Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. This section does not cite any references or sources. Haney (ret.), suggest the unit's strength ranges from between 800 to 1000 personnel, including the following operational groups: A number of sources including the book Inside Delta Force by Command Sergeant Major Eric L. Virtually all information about the unit is highly classified and details about specific missions or operations are generally not publicly available.
Command of 1st SFOD-D is a Colonel's billet. The unit is under the organization of the US Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) but is controlled by the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). The Joint Special Operations Command was created for command and control of the various counter-terrorism units of the U.S. The Navy's Special Warfare Development Group, formerly designated Seal Team Six, was created for maritime counter-terrorism operations. The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), also known as the Night Stalkers, was created specifically for special operations requiring aviation support. government realized more changes needed to be made. The review commission that examined the failure found 23 problems with the operation, among them unbriefed weather encountered by the aircraft, command-and-control problems between the multi-service component commanders, a collision between a helicopter and a ground-refueling tanker aircraft, and mechanical problems that reduced the number of available helicopters from eight to five (one fewer than the minimum desired) before the mission contingent could leave the transloading/refueling site.Īfter the failed operation, the U.S. The operation was aborted after aviation failures. The unit was assigned to Operation Eagle Claw and ordered to covertly enter the country and recover the hostages from the embassy by force on the nights of 24 and 25 April in 1980. On 4 November 1979, shortly after Delta had been created, 53 Americans were taken captive and held in the U.S. In the meantime, the 5th Special Forces Group created Blue Light, a small counter-terrorist contingent which operated until Delta became fully operational in the early 1980s. Beckwith had estimated that it would take 24 months to get his new unit mission-ready. Finally, in the mid-70's, as the threat of terrorism grew, Pentagon brass tapped Beckwith to form the unit. He briefed military and government figures, who were overtly resistant to create a new unit outside of Special Forces, or change existing methods. Army Special Forces in that period focused on unconventional warfare, but Beckwith recognized the need for "not only teachers, but doers." He envisioned highly adaptable and completely autonomous small teams with a broad array of special skills for direct action and counter-terrorist missions. Army's vulnerability in not having an SAS-type unit. Upon his return, Beckwith presented detailed report highlighting the U.S. Charles Beckwith, a Special Forces officer and Vietnam veteran, had served as an exchange officer with the British Army's Special Air Service (22 SAS Regiment) during the Malayan Emergency. Key military and government figures had already been briefed on a model for this type of unit in the early 1960s. government to develop a full-time counter-terrorism unit. The Central Intelligence Agency's highly secretive Special Activities Division (SAD) and more specifically its elite Special Operations Group (SOG) often works with – and recruits – operators from Delta Force.ĭelta Force was formed after numerous, well-publicized terrorist incidents in the 1970s.
Delta Force and its Navy counterpart, the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, are the United States military's primary counter-terrorism units.ĭelta Force's primary tasks are counter-terrorism, direct action, and national intervention operations, although it is an extremely versatile group capable of conducting many types of covert missions, including, but not limited to, hostage rescues and raids. While 1st SFOD-D is administratively supported by USASOC, it falls under the operational control of the Joint Special Operations Command. It was formerly listed as the Combat Applications Group by the Department of Defense but has since been officially re-designated the Army Compartmented Elements (ACE). 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1st SFOD-D), popularly known as Delta Force, is one of the United States' four secretive tier-one counter-terrorism and Special Mission Units.
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