during the Vietnam War, but the course of his military career changed forever after he switched to the Special Forces, earning his Ranger tab and eventually becoming a Green Beret. The new role ...

N o film so perfectly encapsulates the generation gap in America in the '60s than John Wayne's corny Vietnam War epic, The Green Berets. The genre has reached such a level of ubiq ...

Allison also looks at the portrayal of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, or ARVN, in "Mùi Cỏ Cháy" ("The Scent of Burning Grass") (2012) and "The Green Berets" (1968), starring John Wayne.