After an uproar from the Special Forces community, the brown beret was selected instead. The SFAB’s mission is to train and advise their host nation’s conventional military units. According to ...

U.S. Special Forces can relax now that the Army has officially unveiled a beret for combat advisors ... also redesigned as an homage Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. The roughly 800 soldiers ...

Dave Roever tells the story hundreds of times a year. It was Vietnam, 1969. Roever, a Brown Water Black Beret in the U.S. Navy, was standing on the edge of a boat, preparing to lob a white ...