Creme Beret – The Green Berets
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Creme_Beret_(4,620)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Special_Forces
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Berets_(film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7dIG_h5wak
The Gummies, also known as Gummy units, were the worker drone units used by Nana’s Olde Fashioned Karamelle Delights to gather chocolate, marshmallow, gumdrops, and other ingredients from throughout Karamelle, which were then sent to Nana’s factories.
“The Gummies are meticulously designed worker drones. Invented to do the grunty labor work, and maybe the occasional song and dance.”
― Maulwurf von Trap
The Creme Berets were developed by the Jellymancer for Nana as an Elite Security Force. They are Elite warriors that kill with cuddles. And grenades.
The United States Army Special Forces (SF), colloquially known as the “Green Berets” due to their distinctive service headgear, is the special operations branch of the United States Army. Although technically an Army branch, the Special Forces operates similarly to a functional area (FA), in that individuals may not join its ranks until having served in another Army branch.
The core missionset of Special Forces contains five doctrinal missions: unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, direct action, counterterrorism, and special reconnaissance. The unit emphasizes language, cultural, and training skills in working with foreign troops; recruits are required to learn a foreign language as part of their training and must maintain knowledge of the political, economic, and cultural complexities of the regions in which they are deployed. Other Special Forces missions, known as secondary missions, include combat search and rescue (CSAR), counter-narcotics, hostage rescue, humanitarian assistance, humanitarian demining, peacekeeping, and manhunts. Other components of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) or other U.S. government activities may also specialize in these secondary missions. The Special Forces conduct these missions via five active duty groups, each with a geographic specialization; and two National Guard groups that share multiple geographic areas of responsibility. Many of their operational techniques are classified, but some nonfiction works and doctrinal manuals are available.
Special Forces have a longstanding and close relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency, tracing their lineage back to the Agency’s predecessors in the OSS and First Special Service Force. The Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) highly secretive Special Activities Center, and more specifically its Special Operations Group (SOG), recruits from U.S. Army Special Forces. Joint CIA–Army Special Forces operations go back to the unit MACV-SOG during the Vietnam War, and were seen as recently as the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021).
The Green Berets is a 1968 American war film directed by John Wayne and Ray Kellogg, and starring Wayne, David Janssen and Jim Hutton, based on the 1965 novel by Robin Moore. Much of the film was shot in the summer of 1967. Parts of the screenplay bear little relation to the novel, although the portion in which a woman seduces a North Vietnamese communist general and sets him up to be kidnapped by Americans is from the book.
The Green Berets is strongly anti-communist and pro-South Vietnam. It was released at the height of American involvement in the Vietnam War, the same year as the Tet Offensive against the largest cities in South Vietnam. John Wayne was so concerned by the anti-war sentiment in the United States, he wanted to make this film to present the pro-military position. He requested and obtained full military cooperation and materiel from 36th President Lyndon B. Johnson and the United States Department of Defense. John Wayne bought the film rights to Robin Moore’s book for $35,000 and 5% of undefined profits of the film.
The film was notable in its casting of George Takei, who was then a regular character on the series Star Trek. As a result of Takei joining the film’s cast, he missed filming nearly a third of the episodes of Star Trek season 2. His lines were subsequently rewritten for the character of Pavel Chekov, played by actor Walter Koenig. Koenig, who was originally cast as a rarely speaking background character, grew into one of the major Star Trek leads due to Takei’s absence, leading to Chekov becoming a regular character in both the original series and subsequent films.
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The Seven Green Berets image is borrowed from Wikipedia. It was taken by SFC Jeremy D. Crisp (U.S. Army) and is in the Public Domain
The Green Berets movie poster is borrowed from the IMP Awards
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