here's a joke I think you'll like A Ranger goes gator hunting A Ranger decides one day that he wants to go gator hunting and make some boots, so he gets dressed and packs his gear. He then stops at a local tackle shop to get some bait and tips on where he would have the best luck. The shopkeep tells him where to go and sells him some bait and as the Ranger starts to leave he says: “I sent some Marines out that way a couple days ago and haven’t heard from them. Can you check on them while you’re out there?” The Ranger agrees and sets out arriving at the bayou a short while later. As he’s setting up, he notices the two Marines a little ways from him, with a massive pile of dead gators next to them. He decides to greet the Marines but as he’s walking to them a giant gator leaps out of the water at one of them. The second Marine tackles it to the ground and shoves a knife through it’s jaw. The Ranger rushes over to check on them and asks if they’re okay when one of the Marines looks at the dead gator and says: “Damnit! This one ain’t wearin’ boots either!”
@@lord_raindrops237 marines fight harder not smarter and I mean "NOT SMARTER" haha! That is what I got from what I understand from military videos so far.
@@lord_raindrops237 the Marines thought that the gators had boots on instead of skinning the gator and making boots out of it because Marines ain't the smartest bunch
@This Apple Judges bruh not the millennials talking like they didn't join the army because old style video games. Gen z is still doing that. But better. I know I know it must be hard for you to accept. But warrior genes don't die.
When I was a 2LT in 1976, I had the crease in my baseball cap which made it easier to stuff the cap in my belt when inside. I thought the Ranger Roll was because they were just trying to look like Marines.
@@k.s.4209 What we were taught in BC was to roll the body of the cover _to_ the brim and then stuff it into a thigh pocket, brim up. That way you could just snap it out and hook it on your head. The brim curve was determined by the size of your leg. _Technically_ we were taught to fold it twice: grasp the bill in one hand, remove cover, use the other hand to invert the back half inside the front and then fold the top down. But it almost instantly turned into "punch and scrunch", which is a method I'd already seen Fleet Marines using before I enlisted but hadn't understood at the time. Further refinement made it a one-handed operation - grab the _back_ of the cover, thumb on top, fold inward as you yank it off, scrunch it forward with the brim braced against your leg as you pull the pocket flap up with the same hand, shove down.
When you bend your brim (which has nothing to do with a "Ranger Roll") it makes the Patrol Cap (PC) easier to store in your thigh pocket of your uniform and are more comfortable to wear. The "Ranger Roll" is called that because The Rangers roll the side and back hems of their PCs around the crown of the head.
Yeah, but the difference is Grunts and Jarheads actually know how to fight .. And the Air Force goes in and rescues them when they forget their crayons, get trapped by the enemy and cry: "Pajamas, come save us!" .. But the Navy just sits in their bathtub playing with their little boat, 1,000 miles offshore, scrapping rust off the F35 that just lost the ball and went swimming in the pond ..
All depends, if you are in a combat unit you stick your hat in your cargo pocket and wear your helmet. Pencil pushers spread their hat on their desk that is why is not bented.
It used to be because the ranger leadership encouraged, by way of ignoring, the non-regulation shaping and rolling of the PC. This changed in the 2000s when everyone started doing it and it became the norm, even though it’s still called out in 670-1 as being out of regulation.
My uncle was a Lieutenant in the Rangers his base in Florida, had an alligator named big John in the 90s I loved going too see him every year.he gave me one of his hats it’s like a treasure of mine he also said rangers lead the way there also all bad ass soldiers hats off to all of them as well too all of the United States soldiers Thank you.
As a former USAF Security Policeman I can attest that the same goes for berets & boonie hats. With berets, the more the crest moves to the left, and more angled that it sits on your head the "cooler" you are. With boonie hats, the "dweebs" wear it with the strings on top making it look like a "cowboy" hat. The "cool kids" wear it like an "old school" (1900-1941 era) campaign hat, or the in the "Gabby Hayes"/"Carlos Hathcock" style.
Maybe times have changed but we always called the top of the hat where it’s rolled a certain way to create “rain gutters” as the infamous “Ranger Roll” not the curve of the hat brim
When my husband transferred from navy to army, he automatically started his roll one he hit bootcamp so by the time I saw him in his Army uniform his cap had a middle to tight roll. He wore it that way because it actually fit better over his glasses. He switched out to contacts when he could but if he had to wear them, which in bootcamp he wore only glasses, then the cap fit better. He rarely wore a cap beside required but when he did it was had similar curve for same reasons. His contacts weren't cheap. Gas permeable .
Im the Bundeswehr, you kinda have to "ranger roll" the cap, otherwise it'll droop. No matter how much starch you use, it never seems to sit correctly without a roll
You can absolutely just go straight to a range rule, because it's a roll not a bend. You just roll the brim as tight as you can put her rubber band around it a couple times to hold it and then let it sit for a little while. It's plastic, it's flexible, if you don't fold it, it won't snap.
in the swedish military we fold the cap to put it in our pocket. The cap takes the shape of such a sharp V that it stops serving its purpose of blocking the sun
Wet the cap's brim and use rubber bands around a large can of coffee or other cylinder until it dries. That is how you make a rolled cap without breaking it.
For plastic brims. Get a pot of water up to boiling. Turn it off. Submerge the brim of the cap into the water for 5-7 seconds. The molecules of the plastic will become temporarily moldable. If you do what you described while the brim is still heated. Not only do you have the roll. But the brim will cool down and become forever fixed in that roll. It will not return to its unrolled form.
Was a Marine in the 80s I showed up in peak physical condition I just finished playing two years of junior hockey in Canada so it was not really appreciated that I showed up probably in the best shape of my life I went out of my way to help some of the less conditioned soldiers just to get some slack take it off my back
The Ranger roll was when the top of the cap is rolled in, it doesn’t have anything to do with the bill. Hence NCOS having Soldiers “pop that Ranger roll Private”
Four of my brothers served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam/Cold War era. One of them who is about 10 years older than me, used to wear his sailor hat tilted forward kind of low down on his forehead. Those were the sailors with attitude. I am not sure because I haven’t talk to any sailors lately but my brother told me that they’re not allowed to tilt their hat forward anymore.
I worked on aircraft. The cap was in my pocket to keep it from possibly getting sucked down an intake. My BDU's got an oil change every 3 months whether they needed it or not. But the planes flew so no one cared. Fly, fight, win.
Lol at OSUT we got caught rolling up bay towels and using super heavy duty rubber bands and shoelaces to put a solid round brim on PCs. The drills didn't even care, they laughed
I was convinced the ranger roll was the way the material of the hat that rested on your head was reduced by rolling it into itself but maybe I'm wrong.
As a marine we always made our covers look good didn't matter as a pfc or gunny they had a good roll and put on our heads properly to look good if not you got your shit kicked in. Hell my old covers still have starch and can put em on and look the way they are supposed to look
So.... Dont trust soldiers who obey regulation, got it..... This is the prime example of scum in the military today..... "If he obeys regulation dont trust him"
@@themanwithnoname1839Noone is taught to keep the PC's brim flat, and most sane people will boot blouse properly because that's precisely what they're taught to do
@@themanwithnoname1839 Nah bro as a Paralegal NCO, that statement is like 99% true. Mfs be having the most fucked up charges and when I see them, goofy flat brim PC with pant legs tucked into their boots with the strings hangin out.
Here in sweden we actually make sure our caps are really fucking bent, cuz you need to put your cap in your pocket when entering any building or vehicle
Fools in AIT would be like "un-ranger roll that hat!" EDIT: i didn't like calling it a hat at first...but some time later I did so after I hated calling it a cover or PC for computer reasons.
I was in a Program similar to the Boys course called Young Marines growing up. It was ran all by retired marines. They taught us to wrap the brim around a soup can, put rubber bands on it, while soaking in warm water. IDK it might just be a marine thing.
It's a lot like faded, soft uniforms; it's experienced a lot of wear and experience. What's funny is that the experienced troops will swap their worn gear for the newbies' fresh uniforms, who want to look salty and seasoned.
Fun fact: Rangers wear there caps that way to signify the difference in Rangers and regular Army. It was only authorized for rangers to wear there caps that way. Now they’ve moved on to the beret.
Similarly if you're in an airborne unit the longer the fold the more attitude. When I was on status my fold was so deep I couldn't see out of my right eye.
The "ranger roll" is created by folding your hat and putting it in your cargo pocket. Then basically sitting in an office chair for eight hours with the hat in your pocket.
In the Marine Corps I would take the bill on my cover and bend both sides together putting a crease in the center. Then about a 1/4" in a crease on both sides so there was an actual vertical ends on my cover. I would split the material on the back side and insert a peice of custom made plastic to hold that shape. The Marines cover had small panels around the sides of the cover. I would insert small peices of plastic here too. My covers would hold the designed shape like no one else's. I also prefaded my uniforms by soaking them in a 50/50 H2O&Bleach solution for 4 hours and then wash them. Because the Marine Corps never actually issued an order retiring Vietnam jungle Tiger patern camo it was technically usable. I showed up to formation one day with my dad's old Army Tiger bdus with the USMC iron on emblem and all. Our platoon Sergent did not like this but our Company CO loved it. He ordered 2 jungle Tiger uniforms for everyone in the company. From then on we wore these on Thursdays and Fridays until the base comander got wind of this and put a stop to it. He did not want us standing out any more than we already did as a Recon Battalion with Armored vehicles no other units beyond our sister Battalions in Camp Pendleton and Okinawa had.
I Ranger rolled my soft cap... for the look. I was an M1A2 driver. I was low-speed, high drag. I was a PT test dropout, showing up to PT formation drunk (y'all remember those reeds in the wind, swaying), I threw up on more 5 mile runs than I care to remember (our 1st SGT was a fucking marathon runner, he would do 5 miles with the try-hards before PT formation.) I SUCKED at PT...but I was a fucking AMAZING driver. I could give my TC/gunner a rock solid firing platform. So while I got shit for being a disgusting fatbody during PT tests, my NCOs were always happy to have me in the driver's hole. 19k strong, 1st CAV! 🤣
Reminds me of in the marines we’d purposely take ass chewings and wear old worn cammies that showed we’d been there and done it. Where the fresh boots all had brand new joints
here's a joke I think you'll like
A Ranger goes gator hunting
A Ranger decides one day that he wants to go gator hunting and make some boots, so he gets dressed and packs his gear. He then stops at a local tackle shop to get some bait and tips on where he would have the best luck.
The shopkeep tells him where to go and sells him some bait and as the Ranger starts to leave he says: “I sent some Marines out that way a couple days ago and haven’t heard from them. Can you check on them while you’re out there?”
The Ranger agrees and sets out arriving at the bayou a short while later.
As he’s setting up, he notices the two Marines a little ways from him, with a massive pile of dead gators next to them.
He decides to greet the Marines but as he’s walking to them a giant gator leaps out of the water at one of them. The second Marine tackles it to the ground and shoves a knife through it’s jaw.
The Ranger rushes over to check on them and asks if they’re okay when one of the Marines looks at the dead gator and says:
“Damnit! This one ain’t wearin’ boots either!”
I don't understand
🤣🤣
Damn, I bet those Marines worked up an appetite that not even 10 crayola boxes will sate.
@@lord_raindrops237 marines fight harder not smarter and I mean "NOT SMARTER" haha! That is what I got from what I understand from military videos so far.
@@lord_raindrops237 the Marines thought that the gators had boots on instead of skinning the gator and making boots out of it because Marines ain't the smartest bunch
**snaps his cap in half**
Oh I'm F'ing bringing it
My friends patrol cap looks like a upside down V after a few months of having to deal with hundreds of 1.0 gpa 18 year olds
@This Apple Judges depends on the unit
As the age old saying goes, "if you're not smart, you're gonna be strong."
After having to deal with blue falcons like the pog that makes these videos!
@This Apple Judges bruh not the millennials talking like they didn't join the army because old style video games. Gen z is still doing that. But better.
I know I know it must be hard for you to accept. But warrior genes don't die.
That's what I figured lmao crunching your hat so you don't crunch their necks sounds about right
When I was a 2LT in 1976, I had the crease in my baseball cap which made it easier to stuff the cap in my belt when inside. I thought the Ranger Roll was because they were just trying to look like Marines.
Funny, I had a dream last night of fishing my cover out of a cargo pocket. Flat brims will not abide! Always folded mine into more of a duck bill.
@@k.s.4209 What we were taught in BC was to roll the body of the cover _to_ the brim and then stuff it into a thigh pocket, brim up. That way you could just snap it out and hook it on your head. The brim curve was determined by the size of your leg.
_Technically_ we were taught to fold it twice: grasp the bill in one hand, remove cover, use the other hand to invert the back half inside the front and then fold the top down. But it almost instantly turned into "punch and scrunch", which is a method I'd already seen Fleet Marines using before I enlisted but hadn't understood at the time. Further refinement made it a one-handed operation - grab the _back_ of the cover, thumb on top, fold inward as you yank it off, scrunch it forward with the brim braced against your leg as you pull the pocket flap up with the same hand, shove down.
@@Azlehria interesting, never had a course on the folding of the cover in the AF during basic or otherwise '07-'12.
@@k.s.4209 Hardly a course, just one of the many little things taught in that first 48-hour day in receiving.
@@Azlehria ah yes, I arrived at basic a day late - thanks to my recruiter needing numbers, so I missed out on the introductions
"ha you think you're a tough guy!?"
*folds cap*
"dear god!!"
@@Its_Captain_Jack_Sparrow the roughest toughest man In bikini bottom for sure
theres more
When you bend your brim (which has nothing to do with a "Ranger Roll") it makes the Patrol Cap (PC) easier to store in your thigh pocket of your uniform and are more comfortable to wear.
The "Ranger Roll" is called that because The Rangers roll the side and back hems of their PCs around the crown of the head.
When I was young that’s how we all wore are ball caps, I see these straight brims and think it looks funny
It is funny! they all look like babyface finster with their dad's hat on.
It does look funny
It's still a southern thing! First thing I do with a new hat is bend the bill
Always thought it looked funny
There is a whole set of perverts out there with flat bills and a crooked way to wear it.
When I was in...Ranger Roll was only authorized for Rangers
now everyone gets black berets like Oprah, thanks Shinseki!
@@dubya5 lol true
Same, but people do it anyway and the Sergeants get tired of smoking people all day while they have stuff to do.
It wasn't authorized..it was just accepted that the rangers did their own shit.
@@beardedking247sua sponte
That’s like the wings on our Navy Dixie Cups.
Not the same
@@flight2k5- Why do you say that?
Yeah, but the difference is Grunts and Jarheads actually know how to fight ..
And the Air Force goes in and rescues them when they forget their crayons, get trapped by the enemy and cry: "Pajamas, come save us!" ..
But the Navy just sits in their bathtub playing with their little boat, 1,000 miles offshore, scrapping rust off the F35 that just lost the ball and went swimming in the pond ..
@@flight2k5 tf you mean. It’s the same shit. The more the bend the saltier the dog.
My lid just ended up that way because I kept sitting on it and had to finesse it back into shape before formation 🤣
With our Graf caps, a LOT of attitude was possible.
All depends, if you are in a combat unit you stick your hat in your cargo pocket and wear your helmet. Pencil pushers spread their hat on their desk that is why is not bented.
It used to be because the ranger leadership encouraged, by way of ignoring, the non-regulation shaping and rolling of the PC. This changed in the 2000s when everyone started doing it and it became the norm, even though it’s still called out in 670-1 as being out of regulation.
The POGs and REMFs need to remember, a straight line is one of the most unnatural things in nature.
My Dad retired as a MSG in 2015. His cap was touching both sides of his temple.
Agreed. A way to cheat getting that roll quick is wetting down your pc and then put a rubber band loosely around the bill to force the curve.
My uncle was a Lieutenant in the Rangers his base in Florida, had an alligator named big John in the 90s I loved going too see him every year.he gave me one of his hats it’s like a treasure of mine he also said rangers lead the way there also all bad ass soldiers hats off to all of them as well too all of the United States soldiers Thank you.
Everybody gangsta till the commander comes in with a folded patrol cap
As a former USAF Security Policeman I can attest that the same goes for berets & boonie hats. With berets, the more the crest moves to the left, and more angled that it sits on your head the "cooler" you are. With boonie hats, the "dweebs" wear it with the strings on top making it look like a "cowboy" hat. The "cool kids" wear it like an "old school" (1900-1941 era) campaign hat, or the in the "Gabby Hayes"/"Carlos Hathcock" style.
I am 52 and been rollin my caps like that since childhood.
Maybe times have changed but we always called the top of the hat where it’s rolled a certain way to create “rain gutters” as the infamous “Ranger Roll” not the curve of the hat brim
i can hear it now, the distant cries of a boot getting the boot for cracking their cap after watching this video 😂
y is this guy so good at commentating on our culture?
Ranger-roll status is the same as an average Marine's cover! You learn how to do a nice, semi-permanent roll in bootcamp
My dad had a Ranger roll, but he was one of the most light hearted people and the toughest at the same time.
When my husband transferred from navy to army, he automatically started his roll one he hit bootcamp so by the time I saw him in his Army uniform his cap had a middle to tight roll. He wore it that way because it actually fit better over his glasses. He switched out to contacts when he could but if he had to wear them, which in bootcamp he wore only glasses, then the cap fit better. He rarely wore a cap beside required but when he did it was had similar curve for same reasons. His contacts weren't cheap. Gas permeable .
this has never been more true
Hhmmp, I do the same to my baseball cap to keep the sun out my eyes.
There’s like 3 different things I can think of off the top of my head that are called Ranger roll
Im the Bundeswehr, you kinda have to "ranger roll" the cap, otherwise it'll droop. No matter how much starch you use, it never seems to sit correctly without a roll
You can absolutely just go straight to a range rule, because it's a roll not a bend. You just roll the brim as tight as you can put her rubber band around it a couple times to hold it and then let it sit for a little while. It's plastic, it's flexible, if you don't fold it, it won't snap.
in the swedish military we fold the cap to put it in our pocket. The cap takes the shape of such a sharp V that it stops serving its purpose of blocking the sun
I was in for 17 years and I haven’t heard of half or more of the stuff he brings up.
It's just how country boy's wear in our caps the curve helps the fit and keeps it on your head.
Mine was flat, but everyone knew who Spaghetti was.
Wet the cap's brim and use rubber bands around a large can of coffee or other cylinder until it dries. That is how you make a rolled cap without breaking it.
For plastic brims. Get a pot of water up to boiling. Turn it off. Submerge the brim of the cap into the water for 5-7 seconds. The molecules of the plastic will become temporarily moldable. If you do what you described while the brim is still heated. Not only do you have the roll. But the brim will cool down and become forever fixed in that roll. It will not return to its unrolled form.
You might be wondering why he’s not talking about drill hats it’s because everyone knows you never mess with a drill instructor
Was a Marine in the 80s I showed up in peak physical condition I just finished playing two years of junior hockey in Canada so it was not really appreciated that I showed up probably in the best shape of my life I went out of my way to help some of the less conditioned soldiers just to get some slack take it off my back
The Ranger roll was when the top of the cap is rolled in, it doesn’t have anything to do with the bill. Hence NCOS having Soldiers “pop that Ranger roll Private”
It is important, that the shadow hides your eyes.
By the time I got out, my patrol cap had an upside-down U in it. Still have the damn thing in my duffel bag!
I’m in rotc and when they gave me cap, I thought the person before me had broken it. It was not a curve, it was a point
I try to crease the cap as much as possible but my glasses ruin it.
i did this to my caps in the 80s, never hears of "ranger roll" i picked it up from the southern boys, thought it looked cool. still do it today
Military police berets and baseball caps, gotta love them.
Imagine thinking the shape of something determines someone’s attitude
Drill Sargents with straight hats
This gives me “I’ve never been in the military but my cousin told me so and he is in the army” vibes.
do you know this guy's background
When my dad was in the army he would just crease the cap on a can of some sort.
+10 to Intimidation
-2 to peripheral vision
Why is this spot on
In Germany we say hate fold. And the drill sergeants were sporting it seriously.
That last ranger is looking past the photographer. Poor guy
For civilians, the curve of the visor is directly proportional to how much of a choad the guy is.
I like how for the marine corps its all about how "salty" and how faded your cammies are
As a army vet in my past life I can confirm this is true
I saw this and the first thing that came to mind was "if your patrol cap bill is flat you're probably a goober" and yes it was in his voice
Flat brim patrol cap: Suuhhhhh dude 🥴
*damn I didn’t know you were chill like that*
My uncle was in the navy and when I looked at his hat I always asked myself why it was so bent and now everything makes a lot more sense
Four of my brothers served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam/Cold War era. One of them who is about 10 years older than me, used to wear his sailor hat tilted forward kind of low down on his forehead. Those were the sailors with attitude. I am not sure because I haven’t talk to any sailors lately but my brother told me that they’re not allowed to tilt their hat forward anymore.
I worked on aircraft. The cap was in my pocket to keep it from possibly getting sucked down an intake. My BDU's got an oil change every 3 months whether they needed it or not. But the planes flew so no one cared. Fly, fight, win.
This is the 3rd thing I've heard/seen as being referred to as the "ranger roll".
Lol at OSUT we got caught rolling up bay towels and using super heavy duty rubber bands and shoelaces to put a solid round brim on PCs. The drills didn't even care, they laughed
AIRBORNE RANGERS
Damn it
Because Marines need heroes too
I was convinced the ranger roll was the way the material of the hat that rested on your head was reduced by rolling it into itself but maybe I'm wrong.
The one with the most attitude is the one with a cap backwards
I always thought it because when they removed their cover they would fold it in half and stick it on their left shoulder Epaulette.
As a marine we always made our covers look good didn't matter as a pfc or gunny they had a good roll and put on our heads properly to look good if not you got your shit kicked in. Hell my old covers still have starch and can put em on and look the way they are supposed to look
Never trust a soldier with a flat brim and pants tucked into their boots
So.... Dont trust soldiers who obey regulation, got it..... This is the prime example of scum in the military today..... "If he obeys regulation dont trust him"
@@themanwithnoname1839Noone is taught to keep the PC's brim flat, and most sane people will boot blouse properly because that's precisely what they're taught to do
@@themanwithnoname1839 Nah bro as a Paralegal NCO, that statement is like 99% true. Mfs be having the most fucked up charges and when I see them, goofy flat brim PC with pant legs tucked into their boots with the strings hangin out.
@themanwithnoname1839 oh yeah dude the guy who is less formal is "scum" totally
The fuck are u talking about
Funny. In 1986 Straight out of Parris Island, I rolled my cover. A lot of us did.
In the swedish army the recruits bend their caps all the way to get an upside down V to protect your eyes from the sun better
drill sergeant’s caps be bent 360 degrees
The final boss of the US military is just wearing a tube
Captain price with his bendy ahh hat be like
At Bragg most people do some kinda "ranger roll", it looks more professional if done right, IMO
A British Royal Marine, Has Earned his Green Beret
Here in sweden we actually make sure our caps are really fucking bent, cuz you need to put your cap in your pocket when entering any building or vehicle
Fools in AIT would be like "un-ranger roll that hat!"
EDIT: i didn't like calling it a hat at first...but some time later I did so after I hated calling it a cover or PC for computer reasons.
I was in a Program similar to the Boys course called Young Marines growing up. It was ran all by retired marines. They taught us to wrap the brim around a soup can, put rubber bands on it, while soaking in warm water. IDK it might just be a marine thing.
During my service, anything that was different or unorthodox always had the word “ranger” somewhere lmao
It's a lot like faded, soft uniforms; it's experienced a lot of wear and experience. What's funny is that the experienced troops will swap their worn gear for the newbies' fresh uniforms, who want to look salty and seasoned.
The creasing comes back from the Civil war when the soldiers would “crush” the front
Fun fact: Rangers wear there caps that way to signify the difference in Rangers and regular Army. It was only authorized for rangers to wear there caps that way. Now they’ve moved on to the beret.
Similarly if you're in an airborne unit the longer the fold the more attitude.
When I was on status my fold was so deep I couldn't see out of my right eye.
We used to hide stuff in those folds.
...it never worked too well.
Also....it keeps the sun from the peripheral while maintaining proper placement of your cover.
The ranger roll helps it fit like a ball cap and fly off during high winds like it will do with that wide rim does.
Originally it came from stress, those taking their hat off and throwing it, etc, but the military now just does it for tradition.
What about the high speed car eyes that served little to no purpose other to look “high speed.” Great channel Essayons!!
As a Carl, mine would bend up, like a smile!
That one guy getting stereotyped after face planting
My dads was snapped in half😂😂😂😂 I understand why now lmaooo
The "ranger roll" is created by folding your hat and putting it in your cargo pocket. Then basically sitting in an office chair for eight hours with the hat in your pocket.
The guy after the 'Doesn't care what others think of him' guy looks like he bought weed from the gas station
I like this guy so much I throw a like before he even gets one word out. 🎉
My dad with the n in his hat looking like anger from inside out
It’s a whole art to how you wear your PC
True, Some people have no idea who to wear a cap or even worse a Barett.
My dad was a helicopter pilot in the army and he would crease his hats like a fucking circle
In the Marine Corps I would take the bill on my cover and bend both sides together putting a crease in the center. Then about a 1/4" in a crease on both sides so there was an actual vertical ends on my cover. I would split the material on the back side and insert a peice of custom made plastic to hold that shape. The Marines cover had small panels around the sides of the cover. I would insert small peices of plastic here too. My covers would hold the designed shape like no one else's. I also prefaded my uniforms by soaking them in a 50/50 H2O&Bleach solution for 4 hours and then wash them. Because the Marine Corps never actually issued an order retiring Vietnam jungle Tiger patern camo it was technically usable. I showed up to formation one day with my dad's old Army Tiger bdus with the USMC iron on emblem and all. Our platoon Sergent did not like this but our Company CO loved it. He ordered 2 jungle Tiger uniforms for everyone in the company. From then on we wore these on Thursdays and Fridays until the base comander got wind of this and put a stop to it. He did not want us standing out any more than we already did as a Recon Battalion with Armored vehicles no other units beyond our sister Battalions in Camp Pendleton and Okinawa had.
I Ranger rolled my soft cap... for the look. I was an M1A2 driver. I was low-speed, high drag. I was a PT test dropout, showing up to PT formation drunk (y'all remember those reeds in the wind, swaying), I threw up on more 5 mile runs than I care to remember (our 1st SGT was a fucking marathon runner, he would do 5 miles with the try-hards before PT formation.) I SUCKED at PT...but I was a fucking AMAZING driver. I could give my TC/gunner a rock solid firing platform. So while I got shit for being a disgusting fatbody during PT tests, my NCOs were always happy to have me in the driver's hole. 19k strong, 1st CAV! 🤣
Reminds me of in the marines we’d purposely take ass chewings and wear old worn cammies that showed we’d been there and done it. Where the fresh boots all had brand new joints
i'll just bend it to the max and be the nicest person possible