As a result the merger may not happen at all. Apparently some competitors fear the combined company will be able to offer better-priced products or bundles of products. At least American trustbusters pretend they are concerned about the well-being of the consumer. One expects mindless bureaucracies to grind everything and everyone down to a diluted, meaningless lowest common denominator, but for military Pooh-Bahs, who should know better,to behave similarly is deeply disappointing. Headgear may not mean much to usually hatless civilians, but it is powerfully symbolic to elite forces, who perform the services' most difficult missions.
Rangers go through hard training to become what they are.
The black beret proudly separates them from everyone else. It says they are extraordinary, not ordinary. But in a decision worthy of Barney the Dinosaur on a bad day, Pentagon generals apparently concluded that such distinctive headgear might hurt the feelings and self-esteem of everyone else. After the predictable brouhaha the black beret decision caused, the Army compromised and decreed that the Rangers could now wear tan berets which, one supposes, is a tad better than pink. Clearly these deskbound brass arses don't get it.