· Posted February 22. It's a support troop's beret, assigned to 3rd SFGA, ie: supply, cook, mechanic, rigger etc, 3rd group was reactivated around 1990 at Ft Bragg. Saw this posted somewhere the other day as being used in Vietnam. Maroon berets were not authorized until 1973, years after 3rd SFGA had been to Vietnam, and after the unit had been ...