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Does Delta Force actually exist?
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01-22-2022, 12:14 PM
CG Steve
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MGurlea
When G.I. Joe came back in the early 80s Delta Force was still kind of new and super secret so Hasbro probably did not know about them at the time. Many years ago (I think early 90s?) there was a big article in a major magazine about how Delta Force was the real life G.I. Joe. I remember reading it when I was young.
Delta Force is real and acknowledge at this point. When I worked for the Government I was told by some people who should know that Delta Force is basically a more highly trained Green Beret unit that is on call 24/7/365 and can deploy anywhere in the world ASAP similar to how Seal Team 6 is just a more highly trained SEAL Team that is on call and deploys at a moments notice. Both teams are tasked with the highest stakes missions and does stuff other teams don't do. Watch
Black Hawk Down
. That was a major Delta Force operation. Also, one of their first operations, Operation Eagle Claw where they tried to rescue Iran Hostages, there was just a 2 hour documentary on History Channel last year called "Desert One." It was really good and had lots of former Government officials openly talking about the operation and Delta Force.
P.S. While looking up the name of the History Channel documentary I came across this wikipedia page and at the bottom it says this:
"This incident (Operation Eagle Claw) is referenced a few times in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero comic book, in particular as the source of the injuries sustained by the popular masked character Snake Eyes"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw
Yes, I'm sure you would agree they are much more than just a better trained Special Forces unit. Delta, or Combat Applications Group as they later became called as well is one of three Tier 1 special ops units in the US military. The Navy's DEVGRU (Seal Team 6) and the Air Force's 24th Special Tactics Squadron being the other two. They are set apart from the "regular" special operations units. I say that with all due respect as I was just a regular USMC reservist in my time.
I've seen some of those guys around when I was deployed but there's no way to tell who or what they were sometimes as they would often don the uniform of the predominant conventional unit in the area. I also read a lot of nonfiction military/current history but there's no way to keep up with how these units evolved without being in them.
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