The Green Beret, now retired Lt. Col. Mark Johnson, 46, of Eudora, won that arm wrestling contest. He wrote the above sentences in an account of the incident in his new book, “Lessons in ...

Robin Moore, who wrote the book The Green Berets (which became a John Wayne movie in 1968), helped Sadler winnow the song down to a manageable length. The song took off, and Sadler became a ...

No film so perfectly encapsulates the generation gap in America in the '60s than John Wayne's corny Vietnam War epic, The Green Berets ... the 1965 best-selling novel of the same name to theaters ...

"The Ballad of the Green Berets" sold something over two million ... You hated the song; now hate the book. Don't misunderstand--there is nothing really hateful about Sadler.

Lt. Col. Scott Mann is a retired Green Beret in the US Army as well as the president of MannUp Leadership Training. He describes how the Green Berets and the US Navy SEALs are different.

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 ...