Green Beret and Friendly FAC (Chuck Rosenberg, Tom, Robin) A recording of this song was made in Nha Trang on March 9, 1966 by members of the 1st Air Commando Squadron. According to Lt. Col. "Bucky" Burruss, USA Special Forces (Ret.), who remembers singing it in the Mike Force bar at Nha Trang in 1968, it was written by Capt. John Myer, 21st Tactical Air Support Squadron. Burress included a text of this song in his book Mike Force. This dialogue between the Army Special Forces trooper on the ground and the Air Force FAC and fighter pilots in the air is closely related to a group of songs about an air traffic controller and a pilot which was sung in Korea as "Itazuke Tower" and in Vietnam as Than Rang Tower," "A Shau Tower" and, in a variant by Dick Jonas, "Ubon Tower." It is, of course, also part of a long tradition of songs about inter-service rivalry.
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