Campaign Hat

A campaign hat is a broad-brimmed felt or straw hat with a high crown and pinch at four points in the crown. This hat is great to keep the sun off your head. Most of the time, a campaign hat will also have a chin cord. This hat can also be known as a campaign cover, drill instructor or sergeant, lemon squeezer (because of the four pinched corners on the crown), Montana Peak, Mountie, ranger, Scouts or Smokey Bear hat.

This hat is most often associated with the New Zealand Army, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, World War I US Army ground forces, U.S. military drill instructors, state police, park rangers, Smokey the Bear, and Boy Scouts.