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To one and all, please send far and wide. The Unconventional Warrior, by LTC �Dangerous� Dan Marvin Part One: Origin and Missions August 2, 2002 This is the 50th Anniversary Year of the US Army's Special Forces (SF) and a reason to celebrate the awesome capability of this organization's unconventional warriors. It is also the time to recognize the absolute need, when such an organization exists, to establish systematic and certain safeguards to defend against the possible development of an uncontrollable covert activity by a power bent commander given unbridled authority over men. material and events. Retired former OSS operative and later Green Beret Colonel Aaron Bank, founder of the US Army's Special Form, perhaps best known as the Green Berets, wrote the book, From OSS to Green Berets, published In December 1987 by Pocket Books. In it he writes of the Joint Chiefs of Staff decision to activate the Psychological Warfare Center and a Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg on 1 May 1952. Colonel Bank would be the Psy War Center Activator and the new Group Commander. In mid-June of that same year Colonel Banks relates, "I received my orders to assume command of the 10th Special Forces Group (Abn.).the first such unit ever to be allotted to the regular Army. On 19 June 1952, 1 activated the unit and assumed command." >From the beginning, Colonel Banks was, in his own words, "determined to obtain a level of proficiency equal to or better than the unit's OSS predecessors and at least on par with the CIA covert operatives. Training in the field of clandestine operations would not be neglected in favor of the more exciting field of overt guerrilla warfare. The whole gamut of unconventional warfare operations would be covered thoroughly." Cross-training was a continuing function of instruction, recognizing the need for each man to be able to function well in every facet of unconventional warfare with exception of the complex and demanding fields of communications and medical aid. Specialized training in those areas was a continuing and rigorous activity due to the technical complexity of these fields. Special needs of a force operating in an environment that calls for an SF NCO to perform in a capacity normally performed by a code an electronics specialist. or in the case of the medical aid man � a physician. "The reason for my insistence in cross-training," Colonel Banks explained, "was that in conducting operations a team would often be split among guerrilla groups, where a SF trooper would be responsible for all the functions conducted by the team � organizing, instructing, equipping and leading when necessary. He would be on his own with very infrequent supervision.� Understanding from his own combat experience as an OSS irregular led him to also insist that an SF trooper be functionally capable in the areas of supply, equipment recording, storage and maintenance operations. I would learn that the introduction of Civil Affairs, Military Government and Psychological Warfare training in the SF Officers! Course gave Special Forces the capability to operate independent of higher level command or control while performing covert missions; for the CIA and overt unconventional operations as determined optimum by the ranking member on the ground when all known situations were taken into consideration. Such was the case in An Phu where my independent command encompassed Special Forces operations, district government, border control, CIA missions and provision of security for the 64,000 South Vietnamese Hoa Hao people who lived in An Phu. Of utmost significance were the first-ever TOP SECRET mission to assassinate a head of State and permission to take the war into the enemy's Cambodian Sanctuaries with the specific knowledge that we would have no higher level air, ground medical evacuation or artillery support when inside Cambodia. Next week � Part Two: Secret Orders & Compartmentilization. The way of the men who consider the impossible as something that "just takes a little longer." One Soldier�s Journey into Covert Warfare By Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Marvin (US Army Special Forces, Retired) The terrorist�s attacks of September 11th and the ongoing war against international terrorism are fresh in our minds. It is time to capture your interest in the US Army�s elite Green Berets, as there is a heightened awareness among our citizens that the secret nature of Special Operation Forces in combating terrorists without a formal declaration of war too often results in illegal activity, use of excessive force and unwarranted civilian casualties. Simply stated, an unbridled military command structure is in and of itself fertile ground for the fomenting of the outright abuse of power by its tendency to act without regard to the International Laws of Land Warfare. This nonfiction book, Expendable Elite - One Soldier�s Journey into Covert Warfare, is the truth, based on Daniel Marvin�s personal experience as a Special Forces officer in the mid-sixties, including his command of an independent warfare operation in South Vietnam. What this book does for the first time is to acquaint you with the unique nature of Special Operation Forces and how covert operations are developed and often masked to permit, even sponsor assassinations, outright purposeful killing of innocents, illegal use of force and resort to bizarre methods in combat operations. It reveals the one fear that these elite warriors share with no other military person: not fear of the enemy they have been trained to face in battle, but fear of the wrath of our government should they no longer be needed and find themselves irretrievably classified as expendable.� The tremendous courage of the South Vietnamese people with whom Dan served and among whom he lived and the extreme importance of civic action and psychological operations, subjects heretofore for the most part ignored by others, are discussed in vivid detail. A centerpiece of this book is the CIA mission to assassinate Cambodian Crown Prince Nordum Sihanouck, this author�s unilateral aborting of that mission, and the drama surrounding the dispatch by the CIA of an RVN Regiment to attack and destroy my camp and kill every person in it as retribution for my having gone against the CIA. The dramatic rescue by ARVN Lieutenant General Dang of eight American Green Berets and hundreds of South Vietnamese will capture your curiosity and whet your appetite for the book in the Special, Operations series. You can reserve a copy by writing Trine Day at PO Box 577, Walterville, Oregon 97489, calling 1-800.556.2012 or at www.TrineDay.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. 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