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Meet the Legendary Founder of Delta ForceThe new elite unit focused on anti-terror and hostage recovery ops, based on the model of the British SAS. In 1952, the Green Bay Packers drafted “Chargin’ Charlie” Beckwith from the University of Georgia. But seeing as how the Korean War was already in its second year, Chargin’ Charlie declined the offer for a different green uniform.Commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, Charles Beckwith served a few years on the Korean Peninsula, in war and later peacetime. It was after Korea that he joined the 82d Airborne, and later, U.S. Army Special Forces.Read more at: http://scout.com/military/warrior/Article/Meet-the-Legendary-Founder-of-Delta-Force-101459665
