Six Gun Devil - The Green Berets | Outlaw Rock/Metal | Dedicated to All the Soldiers

The Green Berets Step into a new Outlaw Rock | Metal version of “The Green Berets” — a completely new song inspired by “The Ballad of the Green Berets,” one of the most iconic military songs in American music history. This original song takes inspiration from the spirit and story of the classic, bringing it into a modern sound with an Outlaw Southern atmosphere, cinematic textures and a metal edge. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇺🇸 DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO SERVE Dedicated to all the soldiers who are fighting far from home, and to those who never came home. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📜 THE STORY BEHIND THE ORIGINAL SONG “The Ballad of the Green Berets” was written and recorded by U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler in 1966, with Robin Moore contributing to the lyrics. Sadler was a Special Forces medic who had served in Vietnam. The song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks, from March 5 through April 2, 1966, and was named Billboard's #1 song of 1966. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇺🇸 THE GREEN BERETS — BY THE NUMBERS ▸ 1952 — U.S. Army Special Forces founded at Fort Bragg ▸ October 12, 1961 — JFK authorizes the Green Beret as official headgear ▸ “De Oppresso Liber” — Latin motto meaning “To Free the Oppressed” ▸ ~7,000 active Special Forces soldiers today ▸ Nearly 3 years of training before a soldier earns the beret ▸ Only ~30% of candidates complete the Q-Course (Qualification Course) ▸ 80+ countries — Special Forces soldiers may be deployed around the world ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This song is a tribute to those who serve, those who fight far from home, and those who never came home. Inspired by the legacy of “The Ballad of the Green Berets.” #greenberets #darkcountry #outlawcountry #outlawrock #metal #southernmetal #southernrock #military #BalladOfTheGreenBerets #veteran #soldier #war #warzone #veterans #veteransupport #usmilitary #usspecialforces #specialforces