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A member of the Marine Regiment at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii, in 2013. Woodland and desert MARPAT utility covers. The utility cover, also known as the utility cap and eight-pointed cover, is the United States Marine Corps cap, worn with their combat utility uniform. It is an eight-pointed hat, with a visor similar to a baseball cap. [1]
Marjah Marines – Marines who served in the Battle For Marjah in 2010; may be from a number of units including 1st BTN 6th Marines, 2nd BTN 6th Marines, 3rd BTN 6th Marines, and 3rd BTN 10th Marines. M – A prefix to the model number of a specific nomenclature of equipment, generally considered to denote "model" or "mark". Also us in the ...
In the Marine Raider Regiment, a captain, with the title of "team leader," commands a 14-man Marine Special Operations Team (MSOT). Marine captains also serve as executive officers (i.e., second-in-command) of infantry battalion weapons companies and some other larger combat logistics and aviation support units.
Da Hood (slang for "the neighborhood") usually refers to an underclass big-city neighborhood, with high crime rates and low-income housing. It may also refer to: Da Hood, a 1995 album by the Menace Clan; A rap group signed to Hoo-Bangin' Records; A rap supergroup; see Mack 10 Presents da Hood
Like petty officers, every chief petty officer has both a rate (unlike the land and air services, rank only refers to commissioned officers in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard) and a rating (i.e., job specialty, similar to an MOS in the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps, or an AFSC in U.S. Air Force). A chief petty officer's full title is a ...
MARPAT (short for Marine pattern) [3] is a multi-scale camouflage pattern in use with the United States Marine Corps, designed in 2001 and introduced from late 2002 to early 2005 with the Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform (MCCUU), which replaced the Camouflage Utility Uniform.
Plastic cap badges were introduced during the Second World War, when metals became strategic materials.Nowadays many cap badges in the British Army are made of a material called "stay-brite" (anodised aluminium, anodising is an electro-plating process resulting in lightweight shiny badge), this is used because it is cheap, flexible and does not require as much maintenance as brass badges.
A mariner's cap, also called a skipper's cap, sailor's cap, Dutch Boy's cap, Greek cap, fiddler's cap, or breton cap, is a peaked cap, usually made from black or navy blue wool felt, but also from corduroy or blue denim.