[MR] that cool red italian hat

[JBRMM266 at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/21/2004 8:37:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
kjworz at comcast.net writes:

> As a prematurely retired Naval Officer, we in the Navy, both enlisted and 
> officers, called it the Dixie Cup.  I'm sure the proper name is told to 
> sailors at boot camp, but I never heard it.  

Officially, that's simply the "round hat."  There used to be a "flat hat," 
sometimes called the Donald Duck due to its similarity to that character's 
trademark headgear.  I don't think it the sailor's round hat is at all similar to 
the 'ducal hat,' whose crown, I'm pretty certain, is flat on top rather than 
domed like the round hat.

your servant aye,
Donal
(whose mundane self once wore the blue & gold)