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standard reactive 0300 mission set

Stanley, Sam

Starkey, Jerome

State Department

MEK and

in Syria

status of forces agreement (SOFA)

stealth technology

for Black Hawks

for Little Birds

Sterett
(U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer)

Stethem, Robert

Stevens, J. Christopher

Stiner, Carl (“Country”)

Achille Lauro
and

Iraq and

Panama and

in the Tank

TF 160 and

Stonesifer, Kristofer

Stryker

Stufflebeem, John

Sudan

bin Laden in

hostages in

suicide bombings

of
Cole

in Iraq

Suleimani, Qassem

Sunni insurgency

in Iraq

al-Zarqawi and

supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)

Supporters of Islam (Ansar al-Islam)

Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI)

Suriname

SUVs

in Iraq

of League of the Righteous

Syria

chemical weapons in

deck of cards mission and

Ghadiya in

Iraq and

nuclear weapons in

Quds Force in

WMD in

T-55 tanks

Tactical Coordination Detachment, in Colombia

tactical patience

tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)

tagging system, in Beirut

Tahir, Qari

Takur Ghar

Taliban

in Afghanistan

Northern Alliance and

the Tank

Stiner in

Task Force (TF)

Task Force 11

Task Force 14

Task Force 16

Task Force 17

Task Force 20

Task Force 121

Task Force 158

Task Force 160

Achille Lauro
and

in Afghanistan

CT by

Echo Squadron and

in Grenada

in Iraq

in Panama

in Somalia

Soviet helicopter and

in Vietnam

Task Force Black

Task Force Blue

in Afghanistan

in Somalia

WMD and

Task Force Brown

in Afghanistan

bin Laden and

C-5 transport planes for

deck of cards mission and

in F3EAD

in Gecko

Ghadiya and

in Iraq

Montenegro and

Night Stalkers and

in Pakistan

at Shahikot

in Somalia

al-Zarqawi and

Task Force Central

Task Force East

Task Force Falcon

Task Force Gold.
See
Joint Communications Unit

Task Force Gray

Task Force Green

in Fallujah

in Iraq

in Panama

WMD and

Task Force Hammer

Task Force North

Task Force Orange

in Interagency Support Activity

Iran and

ISR and

in Lebanon

NSA and

in Saudi Arabia

in Somalia

Special Forces in

in Syria

Task Force Purple

Task Force Red

Task Force Silver

Task Force Sword

in Afghanistan

bin Laden and

in Gecko

GWOT and

Omar and

Task Force West

Task Force White

Task Force Wolverine

al-Tawhid al-Jihad (the Organization of Monotheism and Jihad)

Taylor, Brad

Taylor, Doug

Team Darby

Team Libya

Team Merrill

Team Nairobi

Team Sana'a

Team Tank

technical surveillance (TS)

Technical Surveillance Element

Tenet, George

Afghanistan and

deck of cards mission and

Rumsfeld and

TEOR.
See
training, evaluation, and operational research

terminal guidance operations

terrain masking

Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center, of FBI

terrorists.
See also
counterterrorism; Global War on Terror; hijackings

hijackings by

with nuclear weapons

TF.
See
Task Force

TFG.
See
Transitional Federal Government

theater special operations forces

Thisted, Poul Hagen

Thomas, Tony

Thompson, John

Thunderbolt II (“Warthogs”)

in Afghanistan

in Iraq

Tier 2 units

Tier 3 units

tier-type organization

Tillman, Pat

Top Officials Exercises (TOPOFFs)

Tora Bora

Torn Victor

TRADEWIND

train the trainer

training, evaluation, and operational research (TEOR)

Transitional Federal Government (TFG), in Somalia

Trautman, Konrad (“KT”)

Trebon, Greg (“Chewbacca”)

Triangle of Death

Trident

in Afghanistan

Blue Squadron and

Red Squadron and

TS.
See
technical surveillance

TTPs.
See
tactics, techniques, and procedures

Tutt, Tom

TWA 847

two-plus-seven-plus-thirty

Typhoon Box

UBL.
See
bin Laden, Osama

UH-1 Iroquois helicopters

UH-60 Black Hawks.
See
Black Hawks

Unblinking Eye

unconventional warfare (UW)

in Afghanistan

Rumsfeld and

United Arab Emirates

unity of effort

unmanned aerial vehicles.
See also
Predators; Reapers

CIA and

in Iraq

Khalaf and

in Pakistan

in Somalia

al-Zarqawi and

urban warfare training

Urgent Fury

Usama bin Laden (UBL).
See
bin Laden, Osama

UW.
See
unconventional warfare

Van Hooser, Pete (“PVH”)

Vanek, Christopher

Vaught, Jim

Vega, Joe

Venezuela

Vessey, John

Vickers, Mike

Victory Base

Vietnam

Phoenix Program in

prisoners of war in

Vogeler, Lance

vortex ring state

Votel, Joe

Iraq and

wagon wheel

war on terror.
See
Global War on Terror

“Warpath. Warpath. Warpath.”

Warsame, Ahmed Abdulkadir

Waugh, Billy

weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
See also
biological weapons; nuclear weapons

in Iraq

in Libya

in Syria

Weeks, Jamie

Weinberger, Caspar

Weir, Benjamin

Wescam ball

in Balkans

deck of cards mission and

White Sands Missile Range

White SOF.
See
theater special operations forces

Winchester

Winter Strike

WMD.
See
weapons of mass destruction

Wolfowitz, Paul

AQSL ExOrd and

Hussein and

women

of AQI

in Balkans

in Gecko

in Iraq

in OST

in Pakistan

with bin Laden

Woodward, Bob

Woolard, Rick

workup

Worrell, Matt

Xbox

Yamamoto, Donald

Yeaw, Ron

Yemen

AQAP in

CT in

Al Qaeda in

Yuldeshev, Tohir

Zar, Abu

al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab

killing of

al-Zawahiri, Ayman

GWOT and

Islamic State and

JIATF and

bin Zayed, Sheikh Mohammed

Zembiec, Doug

Zenawi, Meles

zero illum

Zodiacs

Achille Lauro
and

in Haiti

ZSU antiaircraft gun

Iran hostage-rescue task force commander Major General Jim Vaught and Delta Force commander Colonel “Chargin'” Charlie Beckwith in discussion at the airbase in Wadi Kena, Egypt, prior to the launch of the ill-fated Operation Eagle Claw.
[U.S. Army]

Brigadier General Dick Scholtes, JSOC's first commander, greets Vice President George H. W. Bush during the latter's visit to JSOC on January 5, 1982.
[White House]

A 160
th
Special Operations Aviation Regiment Chinook carrying a Soviet-made Hind helicopter away from the Oadi Doum airbase in northern Chad during Operation Mount Hope III in 1988.
[U.S. Army]

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visits JSOC in November 2001. The tall four-star general in the background is Charlie Holland, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command.
[Defense Department]

SEAL Team 6 operators prepare their Pandur armored vehicles prior to the April 1, 2003, rescue of Army Private Jessica Lynch in Iraq.
[U.S. Navy]

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