Green Verte.
English translation: Green Beret (U.S. Army Special Forces)
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peer agreement (net): +2Green Beret (U.S. Army Special Focrces) Explanation: Hi Douglas, Funnily enough, I just tried writing "beret" with my MS Word language set to Spanish and guess what it suggests: verte. Seems the writer may have simply accepted MS Word's suggestion. Good luck! Álvaro :O) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 7 mins (2008-11-13 14:12:48 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- A quick compilation of different meanings for Green Beret on Wikipedia: A green beret is a type of headgear. Green Berets can refer to: Military Special Forces (United States Army), colloquial term Naval commandos (France) (Bérets Verts), colloquial term Parachute Troops School (Boinas Verdes), colloquial term for the Portuguese Escola de Tropas Páraquedistas (ETP) 1st Raider/Paratrooper Brigade (Greece) (Prasinoskoufides), colloquial term for the Greek Dynameis Katadromon. Zelene beretke Bosnian, initially paramilitary, force during the Bosnian War from 1992—1995 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Berets -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 10 mins (2008-11-13 14:15:11 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I took N.A. to stand for Norteamérica, an erroneous but somewhat common reference to the U.S. N.A. may indeed mean something else, but pretty confident that the verte here owes to the MS Word correction I pointed out. :O) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 12 mins (2008-11-13 14:17:49 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Another Wikpedia entry lists military forces that wear the green beret as part of their uniform, but Chilean forces are not among those referred, so perhaps the N.A. is the U.S. after all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_beret |
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| Reference: Confirmando la respuesta de Alvaro Reference information: Las Fuerzas Especiales del Ejército de Estados Unidos (en inglés: United States Army Special Forces), también conocidos con el apodo de 'Boinas Verdes' (Green Berets) es una unidad de operaciones especiales del Ejército de Estados Unidos http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuerzas_Especiales |
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