Red Beret - Military Units

Military Units

The following military units wear red berets:

  • The 82nd Airborne Division (United States Army)
  • The 173rd Airborne Brigade (United States Army)
  • Elements of the The United States Army Special Operations Command
  • The Brigada de Fusileros Paracaidistas (Mexican Army)
  • The Brazilian Airborne Brigade
  • The 4th Parachute Brigade (Argentina)
  • The Singapore Armed Forces Commando Formation
  • The Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)
  • The Italian Folgore Parachute Brigade
  • The French Paratroopers from the 11e brigade parachutiste (11th Parachute Brigade) and the Brigade des forces spéciales terre (French Army Special Forces Brigade). Only legionaires paratroopers of the 2eREP wear green berets.
  • 35th Paratroopers Brigade of the Israeli Defense Forces
  • Kopassus, Indonesian Army special forces
  • The Special Services Group of the Pakistan Army.
  • Support troops in the German Bundeswehr (light red - called coral red, maroon only for airborne troops)
  • The Austrian Army Guard battalion
  • The Dutch Army's Air Mobile Force, 11 Luchtmobiele Brigade
  • 71st Airborne Brigade (Greece)
  • Turkish Army's special forces
  • United States Air Force Combat Control Team
  • 42nd Airborne Brigade (42 Brigada de Infantería Paracaidista) of the Venezuelan Army

The following military units formerly wore red berets:

  • The 1st and 2nd Canadian Infantry Battalions of the 27th Canadian Infantry Brigade in West Germany
  • The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment of Canada,
  • The Vietnamese Airborne Division (Mũ Đỏ Nhảy Dù) of the Republic of Vietnam
  • The Serbian Special Operations Unit (called "Red Berets", 'Crvene beretke')
  • 40. Fallschirmjägerbataillon Willi Sänger of the former German Democratic Republic's Nationale Volksarmee.
  • Cold War Era Spetsnaz
  • The 4th Guards Brigade (Croatia) (called "The Spiders", 'Pauci' )

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