Red beret

The red beret is a military beret worn by many military , paramilitary, commando, and police forces but it mostly refers to Airborne troops all around the world.

Carlists

The red beret was worn as a distinguishing device by Carlist Guías de Navarra (Navarre Guides) soldiers in the First Carlist War, encouraged by their commander Tomás de Zumalacárregui. Regular Carlists wore a black beret. The red beret became widespread amongst the Carlists in the Second Carlist War, it later became an emblem of Carlists in general, often with a yellow pom pom or tassel.[1] See also the Requetés, (Spanish:Hunting callers) a type of volunteer unit during the Spanish Civil War.

The red beret was also worn by the Chapelgorris (Spanish:Red caps) who fought against the Carlists in the First Carlist War.

Airborne forces
  • The 82nd Airborne Division (United States Army)
  • The 173rd Airborne Brigade (United States Army)
  • Elements of the United States Army Special Operations Command
  • The Air force Combat Control Team(CCT) (Republic of Korea Airforce)
  • The Special Air force Rescue Team(SART) (Republic of Korea Airforce)
  • The Brigada de Fusileros Paracaidistas (Mexican Army)
  • The Parachute Infantry Brigade (Brazilian Army)
  • The 4th Parachute Brigade (Argentina)
  • The Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)
  • The Italian Folgore Parachute Brigade
  • The French Paratroopers from the 11e Brigade parachutiste (11th Parachute Brigade) and the Brigade des forces spéciales terre (French Army Special Forces Brigade). Only legionnaires paratroopers of the 2eREP wear green berets.
  • 35th Paratroopers Brigade of the Israeli Defense Forces
  • 63rd Parachute Battalion (Serbia)
  • The Dutch Army's air maneuver brigade, 11 Luchtmobiele Brigade
  • 71st Airmobile Brigade and 5th Airmobile Brigade (Hellenic Army)
  • 42nd Airborne Brigade (42 Brigada de Infantería Paracaidista) of the Venezuelan Army
  • Parachute Jaeger Battalion of Utti Jaeger Regiment, Finnish defence forces
  • The 6th Airborne Brigade of Task Force White Eagle, Polish Armed Forces
  • Austrian Jägerbattalion 25
  • Parachute Regiment India
  • 50th Parachute Brigade units India
  • Special Frontier Force India
  • Special Group India
  • Marine Commandos India
  • IAF Garud India
  • Parachute Battalion, Indo-Tibetan Border Police India
  • Force 1, Maharashtra Police India

Military police

Red berets are worn by the military police of many NATO and Commonwealth of Nations militaries.

Red Beret-wearing, British, Royal Military Police member uses field glasses to look across the Berlin Wall from a viewing platform on the western side, 1984.

Paramilitary forces
  • Special units of the Internal Troops of the Russian MVD
  • JSO (Special Operations Unit) of Serbia[3]
  • Rhodesian Ministry of Internal Affairs (Intaf) in the Rhodesian Bush War
  • General Service Unit of Kenya
  • Ulster Resistance of Northern Ireland

Commando forces
Malaysian Maritime STAR commandos with scarlet red coloured beret.

Other military units
U.S. Air Force Combat Controller red beret
A U.S. Air Force Special Tactics Officer participating in a unit redesignation ceremony wearing his red beret

The following military units wear red berets:

The following military units formerly wore red berets:

Police forces

Non-military

Native American Veteran Organizations
  • The American Indian Movement, Native American Indians whom were former U.S. military veterans, have adopted the use of the red beret as one of their Native warrior society symbols back in 1970. The Red Beret is also in use by Native American warrior societies and tribal government police, Law Enforcement and by members and veterans of Native American organizations such as the TIMB Taino Indian Movement of Boriken (Puerto Rico).

Films

Comic books

Others

See also

Notes
  1. p.32 MacClancy, Jeremy The Decline of Carlism University of Nevada Press, 2000
  2. Military Police requests rights to process traffic violators (in Estonian)
  3. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101010319-102066,00.html
  4. Clang Garcia (Discovereats)
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