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...r spending several days moored pierside, ''Union'' departed on 6 April for special operations at Buckner Bay, Okinawa. On 14 April, the ship anchored at Danang, South Vi ...only to sail again four days later for Chu Lai harbor, Vietnam, conducting special operations en route. On 27 May, she arrived at Danang harbor, South Vietnam, and proce

On April 3, special operations forces arrested one of al-Sadr's assistants, and al-Sadr responded with a c

...for combat, the "flash-bang" is used for police hostage rescues, military special operations, etc. It disorients with an extremely bright light and loud noise, but rare

...l mounts in the doors of helicopters, or on light helicopter turrets. Some special operations helicopters have electrically-powered rotating-barrel machine guns.

...things) Editor, with my historical interests in military, intelligence and special operations, and contemporary U.S. politics. There's a substantial amount of [[Vietnam

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...ollection, covert action (at least by the CIA, if not by the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)), and intelligence analysis. It exerts authority through

...l, from graduates of first world staff and war colleges, to highly trained special operations forces (SOF) to those totally untrained in the specific area where the FID | title = The Need for Special Operations Forces in the Andean Region's Counter Drug Efforts

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[[Special reconnaissance#Fire Related Missions|Special operations teams]] in Afghanistan routinely directed B-52 attacks, on nearby targets,

...especially in an area where it is isolated from combat forces, a raid, by special operations forces, can be mounted to physically remove as much as possible, then measu

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...B" of the Fifth Air Force supported air support for both military and CIA special operations. When CIA guerrillas were attacked in 1951-1952, the air unit had to adapt

...he [[United States Department of Defense]] was given additional budget for special operations. There has been more of an emphasis on the military running larger paramili ...ly called the [[Intelligence Support Activity]] (ISA) are part of the U.S. Special Operations Command, where their classified names and special access program designatio

...lower aircraft more exposed to the ground, such as helicopters (especially special operations helicopters such as the MH-53 PAVE LOW), gunships such as the AC-130, and a

...021)|Afghanistan and Iraq Wars. In Iraq, he was in Force Reconnaissance, a special operations unit. He left as a captain (land forces)|captain, dissatisfied with command

...had, respectively, been under the control of the semi-autonomous Office of Special Operations and Office of Policy Coordination, covert actions may have been launched wi ...rved at a lower level in the CIA. Helms became Director of the [[Office of Special Operations]], a pre-CIA espionage organization, after [[Second World War]] OSS service

...ing to contest the coalition force coming from the south. This combined US Special Operations and Kurdish force soundly defeated Saddam's Army, a major military success, ...ole" said Robert Andrews, former deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict. "They can't be denied a role anymore."<ref name

...ef of Staff GEN Peter Schoomaker, himself from the light infantry side and special operations, to select him to take command in 2007. <ref>Ricks, ''Gamble'', p. 23</ref> ...a, prior to the surge, tended to operate in larger units, often supporting Special Operations forces making raids on time-sensitive enemy targets. As the surge began, th