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| | Earned, Not Issued -- The Ranger Black Beret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | The Army Rangers have participated in all of the major campaigns beginning with the 2nd World War, storming the beaches at Normandy ("Saving Private Ryan") and the most recent was the fierce firefight in Mogadishu, Somalia where the Rangers refused to leave a downed Blackhawk helicopter crew trapped in the wreckage. |
 | | Rangers have sacrificed blood, sweat, tears and given the ultimate sacrifice, their own life in order to live up to the standard of wearing the Ranger Black Beret. |
 | | Elite units like the Rangers, Special Forces, AF Combat Controllers, Pararescue, etc. deserve to have something different to identify their specialties, it is their right for doing something the average man does not have the stomach for. |
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