A rounded combat helmet, the emoji represents soldiers and military life, used for war history, veterans, and armed-forces content. It also shows up in gaming contexts, wherever a first-person shooter or battle scene needs the visual shorthand.
What 🪖 means
A round, green helmet with a black strap on the lower end. On some platforms, this emoji is shown with a camouflage print. The 🪖 Military Helmet emoji signifies safety, the army (as the name suggests), protection, and a sense of identity to one's military profession.
How and when to use it
- Use 🪖 in the caption while posting or reposting anything related to the military - it can be a news post, a video about the annual military games, an appreciation post, an announcement, etc.
- You could also use 🪖 in the context of military language. Like, "Oh, no. INCOMING!!!! 🪖".
- While sharing pictures of military fashion, camouflage clothing, and khaki shades too you can use 🪖 in the caption. You can do this even while reposting these pictures or sending the same via direct message.
- If you're referring to someone as a 'soldier' or an 'old soldier', you can use 🪖. For example, "Come to the old soldier for some wisdom, will ya? 🪖".
- Even gaming posts or reposts could use 🪖 - if you're sharing a live stream of your game, a gaming-related repost, etc. Make sure that the game is related to fighting, the army, and the military.
Other Names
- 🪖 PASGT Helmet
- 🪖 Soldier Helmet
- 🪖 Armo(u)r
- 🪖 Crash Helmet
- 🪖 Camouflage Helmet
- 🪖 Green Helmet
- 🪖 Army Helmet
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › clothing
- Codepoints
U+1FA96- Emoji version
- Emoji 13.0
- Shortcodes
:military_helmet:- Keywords
- army, helmet, military, soldier, war, warrior
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🪖 Military Helmet or 🐛 Bug?