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DELTA FORCE . Copyright 1983 by Charles A. Beckwith. Epilogue copyright 2000 by C. A. Mobley. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
This book was originally published in 2000 by Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
FIRST WILLIAM MORROW PAPERBACK EDITION PUBLISHED 2013.
ISBN 978-0-06-224969-2
EPub Edition FEBRUARY 2013 ISBN: 9780062268181
13 14 15 16 17 OV/RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Colonel Beckwith dedicates this book
to his wife Katherine
and their three daughters.
Special Military Terms and Acronyms
ADC | Assistant division commander. |
APU | Auxiliary power unit. |
ARVN | Army of the Republic of Vietnam. |
ATT | Army Training Test. |
Brets Rouges | See BPC. |
Bergen | Rucksack (British). |
BPC | Bataillon de Parachutistes de Choc; crack French paratroop unit (Brets Rouges) . |
C-130 | Lockheed Hercules 4-engine multipurpose transport aircraft. |
C-141 | Lockheed StarLifter is larger than C-130 and lacks that aircrafts versatility. |
CIB | Combat Infantrymans Badge. |
CIDG | Civilian Irregular Defense Group (Vietnam). |
CINCPAC | Commander in Chief, Pacific. |
CJCS | Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. |
CJTF | Commander Joint Task Force. |
CSA | Army Chief of Staff. |
CT | Communist Terrorist. |
DCM | Deputy Chief of Mission. |
DCSOPS | Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans. |
Delta Force | 1st Special Forces Operational DetachmentDelta (SFOD-D) . |
DELTA Project, Detachment B52 | Special Forces recon unit Beckwith commanded in Vietnam; also Project DELTA . |
DOD | Department of Defense. |
DZ | Drop Zone. |
Eagle Claw | Code name of mission to free hostages in Iran. |
E and E | Evade and Escape. |
EEI | Essential elements of information. |
EOC | Emergency Operations Center. |
FAC | Forward air controller. |
FM | Field Manual. |
FORSCOM | Forces Command. |
GIGN | Groupe d Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale; French counterterrorist unit. |
GSG-9 | Grenzschutzgruppe 9 (Border Patrol Unit 9); West German counterterrorist unit. |
IAD | Immediate Action Drill; aspect of counterinsurgency and counterterrorist training, stressing readiness for any eventuality. |
IR | Intelligence report. |
IRG | Iranian Revolutionary Guards; also known as Pasdaran . |
JCRC | Joint Casualty Resolution Center, assigned to search for bodies of men killed in Southeast Asia. |
JCS | Joint Chiefs of Staff. |
JFK Center | United States Army John F. Kennedy Center for Military Assistance (formerly Special Warfare Center). |
JTF | Joint Task Force. |
LLBD | Luc Luong Dac Biet; South Vietnamese Special Forces. |
LZ | Landing Zone. |
MAC | Military Air Command. |
MACV | Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. |
MACV-SOG | Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observation Group. |
MILPERCEN | See USAMILPERCEN. |
MOS | Military occupation specialty. |
MRLA | Malayan Races Liberation Party (Communist). |
NVA | North Vietnamese Army. |
OPSEC | Operations Security. |
ORs | Other Ranks (British). |
Pasdaran | Iranian Revolutionary Guards ( IRG ). |
PINS | Palletized Inertial Navigation System. |
Project DELTA | See DELTA Project. |
RDF | Rapid Deployment Force. |
REDCOM | Readiness Command. |
RH-53D | Twin turbine heavy lift helicopter; called Sea Stallions. |
Rice Bowl | Code name of planning phase of Iran rescue mission. |
RV | Rendezvous. |
S&T | Selection and Training. |
SAS | Special Air Service; elite British military special operations unit. |
SATCOM | Satellite Communications. |
SAVAK | Iranian National Intelligence and Security Operation (under the Shah). |
SAVAMA | Iranian (revolutionary) secret police. |
SCIF | Secure Compartmented Information Facility. |
Sea Lions | See RH-53D. |
SEALS | Navy Sea, Air, and Land Teamsequivalent to the U.S. Army Green Berets. |
SFOD-D | or SFOD-Delta See Delta Force. |
Sit rep | Situation report. |
SOTFE | Special Operations Task Force Europe. |
STOL | Short Takeoff and Landing type of aircraft. |
TDY | Temporary duty. |
TO&E | Table of Organization and Equipment. |
TRADOC | Training and Doctrine Command. |
UW | Unconventional Warfare. |
USAMILPERCEN | United States Army Military Personnel Center; also MILPERCEN . |
ZSU-23-4 | ZSU is a Soviet designation for self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, 23 is for caliber of gun (23 mm), 4 for number of guns. |
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