rehat

v. to outfit military personnel in different uniforms in order to show a change of allegiance or authority. Subjects: English, Military, Politics

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Citations: 1995 Agence France-Presse (Dec. 19) “US troop deployment lags in Bosnia”: “The French and British had two advantages we did not have. They had substantial numbers of troops on the ground already. They would just rehat their people.” He said referring to the switch from UN blue helmets to NATO equipment. 2000 Nancy Soderberg (Africa News) (Feb. 7) “ Soderberg Remarks to UNSC on Sierra Leone Peacekeeping Force”: The United States supports the Secretary-General’s recommendation to expand the mandate of UNAMSIL to take on the function of the departing ECOMOG forces and we will vote for the resolution before us today. To ensure there is no gap in security, we support the “rehatting” of two battalions of Nigerian ECOMOG troops remaining in Sierra Leone. 2004 Samantha Power @ Sudan New Yorker (Aug. 23) “Dying in Darfur”: One policeman, riding a camel, was wearing the navy-blue trousers of the Sudanese police and the green camouflage top of the Sudanese Army. Others were loitering in the Kas market wearing crisp blue police uniforms, but their turbans, the rifles slung over their shoulders, and their flip-flops gave them away as former janjaweed. In the local parlance, they had been “re-hatted.”

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