Speaking of Aussies
 

Whats the purpose of the hat brim being folded up on one side?

This may answer your question :up: http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/slouch/army.htm

Ah. Thank you. A mystery solved.

I can see the bit with the rifle drill (and with range practices) but just cannot wrap my head around the idea of folding up the brim to make the Eyes Right command any easier.

No problem :yep:

It's so they'll know which side is the right.:D

Just kidding but when entering the military I was shocked by how many people don't know their lefts from their rights.

LMAO....and I suppose they use them corks that hang from their hats to keep the flies away from them because of the smell they emit :lol:

Australian soldiers all look like this....right?:doh:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1397/...bc22a9b2_m.jpg

Well I marched out of basic training on saturday, we were told there that the reason for the turning up of the side was to make it easier for a CO to look his men in the eye as he inspected them, so that their eyes werent hidden under the brim.

For Eyes right it helps when marching past on parade, again because it makes it easier for the reviewing officer to look his men in the eye.

as a side note, by god i love the emu plumes of light cav!:D

Nope they all used to look like this:
http://www.lancers.org.au/images/lhf/snow.JPG

Then like this:

http://www.kokodatreks.com/images/Au...138790_000.jpg

They now look like this:
http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200704/r136387_462496.jpg

:rotfl::rotfl:

I used to not know which side is which! :)

perhaps I'm being a bit slow here but haven't all those guys got their hats turned up on the left hand side? Now the left hand side would be right for rifle drill IIRC ATC days but wouldn't help much with eyes right. (is there an eyes left command?

Only if your crosseyed http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/6...azyeyeszb8.gif

easy kurtz - when given eyes right, having the left hand side turned up means you can glance out of the corner of your eye to stay a straight line, and as you're approaching the reviewing officer you can see him and look him in the eye as you march up to him and past.

Australian's must have some really good eyesight if the reviewing officer can look at passing troops in the eyes.