Glen, we didn't have beret's at that time, only special forces wore them. We had jungle boonie hats mostly for the sun and of course steel helmets. I spent the year in the jungle and I never came out for a year so a beret would have rotted off of me.
My Daughter gave me a bright red one, not something I would have worn in Viet NAM.
Dave, the 3 I built are almost finished. I just want to clean them up slightly and hit them with a little clear coat as they are galvanizes and will collect dust. I also will install a rod to hold them 3' off the ceiling, that wire is temporary. I will also need more of a floodlight as that bulb is an Edison bulb and although very cool, it won't light the Island in the kitchen
Most of the time we walked around like this because it was very hot and rained most of the time. We also didn't have electricity, plumbing, water, roofs, walls, roads, beds, tents, underwear, clean clothes or anything else but ammo, and you can't use that for underwear. It chaffs
The troops today dress much better than we did. Here we are shoveling dirt off an 8" gun that was blown over during a battle I was in. WE weren't big on haircuts because there was no place to get one. We washed our clothes when it rained and got "new" used clothes when it fell off of us.
Here is that LZ from a helocopter. I built 14 such LZs and lived on them for a year