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** This was especially visible during the 1972 Summit Series. The Canadian National team were bareheaded throughout (except for, oddly enough, eventual series hero Paul Henderson), while the Red Army team wore helmets.
* The Chinese People's Liberation Army Marine Corps. While half of them wear the standard black helmet with goggles on the helmet, the other half wear wool/fleece tuques with goggles on their tuque caps. Justified for the tuques keep their head warm at sea and the fact that they are mainly a peace keeping force escorting vessels near the Gulf of Aiden [https://web.archive.org/web/20130706210720/http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l597/Cifyra/PLA/PLAN/U135P200T1D207292F16DT20081225172132.jpg (picture of them here).] Why they never wear their goggles on their eyes is still a mystery. Even when they require eye protection, they would wear a separate pair of ballistic sunglasses instead of their tinted goggles if they have them.
* The "Secrete" (pronounced "Secret") helmet attempted to solve this by allowing a helmet to be worn ''under'' a nice hat.
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