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UN blue beret being worn by Luís Carrilho, head of the United Nations Police Canadian peacekeeper in 1976 wearing the distinctive UN blue helmet. A blue beret is a blue-colored beret used by various (usually special) military and other organizations. United Nations peacekeepers are often referred to as Blue Berets or Blue Helmets because of ...
Accordingly, UN peacekeepers (often referred to as Blue Berets or Blue Helmets because of their light blue berets or helmets) can include soldiers, police officers, and civilian personnel. Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter gives the United Nations Security Council the power and responsibility to take collective action to maintain ...
The Army Special Forces were established in 1952, ten years before the Navy SEALs, and 25 years before Delta Force. Every other modern U.S. special operations unit in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines was established after 1977. In Veritas: Journal of Army Special Operations History, Charles H. Briscoe states that the Army "Special Forces ...
Bosnian Serb forces, in the process of retrieving their heavy weapons from UN-controlled collection points by force, took UN peacekeeping personnel hostage. Particularly dramatic and sensational episodes, such as the "Sarajevo's Romeo and Juliet", [ 36 ] inevitable in any conflict, but abundantly mediatised.
A maroon beret has been adopted as official headdress by the Airborne forces, a tan beret by the 75th Ranger Regiment, a brown beret by the Security Force Assistance Brigades, and a green beret by the Special Forces. In 2011, the Army replaced the black wool beret with the patrol cap as the default headgear for the Army Combat Uniform. [1] [2] [3]
A 41-year-old Green Beret who was on his fourth combat deployment has been killed by small arms fire in Afghanistan.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Thursday approved a resolution demanding that the Lebanese military and Hezbollah stop blocking the movement of the U.N. peacekeeping force and ...
The United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) is a United Nations Peacekeeping Force that was established under United Nations Security Council Resolution 186 in 1964 to prevent a recurrence of fighting following intercommunal violence between the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, to contribute to the maintenance and restoration of law and order and to facilitate a return to ...