Parr said the Bancroft Cap Co. in Cabot, Ark., was the only known domestic beret manufacturer. But the company's production capacity of 100,000 berets a month was too little to meet the Army ...

Color matters. After months of wrangling with Army brass in the Pentagon, the elite Rangers have won approval to switch the color of their berets from black to tan. Col. P.K. Keen, commander of ...

Shinseki approved it Thursday. “The decision to adopt the Ranger tan beret is based upon maintaining a distinctive beret for our Rangers as the Army transitions to the black beret,” Keen said.

Two former Rangers--Dave Scott of Bozeman, Mont., and David Nielsen of Leesburg, Va.--are marching 700 miles from Ft. Benning to Washington to protest the wider use of the black beret.

An outside petition is calling for restricting who can wear the tan beret in the U.S. Army to soldiers in the 75th Ranger Regiment. The petition was posted on www.change.org by a group called SOF ...

In a concession to the elite Rangers, the Army has approved their request to switch the color of their distinctive beret to tan from the black, which in June is to be the standard-issue beret color… ...

WASHINGTON — About 200 protesters gathered Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial to demonstrate against Army plans to issue black berets to all its soldiers--an honor that had been reserved only for ...

David Nielsen pulled the black beret from the pocket of his battle dress uniform reverently, as if it were something much more than a piece of wool. For him, it was. Nielsen, a former Army Ranger ...

Members of the U.S. Army’s Special Operations Forces–the Green Berets, the Rangers, and Delta Force–appear to have been deployed to the Middle East. Another elite group, the 82 nd Airborne ...