Word: specializer
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...Praised (and inadvertently outed as a commander) by President George W. Bush in June 2006 after his special-ops team located and killed Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. McChrystal reportedly accompanied his men to the bombed-out hideaway in Baquba where al-Zarqawi lay to help identify the body...
...Graduated from West Point in 1976 and began training at the Special Forces School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, two years later...
...From 2003 to 2008, led the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which oversees the military's most sensitive forces, including the Army's Delta Force. McChrystal's leadership is credited with the December 2003 capture of Saddam Hussein...
...commander of special-operations forces in Iraq, he sent troops returning to the theater back to their original neighborhoods - a system he has suggested for general infantry soldiers in Afghanistan as head of a recent task-force review...
...Sometimes you have a situation where you have two very good commanders, but in a critical combat situation one has an edge, and in this case Gen. McChrystal has that edge." - Anthony Cordesman, of the Washington D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, on McChrystal's experience in special...