Word: berets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Instead (the reader is cold and sure as the adrenaline shoots: oh, man, it will come ...) he walks back into town. A second time: the Cop, the Kid, back to the edge of town. And walks back in. (The reader: right, right, now let him be a discharged Green Beret...
...third time: Rambo in jail. Won't tell his name (but wait till they find out ...). Won't let his hair be cut. Teasle starts to cut it anyway; good cop, Korea veteran, a big medal. Rambo, sure enough, an ex-Green Beret (and, my God, a Medal of Honor winner), tries to hold himself in, won't let them force him to start killing again (Come back, Shane!) because this time it won't stop...
Like many a Texas barroom brawl, the fight between a Viet Nam veteran and a friend in the Panhandle town of Phillips was ostensibly over a girl. But by the time it ended, the friend lay dead of seven gunshot wounds. The veteran, a former Green Beret, dazed and thinking he had just killed an attacking Viet Cong, was stripping the body so that it could not be rigged with booby traps...
...scene here," says Lipton, "but he failed. There was agony, soul-searching, fights with Fay. He may have been the closest thing Cornell had to a hippie, but you know what that means -sometimes he didn't tie his tie." Lipton adds disdainfully: "He never bought a beret...
...Army's symbol of the Perfect Fighting Man. A picture of Herbert -face smudged with camouflage greasepaint, rifle gripped menacingly-illustrated a manual for elite Ranger trainees. His way through the Army was the fighter's way-training in mountaineering, as a parachutist, a Green Beret. With the rows of ribbons, the close-cropped haircut, the polished gleam of his uniform's brass, he was a five percenter, the top rank of officers promoted more quickly than their colleagues...