User talk:MikeTheFritz

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Green beret
I have reverted your edit to the article Green beret because this article is themed with a significance based on unit connections to the British Commandos of World War II.

The British Rifles wear rifle green berets as the British Brigade of Gurkhas (because of the strong regimental association of the Gurkhas to the Rifles stretching back to the defence of Hindu Rao's house (1857). Neither of these regiments are listed because their wearing of green berets like many other regiments around the world has nothing to do with regimental/unit histories that goes back to the British Commandos of WWII. When Royal Marine Commandos and members of The Rifles are fighting side by side in Afghanistan, the may both be wearing green berets but the regimental traditions why they do are totally different.

The French Commando's are listed because they wear green berets because their regimental history goes back the the commando's of World War II. The French Foreign Legion are not because their reason for wearing green berets (like the Gurkhas) has no connection to the Commandos of World War II.

Listing all military units in the world that wear green berets falls foul of Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, as it is just as indiscriminate to list units only because they wear green berets as it would be to list all the units in the world that wear black boots. -- PBS (talk) 13:52, 8 October 2013 (UTC)