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Like all the SOG's other paramilitary operatives, John had spent years in the U.S. military before joining the CIA; five years is the minimum requirement. CIA recruiters regularly prowl clubs like those at Fort Bragg, N.C., where the Army's Special Operations Command has its headquarters, looking for Green Berets interested in even more unconventional work and higher pay (a starting SOG officer can earn more than $50,000 a year; a sergeant in the Green Berets begins at about $41,000). Special-forces soldiers, Navy seals and Air Force commandos are routinely dispatched to the agency...
...Camp Peary, new SOG recruits also hone their paramilitary skills, like sharpshooting with various kinds of weapons, setting up landing zones in remote areas for agency aircraft and attacking enemy sites with a small force. Some are sent to Delta Force's secret compound at Fort Bragg to learn highly specialized counterterrorism techniques, such as how to rescue a fellow agent held hostage...
...tightly wound, 13-year veteran of the Army who served in Panama and the Gulf War before a knee injury ended his career. More than 80% of AIT's 160 employees also have military backgrounds, including a number who joined right after a stint at nearby Fort Bragg. Seven of the eight senior executives have had top-secret security clearances, and the chief of security used to work on Air Force...
...wasn't just Pentagon nerves that got in the way of a more aggressive counterterrorism policy. So did politics. After the U.S.S. Cole was bombed, the secretive Joint Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, N.C., drew up plans to have Delta Force members swoop into Afghanistan and grab bin Laden. But the warriors were never given the go-ahead; the Clinton Administration did not order an American retaliation for the attack. "We didn't do diddly," gripes a counterterrorism official. "We didn't even blow up a baby-milk factory." In fact, despite strong suspicion that bin Laden was behind...
...been 32 years since Fort Bragg's most infamous murders, the 1970 killings of the wife and daughters of Captain Jeffrey MacDonald, chronicled in the best seller Fatal Vision. Since then, the armed forces have addressed domestic violence with more counseling and support for families, but some say the Pentagon has not done enough. Confidentiality isn't guaranteed for victims who come forward, according to Tucker, and only about 30% of Army bases employ a person trained and identified as a victims' advocate. Perhaps, then, we should look closer to home than Afghanistan for the reasons four women are dead...