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.

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 ...

Graduates sing the Ballad of the Green Beret during the Special Forces Regimental First Formation Graduation at the Crown Theater on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024.

But even before the first women qualified to become part of the revered Green Berets or 75th Ranger Regiment, thousands worked in noncombat roles dating as far back as the Revolutionary War.