trained and led by the Green Berets, mostly drawn from the Montagnard tribes, or the mountain people of South Vietnam’s Central Highlands. These guerilla units fell under Mobile Strike Command ...

Editor’s Note: This article is a part of the USA TODAY Network’s series Vietnam War ... A few months later, Lieutenant Longgrear was a Green Beret, commanding a strike force of indigenous ...

"It's meaningful. I lost friends over there. I made it back but not without being hit," said retired Vietnam Green Beret Mark Lloyd."They are considered elite. It is very difficult to get in ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — WKRG and parent company Nexstar will air a special report marking the end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. The special will ...

SAIGON -- The U.S. Command said today the former chief of the U.S. Special Forces (Green Berets) in Vietnam and seven of his subordinates have been arrested on a charge of planning and carrying ...

Green Beret, a Vietnam veteran and a resident of Valley Center, was on the recent Honor Flight from San Diego. Capt. Roberts completed 3 tours in Vietnam Nam. According to his wife, “This trip changed ...

HESSTON, Kan. (KSNW) — It is estimated one in eight soldiers who served in Vietnam were infantrymen. Even fewer were members of the Special Forces. Neil McChesney was one of them. “There’s ...

Will, an Allegheny County native, died July 5, 1966, at age 24, due to hostile action when serving in the Army’s Green Berets during the Vietnam War. His sacrifice was remembered Thursday when ...

Frederick Weyand, for purposes of morale in the post-Vietnam War era, allowed local commanders ... the first Special Forces soldiers began wearing green berets, again in an homage to their British ...

As a result of Davis’ leadership, four Green Beret teammates were safely rescued ... A mere 8% of Medal of Honor recipients from the Vietnam era are Black, according to the news outlet.

Mike Waltz and Seth Moulton, participated in a volunteer cleaning of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial ahead of Memorial Day. Waltz, a combat-decorated Green Beret, has led the effort in hand-washing ...

In August 2021, as the Taliban took over Afghanistan and the U.S. scrambled to evacuate its allies and citizens, former Green Beret Mann ... Sinise presented the Vietnam-era play “Tracers ...