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Before the Persian Gulf War there was little use for special operations forces. They looked great in the movies, but in a real war, they had no part to play As Desert Shield turned to Desert Storm, however, necessity changed this view. And by war's end 9,400 special-ops personnel had been deployed to the Gulf - members of the Army's Rangers, Green Berets, and Delta Force; Navy sea-airland teams (SEALs); and Air Force special-ops squadrons, as well as a handful of men from Britain's Special show more Air Service (SAS) and Special Boat Squadron (SBS). They did so by performing valuable, dangerous, and highly secret missions across the breadth of Iraq and occupied Kuwait. To open the war, U.S. Air Force special operations choppers led a team of Army Apache attack helicopters on a successful mission to destroy crucial Iraqi early-warning radar sites. Earlier, a team of Delta Force and SAS troopers captured a complete SA-8 surface-to-air missile system and helicoptered it to Saudi Arabia for analysis before coalition pilots took to the sky. show lessTags
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