Barely more than two years after Green Beret Robert Howard’s heroic ... served 5 deployments in Vietnam. (U.S. Army photo) As Howard, then a sergeant first class, scrambled to inform his ...

The Vietnam War was raging when “The Ballad Of The Green Berets” came out ... then enlisting in the Army after his discharge. Sadler trained as a combat medic, and in 1965, he was injured ...

Within the tight-knit communities of Green Berets and CIA covert warriors ... combat jump into enemy territory in Vietnam; who foiled Soviet attempts to steal sensitive missile technology ...

No film so perfectly encapsulates the generation gap in America in the '60s than John Wayne's corny Vietnam War epic, The Green Berets ... mechanisms to clean the army’s reputation and was ...