why are boonie hats popular?

>>31514727
>blocks sun
>looks SOF

Need I say more.

>>31514727
>>no added protection
It's also light weight, and sometimes that's more important than extra protection
>>basically camo baseball cap with extra rim
I see no problem with this
>>soaked in seconds, (hypothermia anyone?)
Fucking what? Obviously if you're worried about hypothermia you'll be wearing something insulated
>>ugly???
Confirmed for shit taste
>Pros: makes you look like robin hood
Shades your head and shoulders
Keeps the sun out of your eyes
Breaks up your outline
Lightweight
Breathable
>i dont get it
ur a faget

>>31514727
i read something once about how properly applied headgear can make the shape of a human head less obvious, which sounds beneficial

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>>31514727
1) They think it looks cool
2) Has some practicality
3) CODfags

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Say what?

>>31514727
Because baseball hats don't stop skin cancer on ears or the back of the neck

Sun burns increase risk of BCC & SCC - therefore shade helps prevent skin cancer anon

>>31514727
It keeps the sun off your head and out of your eyes while weighing basically nothing you retard.

>>31514727

Boonie hats are pimp, dude.

>>31514853
put a shirt on hippie

1: Captain Price
2: Captain Price
3: Captain Price

>>31514897
>shirts cover your neck and ears
I want to know what kind of shirts you're wearing

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>>31514727
>feels like you're wearing nothing at all (nothing at all, nothing at all...)
>fold it up and stuff it in your pocket if you like
>keeps the sun out and your dome ventilated
>a e s t h e t i c

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>>31514929
>hearing protection

>>31514792
/thread

>>31514929
hooded shirt

>>31515069
Ok Travon

>>31515069
>hooded shirt
>in hot/sunny weather
All the hooded shirts I know are meant for insulation and not at all suited for this kind of use. Is there any necessary reason hoods shouldn't work where hats obviously do? I suspect yes, but I obviously have no experience and no facts to back up that claim.

>pull the cords above your head
>turn the hat sideways
>we Napoleon now

>>31514792
/thread
also underrated thread

>>31515069
Nigger

>>31514792
Second post superior post

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>>31514727
it makes you a police suspect

>>31514727
go outside some day, it might make more sense.

>>31514727
>lightweight
>cheap
>blocks sun
>blocks sun from eyes
>blocks sun from ears
>blocks sun from neck
>same thing for rain

Literally best hat. If you're in cold country without a proper insulated hat you deserve the hypothermia you get, you retard.

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>>31515748
well to be fair the guy was recording suspicious areas, maybe for penetration testing?

Light and foldable.
I use my backpacking but if your not SOF you look like a goober.

>>31514727
I started wearing them in the late 90s, I figured out that hats are more appealing than sunscreen. I'm not really a military wannabe so I always bought the desert sand non camouflage one. I found sun hats made by Columbia and just wear those now. They used to make one that was desert sand and black mesh all around the head, lets lots of air through and I haven't gotten burned through it yet but I do put sunscreen on the (now bald) spots when its really sunny out. (bought 2 when I realized they were being fazed out) i still have my last cotton booney hat for when I'm working on my car, all dirty and sweat stained now. Also, the columbia hat has an elastic draw string so you don't really need the chin strap, I just flip it up in the hat before I put it on.

>>31517244
now this is a scary looking couple

>>31515069
hahahahahhhah god youre a fag

i work in the sun all day and burn easily. these hats save my life. its this hat or soak my head in sunscreen and burn anyway.

baseball hats don't shade your ears or neck.

>>31514727
It's a lightweight, soft wide-brimmed hat. It's extremely useful. It's what I used to always wear camping. Sure, your standard grunt should generally be wearing a helmet on your average patrol, but it's still a great option, especially for unconventional type stuff of non-combat related stuff. I mean damn, keep that sun off your neck!

>>31518698
Same here. They're nice.

>>31515069
Excuse me, I'm with the neighborhood watch...

Because in vietnam, US troops would be wandering through the jungle and brush with an almighty

>SKREEEEEEEEOONNNKK!

From tree branches scraping along your helmets. Someone finally pointed out that the fellows wearing boonie hats didn't have this issue.

>>31514727
>>soaked in seconds, (hypothermia anyone?)
Fuck you I wear mine in the rain all the time

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>>31514727
I never liked the look of them in uniform. It looks sloppy to me. But I'd imagine you could tuck a few rounds in the MOLLE strap going around it. I'd wear it in civies as a sun hat on one of my days where I just give no fucks.

>>31519000
>sun hat
My bad. I meant gardening hat.

>>31514727
boonies > all other hats

keeps the sun off you better than anything exept a sombrero or one of those chinese hats (which arn't bad at all)

you can fold them up unlike a lot of other hats, so you can keep them on your person

tactically advantageous, because it shades the whole head thus breaking up the light profile of the face which is instinctively noticable
also it's profile doesn't change when you look around, so it makes you marginally harder to notice for that reason

when you are lying face down, you just tip it onto the back of your head, so you can lie out in the sun if you really have to

at night you can do the same but with the hat acting as breathing space to try and keep bugs out of your mouth

dowsides:
bit of a bloody nuisance when wet, tends to flow around everywhere unlike a beanie

not compatible with a helmet

kind of hard to keep your ears warm, even with a scarf/shagme/some other scarf like thing

>>31518962
maybe the US troops were green, if it was me Iwould have just sewed a cloth cover over my lid

>>31519012
>be me
>gardening
>stained cargo pants, boonie, green jacket
>doing some weeding in a veg bed
>somone wanders into my garden
>stealth mode engage
>I'm just a squinty pair of eyes in a bean patch
>person comes closeer, it's just my neibour
>stand up and call out hey
>scare shit out of said neibour, who was like two meters away and just thought I was a bean or something

Hipsters hate them. Reason enough.

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What are these hats called, with on side of the brim attached to the dome?

They tried to enforce a boonie ban in the FOBBEST of all fobs in iraq. i just wore it and never got bitched out. Its fucking issued gear. Common sense or I guess even some dick sucking moto fag didn't want to justify lighting up some Juinor Enlisted Warrior (JEW) for getting out of the sun.

>sgt maj yelling
>YOU WILL NOT CALL THEM BOOTS YOU WILL CALL THEM JUNIOR ENLISTED WARRIORS
>whole division thinking "jews"?

he had to have been doing it on purpose no way he was that oblivious.

>>31519820
bush hat

>>31519820
Australian slouch/bush hat. They pin the brim up so that a rifle can be slung on the left shoulder without knocking the hat off.

>>31519887
what if you right shoulder arm?

>>31519820

Gay.

>>31514792
This

>>31514727
>basically camo baseball cap with extra rim
You already answered the question, numbnuts.

>>31519893
then you do the other side

>>31514727
Enjoy worms growing under the skin of your head when not wearing it in the jungle.

>>31514727
It has no ballistic protection which is fine considering it has no weight to it. You can water proof them or buy ones that are. Ugly is a personal preference.

As others have said it helps hide the shape of your head, blocks sun and rain more so that a baseball hat. The strap around the base of the head can hold foliage for commando camo.

In my personal usage I find it also helps to a degree in keeping brush off your face and away from your neck and ears. Also keeps pine needles and such from dropping down your shirt and being stuck in itchy limbo until you can take all your shit off.

>>31520173
tilly hats are loose as fuck, they could still get in there easily

>>31514727
>>soaked in seconds, (hypothermia anyone?)
i dont know what kind you wear but most of mine are treated to be waterproof.

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>>31514727
Someone's never gotten a blistering sunburn on their neck
>Not waterproofing all you shit with Scotchgard
>Not operating in full woodland camo BDUs with a boonie hat, Alice gear, and m16A2 clone

Are you autistic OP? It's a hat. It does hat things.

>>31514727
Also most can be folded into a tricorner hat for muh milita feels.

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Boonies saved my life.

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Brim too floppy.
Totally untippable.
euph0ric/10

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>>31517179
Huh. What coat is that?

>>31514727
Why are shirts so popular?
>no added protection
>basically a tank top with sleeves
>soaked in seconds, (hypothermia anyone?)
>ugly???

Pros: makes you look like robin hood

i dont get it

>>31521469
s4 promotable

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>>31514727
Its a camoed fishing hat.

Fishermen like fishing hats, because they're good hats.

Basically a tactical fedora.

A SEXY tactical fedora.

I wish I hadn't lost mine.

>>31523346
Nah if they make me a SGT I'll fail my pt tests to get kicked out.

>be me
>be in the sun
>burning my fucking face off
>see camo fisherman's hat like thing in store
>buy it
>put it on head
>now I am not burning my fucking face off red every single day
That is why they are popular. They protect your face from the sun
implying i will ever wear sunscreen

>>31514727
>It was issued gear
>Popular

Maybe popular for gear queer civvie fags. Otherwise popular doesn't apply.

>>31523286
Underrated

>>31514727
>(hypothermia anyone?)
never been outside in your life confirmed

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As a civilian who wont be wearing a helmet a decent hat makes more sense since it will be on your head and not crushed up and stowed when you would have to wear a helmet in the military.

Akubra make good hats, I believe they make Stetsons under license also.

A good hat is warm when its cold, cool when its hot and makes being outside in rain alot more tolerable keeping it off your face and neck. My Akubra Territory can be completely saturated and the brim still holds its shape up. You can steam them to change the pinch you like, I prefer a campaign/montana pinch so rain doesnt pool in it.

Inside the sweatband you can easily stow a few lightweight items, personally I have a sabiki rig in mine.