Word: delta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Delta Force didn't get the opportunity to pump a few thousand rounds into the dirty terrorists and America lost a golden opportunity to restore its collective sense of honor after the Shiites kicked sand in our faces...
Many of the same people who called for the Delta Force have backed off calling for massive retaliation on the tiny military sword. The images of napalm engulfing Beirut are less a appealing than those of 50 stone-faced Rangers blasting handful of religious fanatics...
...Delta Force is a collection of modern heroes, like the lonely range riders who galloped from town to town to protect the innocent and punish the guilty. For the Delta Force, the modernday righteous sheriff, the hang-em-high brand of frontier justice means criminals can't escape through the maze of over-bureaucratized courts or tangled international relations. Their kind of justice also means that weeping families get a taste of revenge...
Before the Delta Force, the Marine Corps was the closest thing America ever had to its own band of crack heroes, and a mystique developed about the leatherneck's superior qualities. Little boys never just played soldiers, they played marines...
With the creation of Delta Force, we can concentrate our hero worship on a much smaller--and more elite--band of tough guys. Our fascination with the unit has not been in the least tempered by its epic failure in its only real test, the disastrous attempt to rescue the hostages from Iran...