Green Berets

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A green beret is a type of headgear. Green Berets can refer to:

Military

• A colloquial term for the United States Army Special Forces
• A colloquial term for the British Royal Marines commandos.
• A colloquial term for the French Légionnaires or Naval commandos.
• Green Berets, a military unit composing Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• A colloquial term for the Portuguese Paratrooper Forces.

Literature

• The Green Berets, a 1965 book by Robin Moore (2002 reissue ISBN 0-312-98492-8)
• Tales of the Green Beret a comic strip and American comic book
• The Green Beret, a poem by Vietnamese writer Ho Thien about the Vietnam war.
• The Green Beret The story of the Commandos 1940-1945, a book by Hilary St George Saunders, published in 1949

Music

• "Ballad of the Green Berets", 1966 hit written by Robin Moore and Sgt. Barry Sadler
• "53rd & 3rd", 1976 by The Ramones written by Dee Dee Ramone about a former green beret in Vietnam who became a male prostitute.

Film

• The Green Berets, a 1968 movie about the American Vietnam War and starring John Wayne

• Rambo Series- Sylvester Stallone acted as a Vietnam Returned Green Beret in the Rambo Series

Computer & Video Games

• Green Berets, a real-time tactics game based on Myth II.
• Green Beret, an alternate name for the 1985 video game Rush'n Attack by Konami.
• Commandos (series)-Video Game- One of the commando's, Butcher is also known as the green beret.

Other

• The specific green berets worn by the above-mentioned military personnel and personnel in similar units of other countries' forces.
• Green Berets in popular culture