Any chance of just a green canvas without the Air Commando tab? Used to wear a hat like that when I was in the Navy and it drove some of the more uptight Chiefs and Officers up the wall. Every CO on the other hand loved the damn thing, in fact one asked me to get him one. This was in the late 80's with HAL-5, one of the last dedicated Huey Gunship squadrons in the Navy. Looked great with our green utilities, AKA fatigues.
Hey, missing sever hundred years of history in your description. Even is you ignore the widespread use in Europe (1700s) the first American use was in the 1860s during the American Civil War, worn by Theodore Roosevelt of the Rough Riders to name the most famous wearer.
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