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The Green Berets and the Montagnards: How an indigenous tribe won the admiration of Green Berets and lost everything.
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![Special Forces Capt. Vernon Gillespie Jr., working with troops from Vietnam's Montagnard ethnic group, calls his outpost by walkie-talkie radio in 1964. / Getty Images | HistoryNet Special Forces Capt. Vernon Gillespie Jr., working with troops from Vietnam's Montagnard ethnic group, calls his outpost by walkie-talkie radio in 1964. / Getty Images | HistoryNet](https://www.historynet.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Green-Beret-with-cigarette.jpg)
Special Forces Capt. Vernon Gillespie Jr., working with troops from Vietnam's Montagnard ethnic group, calls his outpost by walkie-talkie radio in 1964. / Getty Images | HistoryNet
JOHN WAYNE - John Wayne in The Green Berets. While visiting the troops in Vietnam, he was given a silver friendship bracelet presented by a Montagnard Strike Force unit. He wore the
![Capt. Michael S. Ravitch of Wellington, Ohio, and a member of the Green Beret Medical team, treats a young Montagnard brought to him for a check-up during a visit to a Montagnard Capt. Michael S. Ravitch of Wellington, Ohio, and a member of the Green Beret Medical team, treats a young Montagnard brought to him for a check-up during a visit to a Montagnard](https://l450v.alamy.com/450v/2n1925g/capt-michael-s-ravitch-of-wellington-ohio-and-a-member-of-the-green-beret-medical-team-treats-a-young-montagnard-brought-to-him-for-a-check-up-during-a-visit-to-a-montagnard-village-in-vietnam-near-pleiku-june-1968-ap-photo-2n1925g.jpg)