Why is the boonie cap so demonized in the army?

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a co-worker in the shop had to get a skin cancer removed from his temple after he got back from Iraq - he had bee in a unit that outlawed boogie hats - he wouldn't have the cancer if he could wear a boonie hat

just like way back when - when nobody could wear sunglasses. - then the Army got the ballistic glasses, and to make soldiers want to wear them they made them as sunglasses - it happened after I left Active Duty so I didn't get to see the response?!?!

As concerns this subject I recommend a song from a few decades ago..
"Saigon Warrior" by Saul Broudy and Robin Thomas
(on Youtube)

The solution is simple; if you don't like the boonie cap...QUIT ISSUING IT! Heaven forbid somebody pin up a side or tilt down the front! The entire US Army's Good Order and Discipline" will collapse because some Specialist wore an "altered" boonie cap while on patrol in Afghanistan. How can we possibly beat the CCPA with platoons of soldiers whose hats aren't uniform? The more appropriate question would be "Why do we even have Sergeants Major in the first place?"

Some senior NCO's just need to bitch alot.......

While in Iraq with the 1st Cav, I never saw it frowned upon. A lot of guys just wore their patrol cap, but that sun was pretty fierce on the ears that way. Not wanting skin cancer, I always wore my boonie hat and no one ever said anything about it. It was an option. Same with everyone else. Now, if we wore our Stetson into the Mess Hall, the mess sergeant had fits. That's right, Mess Hall. I never agreed with this whole DFAC thing. I don't call it resisting change, I call it respecting tradition.

Never been a fan of the boonie cap, just don't like the look. I wore one once going downrange into Iraq and Kuwait in 2006, also lots of guys wore them in Thailand in the 70s... called them "go to Hell hats" as in "if you don't like my hat, you can go to Hell" :-)

Some enjoy their work more than others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oF0XYRhRvA&list=PLRDo6LhKTT8z9_LpGsFtKi1_1FCqzP7KA&index=245

The boonie cap is a patrolling cap specifically used when the need for noise and silhouette reduction justifies the trade off in security offered by a helmet. But also some people look really dumb in it