Throughout the movie some officers, including General Savage, and some enlisted men are seen wearing their hats indoors. One of e first thing one learns in basic training is to remove your hat indoors. You only wear your hat indoors when you are carrying side arms.
shareNot only that, but if anyone is caught wearing a cap inside the Officers Club bar, in addition, the offender is required to buy a round of drinks for everyone present. In the scene when Savage encounters Major Cobb for the first time and admonishes him to remove his cap, in real life someone else would have caught Cobb and made him buy the round (traditionally by ringing a bell at the bar) long before Savage would have walked in.
shareThroughout the movie some officers, including General Savage, and some enlisted men are seen wearing their hats indoors. One of e first thing one learns in basic training is to remove your hat indoors. You only wear your hat indoors when you are carrying side arms.
This is going to sound silly, but I have always wondered why a lot of the enlisted men in the movie (and the TV series) wore hats but the officers wore caps. I know on the TV series Gen. Crowe and Major Cobb wore the caps sometimes. Could someone please explain this to me?
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Movies and TV shows are not documentaries.
If you examine photographs and videos that captured VIII Bomber Command (later changed to the 8th Air Force), you will see examples of personnel wearing:
• Crusher caps
• Garrison caps
• Field caps
• Bomber caps
• Winter/Summer Flying caps
• Flying helmets
More often or not, officers can be seen wearing the crusher caps or garrison caps. Although there are examples of officers wearing flying helmets and bomber caps as well. I suspect it was personal preference and based on the commanders uniform guidance.
"Toto, I've [got] a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
Hey folks,
Uniform wardrobe in the warzone will vary considerably and often is driven by local circumstances such as weather conditions and, of course, the commanding officer's orders. What slays me is that so many GIs in Hollywood films never seem to have learned to salute properly. In all the years I worked for the Army, most real GIs managed to salute in a reasonably proper salute. In Hollywood films, however, you rarely see a proper, smart salute.
Best wishes,
Dave Wile
Uniform wardrobe in the warzone will vary considerably and often is driven by local circumstances such as weather conditions and, of course, the commanding officer's orders.
What slays me is that so many GIs in Hollywood films never seem to have learned to salute properly. In all the years I worked for the Army, most real GIs managed to salute in a reasonably proper salute. In Hollywood films, however, you rarely see a proper, smart salute.