"The "A" Team" is a 1966 song and charting single by Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler.
It was Sadler's second and final American patriotic hit song at the time of the Vietnam War, following the success of "The Ballad of the Green Berets".
[1] The song's lyrics are about the basic twelve-man Special Forces unit.
[2] It is a marching song in six-eight time with music by Leonard Whitcup Cimino to lyrics by Barry Sadler and Phyllis Fairbanks.
"The A Team", the title song to Sadler's second album, made it to No.