New UK Rangers cap badge

[Alan O]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2...492ab9e16af5c1

New cap badge design. Not sure about it myself!

[leigh kitchen]

Thumbs down from me, but it'd make a good logo for a computer game.

The comment's already been made -inspired by the Selous Scouts?

[Keith Blakeman]

Looks Yank to me, horrible.

[leigh kitchen]

The more I think about it the more I'm thinking it is very similar to an existing computer game logo.....

[Belfin]

Already mentioned in the article, but definitely a strange 'Selous Scouts' copy. Not at all in keeping with the 'British style' of badge either.

[enfant perdus]

Originally Posted by Keith Blakeman

Looks Yank to me, horrible.

As a Yank, I agree.

[CAM]

Originally Posted by Keith Blakeman

Looks Yank to me, horrible.

Sp x10

[mike_vee]

Originally Posted by leigh kitchen

The comment's already been made -inspired by the Selous Scouts?

Telegraph has an article :

Fury as new Army regiment’s cap badge ‘identical’ to apartheid terror squad

Officers say design for Ranger Regiment cap matches that of the Selous Scouts, which fought black insurgent armies in former Rhodesia

[grey_green_acorn]

So all that I suggested in this post is true! (Confirmed by The Times).

https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...38&postcount=3

Tim

[Alan O]

Bearing in mind the Army is smaller than ever I am dubious as to where they are going to draw the 'higher quality' Rangers from? Can you really fill the selection courses for Para, Cdo, SAS, SRR, etc and also fill these 4 battalions with trained soldiers?

[Luke H]

Quite easily the worst British cap badge I’ve ever seen.

[Borderer]

Originally Posted by Alan O

Bearing in mind the Army is smaller than ever I am dubious as to where they are going to draw the 'higher quality' Rangers from? Can you really fill the selection courses for Para, Cdo, SAS, SRR, etc and also fill these 4 battalions with trained soldiers?

This not a Special Forces Unit per-say, what they the MOD have done is: Disband after only 16 years of service, 1 SCOTS (Royal Scots Borderers) The Royal Regiment of Scotland and all their joint history and insignia.

There was once what was known as the 'Golden Thread' a link between The Royal Scots and The King's Own Scottish Borderers, who were amalgamated to form 1SCOTS (Royal Scots Borderers) a joint 373 years of service to the Crown with both having never in their joint history been amalgamated before, but now it is all gone, the cap badge may as well have been a Parrot rather than some modern Third Reich looking badge.

They were then reformed on 30 November 2021 as 1st Battalion The Ranger Regiment (ironically it was not lost on us Scots it was on St Andrews Day of all days), they are one of four in this Special Operations Brigade and expected to operate, with allies to counter extremists and hostile states.

PS: Please note it is 'The Ranger Battalion' and not Rangers this is a football team and they are not soldiers.

Hiram