Where did you get the hat? The Boy Scout hat is to green not brown.
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999 16:11:27 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>In a message dated 3/26/99 1:51:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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>> In the RR Leader handbook *official headgear has an option a
>> brown campaign hat...
>> NTC staff wear "Blue"
>>
>> *Does anyone wear such a hat, in their Outpost or camp?
>> *Would a tie-tac do for a Hat emblem?
>> *Is a "hat-band" cord authorized?
>>
> I have such a hat and i wear it with a gold band with the little
>acorns on
>the end. My hat is a triple straw campaign hat that is brown and it
>cost me
>about $60.00
>I use the tie tac as a hat ornament.
> As many of the other types of Rangers, like Park Rangers and such
>wear
>hats like these, the Ranger people here see it as an object of
>intimidation
>and not love. (They are wrong to rush to judgment IMHO) As I have not
>been to
>any of the advanced camps, I do not have the beret either. No around
>here
>wears those either.
> I am a hat wearing person, I am not comfortable without a hat of
>some type.
>The Brown hat with the Ranger uniform commands attention, which is
>something
>that many don't want to have any of because they don't want to explain
>to
>anyone what Rangers is. This hat compliments the uniform nicely and
>everytime
>I wear it in public, it opens up the door for witnessing opportunity
>as the
>ministry gets explained, The part about Christ comes out and GETS TOLD
>to
>someone that may not have had an interest otherwise. But since too
>many
>Commanders are intimidated by it because of a similar hat wearing
>person who
>they may have had a bad experience with, I have stopped wearing my hat
>
> I feel that it is unfortunate that so many other Commanders get
>distressed
>by it, because it was my main tool that I used in reaching people to
>tell them
>about Christ.
>It shook people. But though I feel that is what the needs of the land
>are
>they want to keep their utopian status quo. With that no one gets
>reached,
>taught or kept because no one wants to step up and do the work that
>the Lord
>has. I praise God for those who do, but I must admonish those who
>don't. My
>community is mostly military, the hat catches attention of the
>military people
>and then I have their ear. This is reaching. Mostly, now I just wear
>this hat
>when I lead the color guard in one of the local parades. Just my 2
>cents.
>
>Mike Burke
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