Aaron Bank (November 23, 1902-April 1, 2004) was the founder of the US Army Special Forces, commonly called Green Berets.

Michael Yon is an American author and blogger. He was embedded with the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment (Deuce Four) of the 25th Infantry Division in Mosul, Iraq until the end of its deployment in September 2005. Yon's dispatches were excerpted by several American newspapers, including the "Northwest Guardian", the "Boston Herald", "The Seattle Times", The "Star Tribune", and "The Weekly Standard".

James "Bo" Gritz (born January 18, 1939 in Enid, Oklahoma) was a highly decorated United States Army Special Forces officer during the Vietnam War whose post-war activities-notably attempted POW rescues-have proven controversial. He remained a Special Forces officer until he resigned his commission in 1979.

Barry Sadler (November 1, 1940 - September 8, 1989) was an American author and musician. Sadler served as a Green Beret medic and Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. Most of his works have military themes, and he billed himself under his military rank of Staff Sergeant as "SSgt Barry Sadler".

Ali Abdul Saoud Mohamed, also known as Ali Mohammed (b. 1952) is an acknowledged Al Qaeda operative who was charged with the August 7, 1998 bombings of the United States' embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In October 2000, he pleaded guilty to five counts of conspiracy to kill nationals of the United States and officers or employees of the U.S. government on account of their official duties, to murder and kidnap, …

Gary C. Schroen is a former Central Intelligence Agency field officer who was in charge of the initial CIA incursion into Afghanistan in September 2001 to topple the Taliban regime and destroy Al Qaeda. After earning a Bachelor in Arts degree in history from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. Schroen was selected in the Central Intellegence Agency. His experience in the U.S. Marine Corps and high grades in college, made him a perfect candidate for the CIA.

Roger Hugh C. Donlon (born on January 30, 1934 in Saugerties, New York) is a retired United States Army officer who was the first man to receive the Medal Of Honor in Vietnam, as well as the first member of the Special Forces so honored. Donlon is the seventh child of eight. He attended the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University for a year. He joined the United States Air Force in 1953 and was admitted to West Point in 1955, …

SGM William "Billy" Waugh (US Army-Ret.) (born December, 1929), is a highly decorated American Special Forces soldier and Central Intelligence Agency covert operative who served in the United States military and intelligence fields for more than fifty years.

Gary Zukav is a best-selling author and a former Green Beret during the war in Vietnam. Zukav has dealt with anger problems for much of his life, and began writing and teaching after discovering spirituality. His work includes instruction on creating "authentic power" and becoming emotionally aware. Zukav is a recurring guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show, having made regular appearances during the mid-to-late 1990s and returning in 2007.

James Rassmann (born ~1948), a resident of the U.S. state of Oregon, served as a United States Army Special Forces First Lieutenant and Executive Officer of a 12-man Green Beret unit (designated A404), in the Vietnam War. He was rescued from the Bay Hap River on March 13, 1969 by future Presidential candidate John Kerry. Rassman recommended Kerry for a Silver Star medal, but the two did not maintain a relationship for the following 30 years.

Master Sergeant Samuel Kanyon Doe (May 6, 1951 - September 9, 1990) was the President of Liberia from 1980 to 1990. His regime was characterized by ethnically-based dictatorship and the suppression of political opposition. Trained by U.S. Army Special Forces, Doe was an ethnic Krahn, part of a rural tribe in inland Liberia. The Krahn were part of the large majority of the Liberian population that was of native African descent, …

Eugene Ashley, Jr. was a United States Army Special Forces soldier and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. Ashley joined the Army from New York City and served in the Korean War. By February 6 1968, he was serving as a Sergeant First Class in Company C of the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces in Vietnam.

Professor Kalev I. "Gunner" Sepp is an assistant professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, teaching in the Special Operations Program. He received his doctorate in American Diplomatic History from Harvard University in 2002, and earned his Combat Infantryman Badge as a brigade adviser in the Salvadoran Civil War and as a Special Forces A-Team leader in Panama.

Vice Admiral Richard Henry Carmona, M.D., RN, M.P.H, F.A.C.S. (born November 22, 1949) was the 17th Surgeon General of the United States, head of the United States Public Health Service. Appointed in 2002, he left his office at the end of July 2006 upon the expiration of his term. In August 2006, Carmona returned home to Tucson, Arizona as a celebrated member of the community. According to KVOA Television, he may be considering public office.

Roy Perez Benavidez (August 5, 1935 - November 29, 1998) from DeWitt County, Cuero, Texas, was a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions near Loc Ninh, Vietnam on May 2, 1968. He was originally given the Distinguished Service Cross, but upon hearing that he had survived the war, his former commander started the process to have the medal upgraded.

Robert W. Levy, Sr., is a Democratic politician and the mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey. Campaigning in the mayoral election of 2005, Levy repeatedly represented himself as a decorated member of the US Army Special Forces (“Green Berets”). On 10 November 2006, after being challenged by the POW Network, Levy admitted that he had never served in the Special Forces.

Major General Sidney Shachnow retired from the United States Army in 1994, after 40 years of active service. He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania. During World War II, at the age of six, he was imprisoned in the Kovno concentration camp because he was Jewish. In 1950, he immigrated to the United States. He enlisted in the U.S. Army and later entered Officer Candidate School as a Sergeant First Class. In 1960, Gen. Shachnow was commissioned in the Infantry.

Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema (born 1956 in Poughkeepsie, New York) is an American citizen convicted in September 2004 for running a private prison in Afghanistan and conducting torture upon Afghan citizens. At the time of his arrest and conviction, Idema had been portraying himself to American and international media, members of the military and Afghani nationals as a U.S. government-sponsored special forces operative on a mission to apprehend terrorists.

Walter Patrick "Pat" Lang, Jr., is the president of Global Resources Group, a consulting firm. He is a retired U.S. Army Colonel who served in the Special Forces (the Green Berets) during the Vietnam War. After leaving uniformed military service, he went on to hold high-level posts in civilian military intelligence, heading up intelligence analysis of the Middle East for the Defense Department in a high level capacity equivalent to the rank of a lieutenant general.

Earl Dennison Woods was an athlete, a US Army infantry officer, (retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel), and the father of golfer Tiger Woods. Woods was born in Manhattan, Kansas, where he was raised, to Maude Carter and Miles Woods. He was the youngest and the only male of four siblings. His father was a scorekeeper for baseball games and coached Earl in the sport until his death in 1943. His mother died soon after in 1947.

Major General John D. Altenburg Jr. (U.S. Army ret.) (b. June 10, 1944) is a former Green Beret, who worked as a camp counselor and high school English teacher before becoming a lawyer for the U.S. Army. In December 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld named Altenburg as the appointing authority for military commissions covering detainees at Guantanamo. He resigned, effective November 10, 2006

Warren Joseph Rogers, Jr. (May 61922 - August 312003) was a political reporter and an author. Born in New Orleans, Rogers took a liking to the press at an early age, working as a night messenger boy for the Postal Telegraph Co. and later as a copy boy for the "New Orleans Item". During World War II, Rogers served as a U.S. Marine and took part in the first offensive at Guadalcanal. He also served at Tulagi.

Floyd James "Jim" Thompson (July 8, 1933 (Bergenfield, New Jersey) - July 16, 2002 (Key West, Florida)) was the longest held POW in United States history, spending nearly nine years in captivity in Vietnam. =Early life= =Military Career= Thompson worked in a grocery store before he was drafted by the United States Army on June 14, 1956. After basic training at Fort Dix, New Jersey, Thompson decided to make the military his career.

Geoff Metcalf was a nationally syndicated radio talk show host based in Washington, D.C. He is Editor of CalNews.com. Metcalf is a ninth generation commissioned officer in the U.S Armed Services and a former Green Beret. He is a retired USAR LTC and has commanded a Special Forces Operational Detachment, and a Military Police Company in addition to various staff positions.

William Maud Bryant was a United States Army Special Forces soldier and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. Bryant joined the Army from Detroit, Michigan, and by March 24 1969 was serving as a Sergeant First Class in Company A of the 5th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces. On that day, in Long Khanh province, Republic of Vietnam, …

Pacha Khan Zadran is a powerful militia leader, politician and Pashtun nationalist in the southeast of Afghanistan. He was the ex Soviet-fighter militia leader that drove the Taliban from Paktia Province in the 2001 invasion, with American backing, and he subsequently assumed the governorship of the province. In 2002, he engaged in a violent conflict with rival tribal leaders in the province over the Governorship of the province, …

John Thomas Walton (October 8 1946 - June 27, 2005) was a son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. He was the chairman of True North Partners, a venture capital firm. Walton was a graduate of Bentonville High School, a public high school, where he was a star football player. Walton went on to continue his studies at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. He later dropped out in order to enlist in the U.S. Army and fight in the Vietnam War.

Pedro Rosa Nales is a journalist and a recognized martial artist. Born in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, he started working at radio station WMDD at Fajardo when he was just 13. As a journalist he has received over 200 awards.

Richard McCoy, Jr. was a convicted hijacker. On April 7, 1972, four months after D. B. Cooper's hijacking, McCoy boarded United Flight 855 during a stopover in Denver. It was a Boeing 727 with aft stairs, the same type used in the Cooper incident, which McCoy used to escape after giving the crew the same type of instructions as Dan Cooper. McCoy was carrying a novelty grenade and an empty pistol. He left his fingerprints on a magazine he read on the plane.

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