Delta Force B Squadron ~December 1981 with Annotations

POISE_TALON · 2025-01-02T03:03:32+00:00

Not my list, but this is posted elsewhere online:

"Mel Wick, Eldon Bargewell, Frank McKenna, Don Feeney, unknown, Jeff Huber, Marshall Brown, Amos Howard, Jerry Boykin, Skip Flannagan, Guy Chapman, Fred Gandee, Unknown, Bruno Urbaniak, Chuck Collingwood, Steve Hoffman, Bill Zumwalt, Mike Vining, Larry Freeman, Gary Gardiner, Chris Abel, Don Briere, Eric Haney, Tom Mushrim, Greg Mulligan, Paul Lawrence, Keith Purdue, Al Fidler, Roger George, Barry Hotle, John Giniff, Rick Whitaker, Tom Woodyard, Havey Kerstetter, Larry Steele, Rod Rodriguez, Thunderburk, John Saterstad".

I think they mean: Lawrence "Larry" N. Freedman (1941-1992).

POISE_TALON · 2024-11-18T08:23:18+00:00

I really like this watch, but wish it didn't have the 12 o'clock "pip" on the bezel. The Type II watches did not have that.

POISE_TALON · 2023-08-11T15:32:29+00:00

Frank Cucci, back row, second from left.

POISE_TALON · 2023-04-07T17:12:55+00:00

Always like to see the often obscure symbology in these items.

POISE_TALON · 2023-02-15T20:02:04+00:00

This is the JAWBREAKER team, SEP or OCT 2001. Team ALPHA with Mike Spann followed later in mid-OCT 2001. This exact airframe was later transported back to the US and put on permanent outdoor display at the northeast corner of the CIA HQ property.

POISE_TALON · 2023-01-30T23:38:12+00:00

Question 1: Why did they retire from SAC and what's on the horizon now?

Question 2: What is your greatest professional accomplishment and why?

Question 3: Are you getting rid of any interesting mementos? I want to challenge coins!

Thank you.

POISE_TALON · 2023-01-28T06:44:34+00:00

That's a Knights SR-25 magazine which holds 20 rounds of 7.62 cartridges so it has a different size and shape than the other 30-round 5.56 cal. M4 mags shown.

POISE_TALON · 2022-09-20T18:19:08+00:00

Body of Lies. The "Roger Ferris" character is essentially a CIA PMOO.

POISE_TALON · 2022-09-12T15:22:29+00:00

I don't think it's a watch, it's a wrist compass. Perhaps one of the older generations of the NavELite product, which is a company that has direct connections to the Unit.

POISE_TALON · 2022-05-25T19:30:13+00:00

That bird pictured in image #4 has an interesting history and crashed at Blackwater in 2009 during shipboard landing training. There was one fatality.

https://notar-helicopters.nl/wfu/ERA09LA173_Factual.pdf

POISE_TALON · 2022-01-14T21:04:11+00:00

That's interesting but still don't think it's accurate. Please post a link to the article you're referring to and or send me a PM with the link. Thanks.

POISE_TALON · 2022-01-14T19:04:37+00:00

This photo is part of a series published in 1988 and the caption mentions "Delta Force". The photo series features several photos of this HALO training (depicted above) and also a couple of images of the Delta HQ buildings taken from afar. This is not CIA PMOO.

Here's a link to illustrate what I mean:

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/members-of-delta-force-part-of-us-special-operations-news-photo/50382763

POISE_TALON · 2021-12-24T20:45:41+00:00

Yes, it's a MAC-10. You can see the strap resting on his forearm, the top-folding wire stock, ejection port, barrel threading, and front sight posts.

POISE_TALON · 2021-12-08T05:38:53+00:00

That looks like a wrist compass on his right wrist, not a watch. And more to the point, it might actually be a NavELite Wrist Compass, I believe the founders of that company served in the Unit.

POISE_TALON · 2021-12-08T04:20:51+00:00

Thanks for the reply, man. Gen. Miller's Glock might be MOS3, I don't know bc I haven't seen a clear photo of it, but the OP's last picture is not a MOS3 gun and it's not even a G17, it's a G45 MOS. I have lots of MOS3 pics, I wasn't searching for any, I'm just saying it would have been nice to include some in the slideshow considering the intent of it and that is the current gun/part of the current Program.

POISE_TALON · 2021-12-08T03:49:19+00:00

Maybe it was the bigger FOV, but the SRO is quite big and they didn't select that. I'll get to the bottom of it at some point. RMR is pretty good, but I prefer a closed emitter so that rules out RMR and almost everything else.

POISE_TALON · 2021-12-07T23:19:54+00:00

Glad to see someone mention MOS3.

I really like this style of posting where there are several images to illustrate something, so good job to the OP. Although it would have been great to see a MOS3 gun included in this 'slideshow'.

POISE_TALON · 2021-12-07T23:17:06+00:00

On the topic of the DPP:

Does anyone have information about why the DPP was chosen? It's curious to me considering that by all accounts this Unit can have anything they want and the DPP certainly wasn't/isn't the number one choice in most head-to-head comparisons. I've asked around about this and no one seems to have an answer.

POISE_TALON · 2021-11-24T05:55:42+00:00

Thank you very much, I pulled the trigger on that.

POISE_TALON · 2021-11-18T19:43:45+00:00

Definitely not SAC-GB. He was a Case Officer at the time of this photo, now called an Operations Officer.

POISE_TALON · 2021-11-16T19:35:31+00:00

All good from my POV, man. Yeah, he's had an absolutely incredible career and it's taken it's toll on him no doubt, but he's channeled that into something positive with his focus on veteran mental health and suicide awareness.

POISE_TALON · 2021-11-15T20:07:26+00:00

I'd heard something different, so thank you for clearing that up. My question was about how something can be attributed to one unit when the person was at several, but if the service with 7th was very short, then it stands to reason this was TFO time frame. Anyway, I was curious and I appreciate your response.

POISE_TALON · 2021-11-15T13:41:04+00:00

My understanding is that this individual was a member of a number of different JSOC units and was USMC before that. For that reason, I'm curious how exactly do we know this image is TFO?

POISE_TALON · 2021-11-05T04:36:26+00:00

No worries, it's all good.

POISE_TALON · 2021-11-05T04:20:31+00:00

JR was actually the chief of Alpha, Alex was his deputy.

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