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05-29-2009, 03:41 AM
zuludelta
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Zuludelta, this has been a longstanding question of mine concerning Delta teams. How are they structured? In Bowden's book Black Hawk Down, Delta worked in four-man teams and each team leader was an E-7, but other men on the teams, such as two medics, were E-7s as well. But Bowden doesn't really break down the role of each team member. In other words, an SF team typically has teams of six men: Medical Sgt, Comm Sgt, Engineer Sgt, Weapons Sgt, Opearations Sgt and the Detachment Commander or Warrant Officer. Are Delta teams structured similarly?
I wouldn't rightly know the answer to that one. I don't think I've ever come across a TOE document for the "Delta Force" (SFOD-D) organization or a Field Army Manual for SFOD-D operations.
Pure speculation on my part:
- I would think that SFOD-D would follow platoon/squad/fireteam organizational structure for convenience' sake, particularly if their mission profile involves direct action. Why mess with a system that everybody's already trained in and comfortable with?
- Special Forces A-detachments (SFOD-A) are structured differently because the platoon/squad/fireteam hierarchy isn't particularly suited for their primary mission profile, which is FID/counterinsurgency/unconventional warfare. Their organization isn't optimized for fire & movement, but for redundancy in advisory capability (that's why they are organized in 12 man detachments comprised of two senior NCOs in each enlisted SF specialization field and a warrant officer and a detachment commander). If an SF A-detachment has to reorganize itself into fireteams, that probably means somebody screwed up and they now have to resort to direct kinetic engagement with the enemy or as it's reportedly happened in Iraq a couple of times, some commanding officer, in his/her infinite wisdom, decided to use an SF A-detachment for basic infantry purposes, much to the consternation and confusion of the SF operators.
- The way I understand it, SFOD-D has more in common, functionally, with direct action CT units like the SEALs or certain SAS elements rather than SFOD-A, despite having its origins rooted in the Special Forces Groups. With that in mind, I think they would be operationally structured in a similar manner, in "light" platoons of anywhere between 16 to 20 men, which can be divided into multiple fire & movement units (either 4 man fireteams or less commonly, two-man "fire & maneuver" teams) rather than the 12 man structure used by SFOD-A.
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