Duckbill Cap, Navy

Duckbill Cap



The traditional pre astro Earth head cover first used in the Earth sport Baseball, was adopted by civilians, paramilitary and military forces alike as a semi official head cover and part of uniforms.

The fact that Admiral Stahl was and is often seen with one is of course part of its continued use.

The Union Navy allows ship board crews to wear this cover as part of the standard board duty uniform (Uniforms E and D ) and it is also permitted to wear the cap off duty.

Each ship issues its own cap.

While there are of course very authentic looking replicas available for civilians, the genuine caps are highly sought after collector items.

Genuine caps of the USS Devastator often fetch more than 5000 credits.

Of course very few real crew members ever part with their caps no matter the offer.

The smallest caps were made for fleet members of the Mini Terran species and the largest ones for the two Bandrupo Fleet officers.

The Duckbill cap along with the “Fighter Jacket ” is the most enduring piece of Uniform and has been issued for since the Union Navy was created.

Its wearing while on duty is still subject to permission of the ships captain.

Some captains even make their use mandatory.



[Note]

The official Navy cap is made by Broder and Stanwick of San Diego Earth (with manufacturing facilities now located at the Earth Torus.

<p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm">The now declassified (as of 5050) and now famous NAVINT version, is made of intellifab, has an integrated roll down mask and deploy-able face shield. It can display any kind of logo and message. Provides additional Psi shielding and the “dome button” is a detachable micro drone.

<p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm">Only two hundred were created and according to NAVINT sources never really used in any real mission

<p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm">A few of the NAVINT caps have been seen in auctions and sold for six digit figures