Bo Gritz, also known as James Gordon Gritz, has died at the age of 87, according to his wife. The Green Beret and Vietnam War veteran was a major inspiration for Sylvester Stallone 's character of ...

James “Bo” Gritz, a retired Green Beret and Vietnam war veteran who claimed to inspire the “Rambo” movie character, died on Feb. 27, his wife said. He was 87. Gritz lived in Sandy Valley, a small ...

Fifty-five miles north of Saigon, at a critical road junction in Phuoc Long Province, 11 American Green Berets were settling into what should have been a routine advisory mission. Detachment A-342, ...

Bo Gritz, a Vietnam War hero who inspired Sylvester Stallone's character John Rambo in "First Blood," is dead.