Special Forces A-Teams are not designed to fight large numbers of soldiers in the conventional sense of combat. They can fight large numbers of soldiers under unconventional warfare (UW) and under Foreign Internal Defense (FID) missions where host country soldiers are being trained by the A-Team(s). –
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But as you’ll read, they can hold their own when it comes down to it. But they are better designed to gather information for the fighting conventional units, and Strike Operations, Unconventional Warfare and Foreign Internal Defense.
During Desert Shield (August 1990), the precursor of the war Desert Storm, A-Teams and other elite units were deployed into Iraq’s backdoor to gather information. Another A-Team was caught by a superior Iraqi unit and the fight was on. This A-Team was outnumbered and outgunned.
Calling for extraction, they were told, no extraction till after dawn. With extraction hours away, the A-Team fought for their lives. Ammunition was running low after a few hours. A-Team members are known for their above average marksmanship skills and their very unconventional tactics so they conjured-up a tactic that would save all their lives.
They piled their valuable gear in one heap, primed it with demolitions, hiding the charges within their gear and did a 6 o’clock movement – evading away from the advancing Iraqi soldiers. The savvy A-Team knew the Iraqi soldiers, like all soldiers, would temporarily stop fighting and gather around their newly won war bounty, and get what they could. As the A-Team was hundreds of meters off in the dark distance, they eyed balled the gathering Iraqis around their equipment with their NODs (Night Optical Devices).
Most of the enemy were bunched-up grabbing their newly won war bounty. The trap was set and it was now time to pull the trigger. By remote detonation they blew the charges hidden in their gear killing most of the Iraqis instantly and those that survived were combat ineffective but still armed.
The A-Team did a “button hook” (turning around doing a 6 o’clock movement and came back towards their original location) maneuver and assaulted their old position and finished-off the remaining surviving Iraqis. As they did this, Blackhawk gunships showed up at the tail-end of this long firefight.
One of the Blackhawk pilots on this mission told me the story you just read. America’s Elite Fighters again fought with honor and bravery that was paid for by your hard-earned tax dollars.
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