ere using insurgent tactics, which meant that the were going into villages and hiding out in the jungle, then attacking the United States troops and the villagers in the South. The Green Berets were trained in counterinsurgency and guerilla warfare, they would use this training against the North Vietnamese in an attempt to help the villagers in the South and kill off the soldiers from the North. The Green Berets specialized in these tactics and were sent into Vietnam to train South Vietnamese troops against the communists.
             Kennedy wanted the missions that the Green Berets were sent on to be covert. He felt that the less people knew the better the chances of success. The Green Berets were responsible for training the South Vietnamese soldiers in the art of Counterinsurgency. They also were trying to turn the civilians into an anti-communist threat. They were successful in the fact that they gained the allegiance of the South Vietnamese almost everywhere they went. They trained the troops as well as they possibly could, but the troops in South Vietnam were inadequately supplied. Some of the training missions went well, but most of the others didn't work. The Green Berets were in Vietnam for fourteen years. They left on March 5, 1971, when they left they turned their camps over to the people of South Vietnam and returned home to Fo
             ...