A complete history of Army berets and who’s allowed to wear them
From the Army Times website
While it’s true that President John F. Kennedy authorized Special Forces soldiers to wear a rifle green beret in 1961, the soldiers had been wearing them off the books for the better part of the previous decade — and they weren’t the first to do that.
It turns out that all of the Army’s berets — from green to maroon to black, and the tan that replaced it — were first worn as an unauthorized morale booster.
The first instance of a colored beret in the U.S. Army was in 1943, Army Historical Foundation chief historian Matt Seelinger told Army Times.
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