Alpini frieze embroidered black on green cloth for Hat

The Alpini are the highly specialized mountain troops of the Italian Army, as they were for the Royal Army.

The term in its double meaning strictly indicates a specialty of the infantry weapon

(in particular fusiliers and mortars), and in a broad sense the entire Alpine Corps, which over the years

has gradually included all the analogous specialties of the Artillery Weapons, Engineers and Transmissions, Automotive Corps, Healthcare etc.,

equally intended to operate on mountain terrain