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Message: [QUOTE="Bama fan, post: 2943830, member: 7757"] The Scottish Royal Highlanders have a regiment known as The Black Watch. Their history in battle is storied, and they have been awarded many military honors over the years. They fought in all of Britain's foreign campaigns dating. back to the early !700s. Their traditional dress uniforms are Black Tartan kilts. The Germans were so intimidated by them that they coined the term 'The Ladies From Hell" to describe them in their dress kilts. I believe at one point certain U S Army ranger units wore black berets as a sign of unique ID. Black has often marked "special" military units. Unfortunately, the SS wore black to distinguish themselves from regular army units in the 1930s and 40s. Maybe distinguish is a poor choice of words there. Anyway, black was always [B]scary.[/B] [/QUOTE]