But on February 5, 1966, Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler’s hawkish patriotic single, The Ballad Of The Green Berets/ Letter From Vietnam, entered the US chart, and Uncle Sam had a new military hero.

Robin Moore wrote it purporting to show what a big job the heroic Green Berets were doing in Vietnam. At the time of his writing the government was falsely insisting we had only 12,000 technical ...

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 ...