Green berets : as long as they have silver wings upon their chest. 
Have patience then. I’m sure it’ll come. Should be a few weeks after you retire.
How easy is it to have personal non-standard gear that’s been used by SF? Were electronic sights the first and went Delta Force - Rangers - rest of army?
ChefGuy,
I guess you were right and those movies you mention are just lazy/unprepared then.
I figured it was because the Stars don’t think it looks cool to have a heavy steel pot on their heads, and because, you know, heavy. You can tell whether or not the entire helmet is being used when you don’t see a chin strap (which is attached to the steel part) or if you see a pebbly texture (the liner), or if the cammo covering is all poofy and ruffled.
In which movies did you notice that? I’d like to have a look.
I can see it being heavy for older helmets but, at least in the Canadian military within the last decade, I didn’t find them that heavy at all. Uncomfortable, yes.
And yes, main characters have magical protection that minor characters don’t have against projectiles, hence the absence of need for anything that could obscure the face and styled hair.
A lot like this, where you would think they would realize the flaw in their otherwise heavily armored design: http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/6/64/Chaos_Lord_Eliaphas_the_Inheritor.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121107180902
This applies of course to our good pal the M1 steel bucket – it’s a helmet, it’s a shovel, it’s a cooking pot and a washbasin, it’s a stool and a hammer… and yes I do recall in cheaper movies and TV shows they’d spray paint the liner with metallic/OD color and pretend that was it, in order to lighten the load on the actor (also, sometimes honor guards in “dress” ocassions back in CONUS would be authorized to use the liner, painted to look good).
The post-1980s helmets, of which in the case of the USA there seems to be a new version every decade in both the Army and Marines, composite/thermoplastic shell and liner are integrated and more permanently attached (plus in the field you add mounting hardware for such things as nightvision).
Some informal testing by these guys shows the newer composite helmets to be surprisingly bullet-resistant. The old steel pot helmets wouldn’t even stand up to handgun bullets. I think their results were interesting, but skewed by them repeatedly shooting the same helmets. A “fresh” helmet might have done better at stopping the intermediate rifle rounds.
It’s a latrine… WHAT ?! I cleans it before I puts it back on !