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Article: Special Forces' job: Be ready for anything
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- June 17, 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 a small, secretive army within the U.S. Army that ...