JOC (Joint Operations Center)
Johnson, Hansford T., Gen.
Johnson, H. K., Gen.
Johnson, Jesse, Col.
Johnson, Jim, Maj. Gen.
Johnson, Lyndon
Johnson, Richard “Zoot,” Col.
Joint Task Force Alpha
Joint Task Force Bravo
Jones, Devon, Lt.
Jordan
JSOTF (Joint Special Operations Task Force)
evolution of
JTFP Headquarters
JTF South (Joint Task Force South)
J-3
Jumblatt, Walid
Jump boots
Jump mission
Jump School
JUST CAUSE, See also BLUb SPOON
Ma Bell missions
maps
Rio Hato
search for Noriega
stability operations
Task Force Atlantic
Task Force Black
Task Force Pacific
Task Force Semper Fi
Task Force White
Torrijos-Tocumen Airport
vetting process
Kelley., Gen.
Kelley, Thomas W., Lt. Gen.
Kellogg, Keith, Col.
Kelly, Frank, Brig. Gen.
Kelso, Frank, Adm.
Kemph, Pete, Lt. Gen.
Kennedy, John F.
Kernan, Buck, Col.
Kershner, Mike, Col.
Khomeini, Ayatollah
Kidnapping
Kingsley, Mike, Capt.
Kingston, Robert “Bob,” Maj. Gen.
Kinzer, Joe, Brig. Gen.
Klinghoffer, Leon
Klinghoffer, Marilyn
KLONDIKE KEY
Korean War
Kostrzebski, Dan
Kraus, James, Col.
Krueger, Chris, Lt. Col.
Kupperman, Robert
Kurds
culture of
health effort for
Pesh Merga
rebellion after Gulf War
refugee camps of
return home
supply effort for
Kuwait61
and Gulf War
invasion by Iraq
Kuwait City
Laboa, Monsignor
Labron, Uri
LAMPS helicopters
Land navigation
Language proficiency
Lansdale, Edward, Col.
Laos
“La Violencia”
LAVs (Light Armored Vehicles)
LAW (light antitank weapon)
Lawson, Gen.
LCEs (Liaison Coordination Elements)
Leadership
Leadership Reaction Course
Lebanon
efforts at finding a solution
escalation of violence in
Israeli withdrawal from
new form of terrorism
new threat from suicide bombers
roots of tragedy of
LeBlanc, Maj.
Left hook
Leonik, Bob, Maj.
Levin, Jeremy
LHAs
Libya
Lindsay, Jim, Gen.
Little, John, T., Lt. Col.
LLDB (Vietnamese Special Forces)
Lodge Act
Loefke, Bernie, Maj. Gen.
Long, David
LPIIs
Luck, Gary, Lt. Gen.
MAAG (Military Assistance Advisory Group)
MAAG Laos (Military Assistance Advisory Group Laos)
MAC (Military Airlift Command)
MacArthur, Douglas, Gen.
McCarthy, Jim, Gen.
McClure, Robert, Brig. Gen.
MacFairlaine, Robert “Bud”
McGarr, Lionel C., Lt. Gen.
McGrath, Marcus, Archbishop
MACV (Military assistance Command, Vietnam)
MACVSOG (Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observation Group)
Magsaysay, Ramon
Malta
Maneuver Training Centers
Mao Tse-tung
Maquis
Marines
Maronite Christians
Martin, Corby, Capt.
Massey, Andy, Col.
MAU (Marine Amphibious Unit)
Maurabi Toon
Mayaguez (merchant ship)
Meadows, Dick, Maj.
Medellín drug cartel
Medical expertise
Medical training
Meguid, Abdel
Metcalfe, Adm.
METL (Mission Essential Task List)
MEL (SOC) (Marine Expeditionary Unit—Special Operations Capable)
MFP-11 (Major Force Program 11)
MIKE Force
MILES devices
Military Support Group
Milosevic, Slobodan
Mines
Miss Vicki (Noriega girlfriend)
Modelo Prison, Panama
Mogadishu, Somalia
Molqi, Majed
Montagnards
Moore, Robin
Moreau, Arthur “Art,” Vice Adm.
MREs (meals-ready-to-eat)
Mugniyah, Imad
Munich Olympics massacre
Muse, Kurt
Mussolini, Benito
Napalm
National Command Authority
National Security Directive
Nation building
NATO
Navy
Nazis
NCOs
NEOs (noncombatant evacuation operations)
New Jersey (battleship)
Newlin, Michael
New terrorism
Nicaragua
Night boat drop
Night parachute jump
Nimitz (aircraft carrier)
Nine Rules of Conduct (Mao)
Nixon, Richard
NMCC (National Military Command Center)
Noriega, Manuel Antonio
Normand, Tony, Col..
North Vietnam
Norwegian Princess (cruise liner)
Nunn, Sam
Nunn-Cohen Amendement.
NVA (North Vietnamese Army)
O’Boyle, Randy, Capt.
Officers
Offset bombing
OGs
On War (von Clausewitz)
OOTW (Operations Other Than War)
Operations
ALLIED FORCE
BLUE SPOON
DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM
EAGER ANVIL
EARNEST WILL.
HONEY BADGER
JEDBURGH
JUST CAUSE
PACIFIC WIND
PROMOTE LIBERTY
PROVIDE COMFORT
SWITCHBACK
URGENT TURY
OPLAN
OSC (operational subgroup)
OSS (Office of Strategic Service)
PACIFIC WIND.
Palastra, Joseph T., Gen.
Palestinians
Panama
Canal Zone
1989 elections
Noriega
search for
October 3 coup attempt
Operation BLUE SPOON
Operation JUST CAUSE
Operation PROMOTE LIBERTY
post-action thoughts
transition and redeployment
Panzer Gruppe
Parachute Battalion (movie)
Parachute landing falls
Paratroopers
Paris Peace Agreement (1995)
Pathet Lao
“Patrick,”
Patrolling
Pattan, George, Gen.
Pave Lows21
Paz, Robertt Lt.
PDF (Panamanian Defense Force)
PEACE FOR GALILEE
Peacekeeping
Peers, William, Maj. Gen.
Penetration teams
Pentagon finances
Perez, Gilberto, Maj.
Perry, Bill
Perry, Lt. Col.
Pesh Merga
Peters, Michael, Lt. Col.
Philippines
PIRATE
PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)
Poindexter, John, Vice Adm.
POM (Program Objective Memorandum)
Porr, Darrel, Maj. Dr.
POST TIME
Potter, Richard W., Brig Gen.
Powell, Colin, Gen.
PPBS (Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System)
PRAYER BOOK
PRC-90-radio
PRESENCE
Project Delta
PROMOTE LIBERTY
Propaganda
PROVIDE COMFORT
battle for lives
communications effort
debriefing
health effort
Kurdish culture
Pesh Merga guerrillas
rebellions in Iraq
refugee camps
refugee return to homes
supply effort
PSYOPs (psychological operations)
Q course
Quassis, Simon, Col.
Rabb, Ambassador
Radar site neutralization
Raff, Edson D., Lt. Col.
Rangers
Hanger School
Rappeling
Rashadat GOSP
RDJTF (Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force)
Reagan, Ronald
Red Army
REDCOM (U.S. Readiness Command)
REEORCER (Reinforcement of Germany)
Refugee camps
Regier, Frank
Renacer prison, Panama
Republican Guards (Iraq)
Reserve chute
Resolution
Resupply
RIB (rigid inflatable boat)
Richardson, Bill, Gen.
Richardson, Charles, Col.
Ridgeway, Matthew, Maj. Gen.
Rifaat, Yehia
Ringers
Rio Hato, Panama
Robin Sage
Rockwork
Roosma, Will, Maj. Gen.
ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps)
Rumsfeld, Donald
Russians
Sadler, Barry, Sgt.
Said (Hassan Izz-al-din)
Samuel B. Roberts (frigate)
Sand Flea exercises
SAS
SATCOM radios
SATRAN
Saudi Arabia
Saudi National Guard
Scholes, Ed, Brig. Gen.
Scholtes, Richard “Dick,” Maj. Gen.
Schoonmaker, Peter J., Gen.
Schultz, Richard
Schwarzkopf, Norman, Gen.
Scud missiles41
Sea Isle City
SEALs
Search-and-rescue (CSAR) missions
Sea Stallion helicopter
Sensory deprivation
September
SERE (Survival, Escape, Resistance, and Evasion)
17 May Agreement
VII Corps
Shafer, Ted, RearAdm.
Shalikashvili, John, Lt. Gen.
Shaw, Bill, Capt.
Sheikholislam, Hosein
Shelton, Henry, Gen.
Shiite Muslims
in Iraq
in Lebanon
Ship takedown
Shultz, George35
Sigonclla (NATO base)
Silkworm missiles4
Simons, Arthur D. “Bull,” Lt. Col.
Sims, Jeffrey, Master Sgt.
Singlaub, Jack, Lt.
Skyraiders
Slade, Lawrence R., Lt.
Smith, Leighton “Snuffy,” Adm.
Smith, Ray, Capt.
Snell, Mike, Col.
SOCCENT
SOCEUR (Special Operations Command Europe)
SOCOM
SOCOM POM
SOCOR (Special Operations Coordinator)
SOE (Special Operations Executive)
SOG
SOLL-11 qualified
Somalia
Souk Al Gharb, Lebanon
SOUTHCOM (U.S. Southern Command)
Southwest Asia
Soviet Union
Speakes, Larry
Spearman, Bill, Capt.
Special Operations Forces (SOF)
adaptation of
A-Detachments
African Crisis Response Initiative
in Balkans
between the wars
Bible of
change in
and CIA
demining operations
early
as force of choice
funding
graduation exercise
in Haiti
in Iraq
in Kuwait
mission
NEOs
operations
in Panama
peacekeeping and training
professionalism of
in Somalia
training
modern
Q course
in Vietnam
Special reconnaissance (SR) missions
account by Richard Balwanz
Special Warfare Center and School
“Spectre” gunships
Speers, John, Col.
Stanley, Leroy, Col.
State-supported terrorism
Stealth Fighter
Stiner, Carl, Gen.
and Achille Lauro
call to Special Forces
as CINC USSOCOM
early years
graduation of
as Green Beret
and Jump School
on leadership
in Lebanon
and Operation BLUE SPOON
and Operation DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM
and Operation JUST CAUSE
and Operation PACIFIC WIND
on Operation PROVIDE COMFORT
and Ranger School
on September
training of
on training principles
and TWA Flight
in Vietnam
Strategic Hamlet Program
Street Without Joy (Fall)
Suicide bombings
Sullivan, Gordon, Gen.
Sungari
Survival, escape, and evasion
Swenor, Doug
Swing landing fall trainer
SWITCHBACK
Syria
and Lebanon
Taft, William H.
Takedowns
Tangney, Bill, Col.
Tannous, Ibrahim, Gen.
Task Force Atlantic
Task Force Bayonet
Task Force [Black
Task Force Blue
Task Force Green
Task Force Pacific
Task Force Proven Force
Task Force Red
Task Force Semper Fi
Task force White
Team James
Terrorism
Testrake, John
Tet offensive
Thach (destroyer)
Thayer, Charles M.
Theater SOC upgrades
Third World
Thompson, Robert, Sir
Thurman, Maxwell, Gen.
Tinajitas, Panama
Tojo parachutes
Torbett, Ronald, Sgt. FC
Torrijos, Omar, Brig. Gen.
Torrijos-Tocumen Airport, Panama
TRADOC (Training and Doctrine Command)
Training
in Army
combat readiness
foreign aviation
medical
modern
principles
Special Forces
Trask, Tom, Capt.
Tunisia
Turkey727783
Turnow, Robin, Brig. Gen.
Tutlle, Jerry, Rear Adm.
TWA Flight
28th Infantry Division
Unconventional warfare
UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees)
United States, as target
URGENT FURY
USAREUR (U.S. Army Europe) survival course
USARSO (U.S. Army South)
USEAT
USEUCOM (U.S. European Command)
USS Nicholas
USSOCOM (U.S. Special Operations Command)
USS Saratoga (aircraft carrier)
USSTRICOM (U.S. Strike Command)
U-10 Helio Courier
Vaught, James, Maj. Gen.
Veliotes, Nicholas
Vessey, Jack, Gen.
Viet Cong.
Vietnam
Village Defense Program
Vines, John, Lt. Col.
Virginia (cruiser)
Volekmann, Russell, Lt. Col.
Volmer, Pat, Lt. Col.
von Clauscewitz, Carl
Vuono, Carl, Gen.
Wagner, Robert, Lt. Col.
War College
Warner, John
Wars
Wauthier, Capt.
Weapon of mass destruction
Weapons programs
Weatherford, James, Sgt.
Weigand, Robert, Maj. Gen.
Weinberger, Caspar
Weir, Benjamin, Rev.
White Star Program
White Team
Wilderness survival
Wimbrown VII,
Woerner, Frederick E, Gen.
World Trade Center
World War
Yarborough, Bill, Brig. Gen.
Yemen
Yogoslavia
Zawodny, Jay, Dr.
Zimmerman, Christian
Zinni, Tony, Brig. Gen.
1 At one time, CA was thought of as an adjunct to military police—useful once the battle was over and order was being restored. After a war, more than police protection was needed. Later it was realized that CA could be useful during a conflict (Carl Stiner used his CA resources to great effect during the Panama invasion) or even before a conflict begins, to prevent it.
2 Another well-known Philippine guerrilla, Colonel Wendell Fertig, who had gallantly fought the Japanese on Mindanao, later joined Bank and Volckmann’s staff. A pretty good movie was made in the 1950s about Fertig, and you can read about him in our friend W. E. B. Griffin’s novel Behind the Lines.
3 On December 10, 1955, Brigadier General McClure’s Psychological Warfare Center had become the Special Warfare Center and School.
4 An unexpected but gratifying endorsement came from the Soviet censors, who banned “The Ballad of the Green Beret” in the USSR.
5 Because of his background, some of his Army friends later came to call him “Country Carl”: a friendly nickname, not a derisive one. Stiner has always loved his origins, and anyone mistaking Stiner for a rube is likely to discover his own mistake with rich embarrassment.
6 My brother Tom served in the army for twenty-nine years, retiring as a colonel. He was elected County Executive six years ago, and still serves in that position. A second brother, Glen, died at age forty-one. My third brother, Emory, is an executive with Burlington Industries. My sister, JoAnn, the youngest, is a registered nurse.