User blog comment:Urbancommando77/SAS VS Green Beret/@comment-4098900-20120410114905/@comment-4098900-20120411003126

In the Cold war, there was a group of Communist Guerillas in El Salvador that were kicking the shit out of El Salvadorian gov. The Green Berets were sent in to train the gov. from 1981-85. to take out the Guerrilas. Reagan told them to stay out of combat as much as possible, to avoid another Vietnam. (Which given the results of this probably wouldn't have happened). Anyways in the end the El Salvadorian gov. toppled them, in 85 the Green Berets left, six years later the Guerillas gave up, they were just unable to topple them in the end.