How to Use Green Beret in a Sentence

Green Beret

noun
  • Hueske is a Green Beret who has served in the Special Forces for the last 17 years.
    Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Daysia Holiday, 23, said her goal is to become a Green Beret.
    Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Kent, a former Green Beret whose wife was killed by a suicide bomber in 2019 in Syria, was endorsed by Trump.
    Michelle L. Price, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022
  • His father was a Vietnam veteran and Green Beret, and his mother worked as a full-time nurse.
    Ellie Willard, AZCentral.com, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The Army Green Beret had undergone chest scans earlier that year for dive school and was told the results were normal.
    Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Since the end of the war, Mann said he’s lost three friends to suicide, including one fellow Green Beret and two combat-infantrymen.
    Melissa Chan, NBC News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • One of those former service members is Herb Daniels, who spent 14 years as a Green Beret and nearly four years in active combat.
    Lisa Ling, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • MacDonald, both a medical doctor and Green Beret, had a lung-puncturing stab wound in the chest.
    Josh Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The location was picked by Pete Chambers, one of the people organizing the convoy, who claims to be a former Green Beret.
    David Gilbert, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The 52-year-old former Green Beret had traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety, and had survived the loss of many fellow soldiers over the years, including some to suicide.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Named after a Green Beret whose military hospital failed to recognize his lung cancer, the law allows troops to file claims within the Defense Department that allege medical malpractice by military health-care providers.
    Ian Shapira, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Murphy eventually became a Green Beret while Parke was a paramilitary contractor.
    Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 11 Nov. 2023

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