Red beret

The red beret is a military beret worn by many artillery, military police, paramilitary, commando, and police forces and should not be confused with the maroon beret worn by airborne troops all around the world.

Red berets are worn by the artillery units of Germany, Hungary, Switzerland and Ukraine.

The following military units wear red berets: The following military units formerly wore red berets: The red beret was worn as a distinguishing device by Carlist Guías de Navarra (Navarre Guides) soldiers in the First Carlist War, encouraged by their commander Tomás de Zumalacárregui.

Regular Carlists wore a black beret.

The red beret was also worn by the Chapelgorris (Spanish:Red caps) who fought against the Carlists in the First Carlist War.

A member of the British Royal Military Police wearing a red beret near the Berlin Wall in 1984.
Malaysian Maritime STAR commandos with scarlet red coloured beret.
U.S. Air Force Combat Controller red beret