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Article: Special Forces' job: Be ready for anything.(The Gazette)
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- June 23, 2002
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TBILISI, Georgia _ Chief Warrant Officer Jim Sissons delivered a baby in northern Iraq, pulled locals' rotten teeth in Africa and policed war-ravaged towns in Bosnia.
Now he's teaching top Georgian army officers how to run their forces U.S.-style.
It's typical duty for Army Special Forces soldiers, the so-called "Green Berets."
In Afghanistan, Special Forces soldiers fought with local forces against the Taliban and al-Qaida. Defense experts coined it the "special operations war," and "special forces" has become a catch-all phrase to describe special operations.
But there is only one unit that is officially called Special Forces. It's ...