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hard hat noun an elite, full-time Viet Cong soldier US, 1965- Named from the metal helmets they wore, not worn by guerilla fighters. The advisors tended to group both together, calling them “hard hats” because they wore turtle-shaped sun helmets, an imitation of the colonial sun helmet that one saw in Lipingesque movies of British India on late-night television[.] — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, p. 66, 1988
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 102, 1991
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