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The 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) was featured in the movie The Green Berets, starring John Wayne. Wayne's character, Colonel Mike Kirby, was based on Larry Alan Thorne.
In the film Apocalypse Now, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz is the operations officer for the 5th Special Forces Group. Although Kurtz is a Colonel, the operations officer for a Special Forces Group is normally a major or lieutenant colonel.
The 'Tom Clancy's "Ghost Recon"' series features the 5th Special Forces Group, 1st Battalion, Delta Company, known in the games as "The Ghosts."
In the Season 1 episode 10 ("West Coast Turnaround") of the TV show The A-Team John "Hannibal" Smith stated the team was with the "5th Special Forces Group." in Vietnam and the he was the Lt. Colonel in charge of the unit.
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