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--- Bill Richer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Rangers Declare Win in Beret Battle
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -
The Rangers raised a ruckus when Army chief of staff
Gen. Eric Shinseki announced in October that the
black beret the Rangers wear proudly as an
exclusive badge of honor would become standard-issue
headgear for everyone from Army cooks and clerks to
colonels and generals.
The Rangers considered it a slap in the face, a
cheapening of their hard-won right to wear an
exclusive hat.
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Nakano comments:
The decision to take away the exclusivity of
the black beret comes from the same mentality
as "outcome based education".
This holds that no one can excel or achieve any
special place or recognition for outstanding effort
and accomplishment. Indeed the very term
"outstanding"
is contrary to the concept of universal mediocrity.
The decision to make the black beret a standard
part of the uniform for all armed forces personnel
was a "slap in the face" to our elite military
units. It was designed to further demoralize
the most highly-trained and combat-ready units.
This is simply another part of an on-going strategy
to reduce the effectiveness of the U.S. Military.
Putting women into combat units was another part
of the same scheme. Spreading U.S. Military
personnel out via assignments in more than 100
foreign countries is also part of it.
The Army Rangers have not won a "victory" by getting
the brass to agree to a tan beret, but at least
it's not a pink beret.
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