Word: greens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Green Berets have already been overly romanticized in song and book, including Robin Moore's novel, on which the movie is based. "That's a lot of crap," says Lieut. Colonel Robert W. Hassinger, deputy commander of the Special Forces in Viet Nam. "There's not much glamour in our outfit -just a lot of hard work." Well, not quite. There are only 2,600 Green Berets in Viet Nam, but they exercise control over a force of 50,000 Vietnamese irregulars in 80-odd bases, mostly tiny outposts along the Laotian and Cambodian borders. They...
...Green Berets, named, of course, for their distinctive headgear (the color is traced to the forest-green caps worn by Rogers' Rangers in the French and Indian war), are probably the best-trained and most professional U.S. soldiers in Viet...
Many, perhaps even a third, are there on their second tour; some noncoms have been in the country for six years and plan to stay until the war is over. Says Colonel Harold Aaron, commanding officer of all Green Berets in Viet Nam: "Special Forces provides a man with a microcosm he can control...
...Green Berets still do their fighting mostly on the fringe of the big battlefields: quick, sharp clashes in the jungle along infiltration routes used by the Communists. Occasionally, one of their isolated redoubts is overrun (A Shau two years ago, Lang Vei this year) by an all-out attack. More oftenone is hit by rapid mortar and small-arms harassment probes, which are usually repulsed by the garrison. The camps are generally supplied by air, which provides the only link with the outside world...
Booty Money. Despite occasional psychological strains from isolation in the bush, the Green Berets still handle some of the toughest chores of the war. Special Forces "C and C" teams venture on missions "over the mountain"-reconnaissance forays into Laos and Cambodia that are classified and not talked about. "Mike-forces," elite irregulars under Special Forces officers, are sometimes thrown into hazardous actions where regular Vietnamese...