Word: berets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trained), but most are not close to such a flip-flop. For most young Indian men, the Army offers the only opportunity for dignity and a relatively decent life. Three meals a day, movie lectures at Ft. Gulick, the big PX in the Sky, fascinating, macho, Green Beret instructors, and most importantly, a gun, which any man, even a North American, will respect...
...found his merit rewarded. An honors student at Princeton, he married his high school sweetheart, went on to Northwestern University Medical School and an internship at New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. When MacDonald joined the Army as a doctor, he went after and earned a Green Beret...
...Mother" or "Death Before Dishonor" tattoos, but Tuttle's place is considered neutral ground when it comes to sociological or political disputes. He still marvels at the congeniality of two recent customers who chatted and chuckled together through simultaneous tattoo sessions. One, a black man in a beret, was having a panther tattooed on his back. The other walked out with a red and blue Confederate flag unfurled on his white shoulder...
...operations of the long war, a fleet of U.S. helicopters was skimming into North Viet Nam at treetop level, slipping through the narrow "windows" or gaps in Hanoi's radar system frantically preoccupied with the fighter-bombers high in the Vietnamese sky. Aboard the choppers were about 40 Green Beret and Ranger troops led by Army Colonel Arthur ("The Bull") Simons, 52, a near-legendary veteran of World War II, Laos and Viet Nam. He is considered by many to be quite simply the finest derring-do combat commander in the U.S. Army. Like the 20 or so Air Force...
...likely target for search and rescue. Nixon was enthusiastic. On Aug. 11 he gave a go-ahead for planning the operation without actually authorizing the mission. The Pentagon assigned Brigadier General LeRoy Manor, head of air commandos at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and Colonel Simons, an ex-Green Beret then stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., to lead what became known as Joint Contingency Task Group Ivory Coast...