This wartime Vietnamese Pith Helmet features the VC badge. Used by the North Vietnamese and National Liberation Front forces during the Vietnamese War, this basic helmet design remains in service today. Made of a synthetic material with a cotton cloth layer bonded to the helmet the liner is rubberized cloth. This wartime examples features a leather chin strap and has a steep dome and rim.

This late wartime example has a more gradual slope to the helmet bowl and rim. It features the traditional badge of the PAVN (People's Army of Vietnam), also known as the NVA.

This post-war sun helmet is that used by the Vietnamese Army of the Socialist Republic since 1983. It is a modernized version of the wartime helmet. It features a plastic liner and chinstrap. This helmet features the Vietnamese Cong An (Military Police) helmet badge.