New Scots Regiment may be wearing cheap foreign tartan

[An t-Ileach]

...The first thing it did was upset the Rangers, so they switched to a new color for them (tan). The beret is a pain to shape so that it looks right, and I see soldiers every day who still haven't got it right...

Well they shouldn't be too disappointed, the tan beret is what the Special Air Service Regiment wears. Mind you, I can imagine the annoyance and upset: it's a bit like finding that the (Light Division's) Rifle Green beret had been adopted by the US Special Forces. As for beret shaping, that's an arcane art in itself best taught by a British Army drill pig.

And MOD's a penny pinching bunch of !!!s (except when it comes to paying civilian civil servants' final salary pensions): cost cutting was one of the reasons given for killing off the regiments in the first place, so now they can't even do the decent thing by the hybrid that they created - typical.