.tinypic.com/2zin4a9.jpg Theyre doing it wrong 
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:36:56 PM EST
[#44]
Chicago Police hats are the gayest looking.
Looks like something a cabbie or bell hop would wear... 
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I wear a campaign that. It's functional. I really appreciate it in the rain. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Add an Odd Job steel brim to it for epic awesomeness and decapitating bad guys...
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:41:00 PM EST
[#45]
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How do you keep those big Stetson type hats on in the wind? I asked a cop once and the said "bobby pins"? I almost got punched You don't You just hold them with one hand and pray they don't go flying My first week there was an obnoxious coworker who took my new Stetson, threw it on the ground stomped on it and handed it back flat He hated the world and the world returned the favor by hating him, and he died in his sleep at a young age a bitter man. |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:46:25 PM EST
[#46]
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They're hatefully ugly, but also useful. Go stand in the sun all day and see if that changes your mind. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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No OP, THESE are the most useless hats. besides the cunt caps. I hated these.
http://www.rosensuniforms.com/avactis-images/C1001.jpg We wear the Smokey for formals, otherwise it's a baseball hat or nothing. They're hatefully ugly, but also useful. Go stand in the sun all day and see if that changes your mind. Nope, I wear a baseball hat and sunscreen.
I don't mind the smokey's so much, but the buss driver hats (made out of wool no less  ) sucked big gorilla balls.
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:47:58 PM EST
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[start Drill Sergeant Roar ] (200Db+ ) Who Gave You Permission To Speak! http://www.ar15armory.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/drillsergeant.gif [/ Drill Sergeant Roar ) Quote HistoryQuoted:
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They both look fucking horrible. [start Drill Sergeant Roar ] (200Db+ ) Who Gave You Permission To Speak! http://www.ar15armory.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/drillsergeant.gif [/ Drill Sergeant Roar ) On some officer farva look alike its not getting that effect. |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:49:12 PM EST
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Pennsylvania has found a way to make the campaign hat give you the derp: http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d19/monkeybiz05/msball.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6nfYKpIUAAONQz.jpg
http://i44.tinypic.com/2zin4a9.jpg Seriously. The fucking lip strap is so fucking stupid and ugly. |
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:49:49 PM EST
[#49]
I don't mind the campaign hats in the rain. I'm on nights so nobody really gives a shit if we wear them or not
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Posted: 1/10/2015 12:50:28 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Pennsylvania has found a way to make the campaign hat give you the derp: http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d19/monkeybiz05/msball.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6nfYKpIUAAONQz.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/2zin4a9.jpg  |
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