The answer wasn’t volunteers off a form. It was a painstaking, man-by-man selection.
In 1977, U.S. Army Colonel Charlie Beckwith returned from a tour in Britain, where he’d served with the SAS. He was convinced: America needed a dedicated, full-time counterterrorism unit capable of hostage rescue and high-risk missions. The existing Special Forces (Green Berets) were trained for unconventional warfare, not precision hostage rescue. first delta force members
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Delta’s baptism of fire was (April 1980)—the failed attempt to rescue 52 American hostages from Tehran. man-by-man selection. In 1977