When is the boonie cap authorized?

Anytime in the field

CDR discretion.

When I was in, ('69-'71), boonies were unauthorized.

Now my question is, are these now being made in just Multicam? Or do we think they're going to do an OCP variant?

As ordered.. or when ordered...

Common sense would dictate in a field environment, e.g. down range, etc. yet there is always command’s discretion. On my second deployment the BN CSM didn’t think they were necessary the pc was good enough, by late July he finally allowed us to wear them but the strap had be under the chin only any deviances and you banned wearing it. After much countenance he final relented on the strap issue. I had one soldier cut his off and the CSM went ballistic so that soldier lost the “privilege” of wearing it. Of course this is the same command that required us to wear pt belts with the DCU on the FOB when outside.

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Per every document I've read. It's a field headgear. So if your in the field based on your unit sop it should be authorized. But once you're on Garrison environment, you should transition back to softcap.

Had a profile to wear while on deployment because of my vitiligo. Didn't wear it because I didn't want to be different, wanted to be uniform :-)

Pretty straightforward. There's always a regulation. For this topic it's in the one covering uniforms