Helmets

[BEAR]

I left Benning in Nov. 83 and they were just beginning to get the Kevlar since the 82nd already had them. I never saw a snap-in suspension system for a M1c liner In fact I never knew they existed until after I retired and started collecting helmets.
The cold weather hat you show was issued but never used for jumping. In the winter that hat replaced the ball cap and it was rolled with rank and insignia on the front and it got the inglorious name "Buffalo Chip". Most of us would go out and buy the 1950s pile caps, they looked sharper.

BEAR