Master Sergeant Chris Crane, USA (Ret.)
Master Sergeant Jimmy Dean, USA (Ret.)
Lieutenant Colonel Francis Gabreski, USAF
Lieutenant Colonel Tony Gies, USA (Ret.)
Randy Gingrich
George Grimes, USSOCOM Public Affairs
Command Sergeant Major Jim Hargraves, USA (Ret.)
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Judge, USA (Ret.)
Lieutenant Colonel David W. Kinder, USA (Ret.)
Jerome Klingaman
Staff Sergeant Andy Kublik, USAF
Command Sergeant Major Joe Lupyah, USA (Ret.)
Herbert A. Mason, AFSOC Command Historian
Clay T. McCutchan, AFSOC Assistant Command Historian
Colonel Lee Mize, USA (Ret.)
Major Paul A. Ott, USA
Command Sergeant Major Paul Payne, USA (Ret.)
Colonel Kenneth Poole, USAF
Major Jon Peck, USAF
Major General Richard V. Secord, USAF (Ret.)
Major General Sidney Shacknow, USA (Ret.)
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Smith, USA
Major Dave Snider, USA
Lieutenant General Michael Spigelmirc, USA (Ret.)
Brigadier General Joe Stringham, USA (Ret.)
Lieutenant General William Tangney, USA
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Trask, USAF
Senior Master Sergeant William Waiter, USAF
—General Carl Stiner (Ret.)
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INDEX
Abbas, Abu
A camps
Achille Lauro (cruise ship)
Abbas and Hassan
on board
Cairo
consequences from
Cyprus
the intercept
Sigonella
Washington
A-Detachments.
training
Advance Course
Advanced SEAL Delivery System
Afghanistan
African Crisis Response Initiative
Airborne units
Air Component
Aircraft
Airlift
Akers, Frank, Col.
Algeria
ALLIED FORCE
ALO (authorized level of organization)
At-Qaeda.
Amal.
Ambassadors
Americans
Annicchiarici, Col.
Antoine, Col.
Aoun, Michel
Apaches
Arabs.
Are Lights
Area B-1
Area fire weapons
Arens, Moshe
Aristide.Jean-Bertrand.
Armed Forces Staff College
Army.
game-conservation programs
headgear
institutional svrnbols
officers.
social culture in
training in
Army Green Book
Arthur, Stanley R., Vice Adm.
ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam)
AS (Armée Secrete).
ASD (SOLIC)
Assad, Hafiz.
Asymmetrical warfare
Attrition rate
Atwa. Ali
Austrians
Avoiding detection
AWADS-equipped.
Bad Tolz, Germany
Balkans
“The Ballad of the Green Beret,”
Balwanz, Richard “Bulldog,” CW2
Bank, Aaron.
Bartholomees, Jim, Col.
Bartholomew, Heginald
Barzani, Masud
Basic Officers Course
“Bat Cave ” (King Fahd Airport SF base)
Battalion recon platoon.
Battle of Dak To
BDAs (Bomb Damage Assessments)
B-Detachments
Begin, Menachem
Beirut.
Ben Het
Benjedid. Chadli
Bernsen, Harold J., Rear Adm.
Berri, Nabih
Bin Laden, Osama
Black Hats
Blackhawk
BLIND LOGIC
“Blues,”
BLUE SPOON. See also JUST CAUSE
bomb threat
command-and-control relationships
finalizing
pre-H-hour
provocations from Noriega
revisions to
shooting incident
Boghammer.
Boomer, Watter E., Lt. Gen.
Bowen (destroyer)
Bowie knife
British
Buckley, William “Bill”
Burba, Edwin H., Gen.
Burney, Lin, Col.
Bush, George
Bush, George W.
Bushnell, John.
Cadre training program
Cairo, Egypt
Cambodia
Camp MacKall
CAPSTONE Course
Carney, John, Maj.
Carter, Jimmy
CAS (combat air support)
Castro (Mohammed Ali Hamadi)
Cavezza, Carmen, Maj. Gen.
C-Detachments
Cedras, Raoul, Gen.
CENTCOM (U.S. Central Command)
Center of gravity
CFOI (Command Communications and Electronic Operating Instructions)
Chain of command
Chehab, Fouad
Cheney, Dick
CH-47 Chinooks
Chiang Kai-shek
Christian Phalange
CIA.
and Special Forces
CIDG (Civilian Irregular Defense Group)
CINCEUR
CINCLANT (Commander in Chief, Atlantic)
CINCs.
CINCSOCs.
Cisneros, Marc, Maj. Gen.
Civil Affairs
Clancy, Tom
Clandestine entry
Clark, MarK W., Lt. Gen.
Clifton, Chester V. “Ted,” Maj. Gen.
Cluster bombs
Cody, Dick, Lt. Col.
Cohen, William
Cold War
Collateral damage
Collier, Kenny, (CWO)
Colombia
Colonialism.
Combat readiness training
Combat Talons
Combined Task force Alpha
Command and General Staff College
Commander’s Intent
Communists
Competition
Confidence course
Contact mines
Coriolan
COSVN (Central Office for South Vietnam)
Counterinsurgency
Counterproliferation
Craxi, Prime Minister
Cross-loading
Crowe, William, Adm.
Cruise ships
CSTs (coalition support teams)
Cuba
Curtis, Adam, Lt.
CV-22 Osprey
Cyprus
“Daisy Cutters,”
Dak Pek
Dak To
Dayton Peace Accords
Deep reconnaissance
DEFCON (defensive fire concentration)
Defections
DeGroff, Robert “Buzzsaw,” Sgt.
Del Cid, Lt. Col.
Demining operations
Democratic capitalism
Denied territory
Dennau, Tony, Sgt.
Derickson, Uli
Dc Rosa, Ccrardo, Capt.
Desert One.
DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM. See also PROVIDE COMFORT
air war
deception on Kuwait beaches
postwar observations
PSYOPs
result of.
Seud missiles
special reconnaissance missions
SR mission account by Richard Balwanz
Desert training
Detachment B
Devlin, Daniel D., Lt. Col.
Dien Bien Phu
Dietz, Tom, Lt.
Dignity Battalions.
Diplomatic immunity
Direct-fire weapons
Discipline
Dominique Leb. Lt. (Jacques Le Bel de
Penguilly)
Domino Theory
Donovan, “Wild Bill,” Gen.
Downing, Wayne, Maj. Gen.
in Kuwait
and Operation PACIFIC WIND
in Panama
Drug trafficking
Druze PSP
Dunbar, Layton, Col.
EAGER ANVIL
EARNEST WILL
Edmonds, Maurice, Maj.
EDRE (emergency deployment readiness exercise)
Egypt
Egypt Air
XVIII Airborne Corps
Eisenhower (aircraft carrier)
ELABORATE MAZE
Emerson, Hank, Maj. Gen.
Endara, Guillermo
End state
Entebbe Airport rescue
EUCOM (U.S. European Command)
Fairbairn, William, Maj.
Fairbanks, Richard
Fall, Bernard
FFI (Force Francaises d’Interieur)
Fintel, Tim, Col.
Fister, Bruce, Brig. Gen.
FLIR (Forward Looking Infrared Receiver)
Florer, Stan, Lt. Col.
Flynn, Mike, Col.
F-117s
Force package
Force
Foreign aviation training
FORSCOM
Fort Benning
Fort Bragg
Fort Cimarron, Panama
Foss, John, Lt. Gen.
Franks, Fred, Lt. Gen.
Free French
French
Friendly-fire incidents
F-16s
FSSF (First Special Service Force)
FTP (Franc Tireurs Partisans)
“Gabriel Demonstration”
Galvin, James, Gen.
Game-conservation programs
Gardner, Bobbie, Sgt.
Garner, Jay M., Maj. Gen.
Gatanas, Col.
“Gators”
Gemayel, Amin
Gemayel, Bashir
Geneva Accords
Geraghty, Tim, Col.
German commandos
Germans
Giroldi, Moises, Maj.
Glosson, Buster C., Brig. Gen.
Gnecknow, Jerry C., Rear Adm.
Gobbler Woods
Goldwater-Nichols Act (1986). See also Nunn-Cohen Amendment
GPS (global positioning system)
Graduation exercise
Gray, George, Maj. Gen.
Green beret
Green Berets
The Green Berets (Moore)
Grenada
Guadaleanal (assault ship)
Guam
Guerrero, Leon, Chief Sgt. Maj.
Guerrillas
Guest, James, Maj. Gen.
Gulf War. See also PROVIDE COMFORT
air war
deception on Kuwait beaches
end of
first
postwar observations
PSYOPs
Scud missiles
special reconnaissance missions44
Habib, Phillip
“Hail Mary,”
Haiti
Hakim, Maj. Gen.
Hamdan, Abbas, Brig. Gen.
Harkins, Paul, Gen.
Hartzog, Bill, Brig. Gen.
Hassan
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Headgear
Helfer, Rick, Maj.
Hercules
Hezbollah
Hide sites
Higgins, Maj.
Hill
Hill
Hilsman, Roger
Hip-pocket training
Hitler, Adolf
Hobson, Jim, Maj. Gen.
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Holland, Charlie R.
Holloway, James L., Adm.
HONEY BADGER
Hooton, Hoot, Col.
Hopkins, Charles, Sgt.
Horner, Chuck, Lt. Gen.
Hostage-taking
Hoyt, Lt. Col.
Hubert, Capt.
Huff, Paul B., Sgt.
Humble, Howard, Maj.
HUMINT (human intelligence)
Hunt, Joe, Lt. Col.
Hurley, Pat, Sgt. Maj.
Hussein, Saddam
Indochina
IQ requirement
Iran
hostage crisis
Iran Ajr
Iran-Iraq War
Iraq
and Gulf War
invasion of Kuwait
Islam
Islamic Jihad
Islamic revolution
Isolation area
Israel
Israelis
and Achille Lauro takedown
withdrawal from Lebanon
Italy
Jacobelly, Jake, Col.
Jamerson, James, Maj. Gen.
Japan
JEDBURGH
Jedhurgh Tems
Jeremiah, Dave, Rear Adm.
Jews