SSgt Barry Sadler, Ballad of the green beret

It's too bad there has to be a song like this to serve as a reminder of days and years gone by, but it seems to be out of control...more than ever before when it comes to the future. Why can't we all live in peace...but it seems as a long as there are those that despise the western world & modern culture, we're gonna have our problems/troubles...big trouble that we are needed abroad to keep it from blowing up in our faces, I hate it! I don't approve of the troubleshooters in the middle east.

you have them switched

They should have been more focused on blowing their brains and guts out.

great song, i remember hearing this as a kid.

green berets were originally created as a COIN (COunter INsurgency) unit during the beginning of the vietnam war to use an "ink blot" strategy of winning the "heats and minds of the Vietnamese,"

They are both The Best in the world at what they do in my opinion and they have the best training but they are trained to do different things. SEALS are trained to do more of the killing while the Green Beret's are trained to start uprisings and stay in an area for months at a time with little connection to the outside world

Send me to the shit and I will kill all those bearded pukes.

Navy SEALS don't train the locals how to fight a war like the Green Berets, Green Beret have a lot more jobs to do than the Navy SEALS.

Homus

cynnimin
Interesting post.
You will find that the seals did a lot during Vietnam (if you can be bothered to look).
You say the seals came with 'us' to free hostages......Were you there too? (rather than reading about it, or looking online

Its a bit odd if you were, as I think you may see the operation and its failure differently,and should understand the way the pilots were drawn from all services, and had to fly versions of the ch53 they wern't used to (ordered by delta)