January 3, 2020
Inside the Birth of the U.S. Army's Delta Force
A secret history.
by Joseph Trevithick
Key point: Even now many details of this top-notch unit remain classified.
After more than three decades and dozens of Hollywood movies, the U.S. Army’s Delta Force—one of Washington’s premier specialized units—is still largely hidden from public view. The Pentagon offers few details about the group, its organization or even how many Delta “operators†there are in total.
But the unit—technically the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment D—is a part of the Army, and has all the formal trappings that come along with being part of that bureaucracy. As a result, some of the detachment’s formative history is a matter of public record.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/inside-birth-us-armys-delta-force-111111
