Headgear available to equip in the COMPETITIVE Section of the Appearance Screen, part of the Loadouts Screen. You start the game with one Headgear option. As you complete Echelon Contracts and earn Echelon Rep you can purchase additional Headgear. It isn’t required to purchase them in any order, or at all, so you are free to stick with starting gear and perhaps buy only the highest rank of gear once it becomes available. Despite the Echelon Elite Bundle following this set of Appearance Items naming convention you cannot use it in COMPETITIVE.