My Sam Houston is a 12/12/2011 build i still have it today I left my department in 2013 for personal reasons but it was a little heavy but I loved it I had mine with goggles and bourks eye shields
I can understand the move to the printed eagle, saving cost and utilizing a piece already in production. But do you know why they started modifying the brim shape and raised the height of the tets? Just wondering if there was a logical reason, or if someone just liked the style of it.
Brim shape back then was a matter of who was reshaping brims at the time. After Cairns and Bro. was purchased, and many years down the road, brim shapes were actually studied and engineered so that in the event of a rearward fall, the downward curve of the brim would absorb more of the impact than a straighter brim.
