Outside, the sunny weather steadily had darkened during the day, through the final roll call, the 21-gun salute, the playing of “Taps” and the “Ballad of the Green Berets,” the benediction. At last, ...

In a Regimental First Formation ceremony held on Jan. 23 at the Crown Complex, a total of 167 men donned their Green Berets for the first time. The event was hosted by Col. David M. Lucas, commander ...

Former Green Berets Luke Denman, 34, and Airan Berry, 41, admitted to participating in the May 4 operation, Mr Saab wrote on his Twitter account. “Said gentlemen ADMITTED to having committed the ...

She wrote that, as her ex-lover’s fame “grew ... a lover who “just kinda wasted my precious time”) and 1964’s Ballad in Plain D (on which he sang of her “parasite sister” for whom ...

During his visit to the Special Warfare Center on Oct. 12, 1961, Kennedy specifically remarked on the Green Berets. He later wrote to the center’s commander, Gen. William P. Yarborough ...

Written as a slow ballad that wavers tantalizingly between ... The song was written in 1937 for 17-year-old Mitzi Green to sing in Rodgers & Hart’s musical, Babes In Arms; although the stage ...

Green Beret Sgt. Tommy Lazzaro never should have died like this, in an apparent hunting accident outside Eglin: Now, his ...