How to Use Green Beret in a Sentence

Green Beret

noun
  • My dad was a Green Beret and he got shot in Vietnam.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Absolute standards to be a Green Beret.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Ted told her about his time serving as a Special Forces Green Beret.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 17 May 2026
  • 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
  • Even strength coach Rusty Whitt, a former Green Beret, received an earful.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Allen hired an ex-Green Beret as a military tech adviser, and Rodriguez trained for weeks.
    — Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Roughly 10 women also have passed Green Beret training.
    — Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Collins, a former Green Beret, hasn’t ruled out running for governor in 2026.
    — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Channel your inner Green Beret or Navy Seal – the only easy day was yesterday!
    — Jay Sullivan, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Before launching a political career, Collins was a Green Beret and medic.
    — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
  • 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 former Green Beret has gone into an advisory role after being a congressman who's used to being a star.
    — Marc Caputo, Axios, 29 Mar. 2025
  • His career aspirations are to be an Army officer, a Green Beret and later work in politics.
    — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2025
  • Edwards is seeking a third term in Congress and faced Adam Smith, a former Green Beret, in the primary race.
    — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 3 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • It’s overseen by Derrick Anderson, a former Army Green Beret team leader.
    — Josh Meyer, USA Today, 4 June 2026
  • 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
  • Before entering the political realm, Collins was a Green Beret who deployed four times to two different continents.
    — Shauna Muckle, Miami Herald, 12 Jan. 2026
  • That's also a theme he and co-writer Jeff Kirkham, a former Green Beret with multiple tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, explore in their books.
    — Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Tommy’s girlfriend’s brother, an active-duty Green Beret himself, had been hunting with two friends that day in the expansive public land around Eglin — but their truck got stuck.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025
  • No strength coach in America can match the war stories of Whitt, the only Green Beret to hold his position in Division I football.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2026
  • More recently, he has been questioned for being a guest on a podcast hosted by Nate Cornacchia, a retired Green Beret who has been accused of antisemitism.
    — Arkansas Online, 6 Apr. 2026
  • More recently, he has been questioned for being a guest on a podcast hosted by Nate Cornacchia, a retired Green Beret who has been accused of antisemitism.
    — ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • While on a mission in Belarus, an unknown voice patches into his comms and tells the Green Beret there's room in the helicopter to rescue one civilian, and to prioritize an American.
    — Patrick Gomez, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Kent, a former Green Beret and political candidate with connections to right-wing extremists, was confirmed in July on a 52-44 vote.
    — Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The 1982 original saw Stallone play a veteran Green Beret who is forced by a cruel sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 15 May 2025
  • Sumrall retooled the roster with 50 new players — who joined 64 returners — and brought strength coach and former Green Beret Rusty Whitt with him from Tulane to change the culture.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026

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