Bundeswehr Berets and soft caps....

**Reibert** · 01-02-2023, 10:57 PM

by oradour

And a 60's to mid 70's Airborne/Fallshirmjager beret, with early badge with no national flag motif, these came later when all of the Bundeswehr switched to berets.

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 01-02-2023 10:57 PM

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**Reibert** · 01-02-2023, 11:01 PM

A collector friend on another forum wrote:

The beret was first issued in 1971 (still without the federal flag) only for Jäger, paratroopers and tank troops.
Only with the general introduction of the beret at the BW in the late 70s and early 80s did the black, red and gold flag become the standard with the new beret insignia...

I also have a few Bundeswehr paratrooper berets lying around, here are two of them.
In one of them a handwritten entry in the lining:
Surname: illegible,
First name: UDO,
Unit: 1/271

A former paratrooper wrote:
Many exchanged the badge for that of the old type.
Wasn't wanted but tolerated.
271 was in Iserlohn, was converted to 313 after being moved.
So the statement of the former paratrooper.