The cover illustration depicts a Green Beret commando with a machine gun and the headline, "Special Ops: Can Our Commandos Finish the Job?" The magazine's answer is a limited yes, Mr. Whitaker said, pointing out that the troops cannot solve the problem of Afghanistan's future.
He went on to become a green beret commando, and saw action in Italy, France and Germany.
James G. Gritz, a former Green Beret commando who is known as Bo, established a community called Almost Heaven, where he said patriots could gather to live in self-sufficiency and await Armageddon.
On the other hand, a group of veterans from the unit of which these boats were a part, many of whom behaved bravely in action, have made serious charges against him.One test case is Mr Kerry's account of rescuing Jim Rassmann, a Green Beret commando, the action which earned him his Bronze Star.
Bo Gritz, the former Green Beret commando and a leader of the far-right militia movement, was acquitted yesterday of charges that he tried to kidnap a young boy from the parking lot of a middle school in Suffield, Conn., in September 1996.
The New York Times broke the story Thursday that a team of about a dozen Green Beret commandos have been deployed on Saudi Arabia's border with Yemen since December, helping the kingdom's forces find and destroy Houthi missile caches and launch sites, among other roles.
Unusually each man chose whether to would wear a steel helmet or the Commando green beret.
A statistically improbable number of airborne maroon and commando green berets were on display.
Across the street, three Hezbollah commandos in green fatigues crouched, Kalashnikovs propped on their knees, in a small garden where kids usually play ball.
