Thus goes the opening verse to “ The Ballad of the Green Berets,” sung by the late U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler, a song which spent five weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1966 ...

Then there came Billy Waugh's favorite song, one that he played every day while at home. Throughout the auditorium, men quietly mouthed the words to "The Ballad of the Green Berets." ...

"The Ballad Of The Green Beret's" entered the country music charts Feb. 19, 1966 – made it to No. 2, where it stayed for two weeks and was on the charts for 14 weeks.

A Green Beret killed in a 2017 ambush by Islamic militants in Niger was awarded the Silver Star on Tuesday, the culmination of an about-face by the Army over the controversial incident in the ...

is not just a day off from work, former Green Beret Harold Wheeler emphasized during a ceremony Sunday in Boulder City. Wheeler, president of Las Vegas Chapter 51 of the Special Forces Association ...