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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Special Forces troops ("Green Berets") under the command of Colonel Mike Kirby defend a firebase during the Vietnam war. War correspondent George Beckwith accompanies Kirby and objects to ...

The Army's chief of staff may soon decide on the ... despite media reports that the specialized unit will don berets similar to those worn by Special Forces. The controversy began when an image ...

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