Do you think Delta force Killed Osama Bin Laden and not seal team 6?

Unfortunately, as much as I don't want to belive it - DEVGRU probably did undertake the hit even though they rightfully should not have been the ones. Since 9/11, Delta Force has led the way for the GWOT around the world. DEVGRU didn't even hit the ground in Afghanistan until way after Delta.

Delta led the way for Al Qaeda's decimation in Afghanistan and Pakistan until Iraq kicked off, with DEVGRU as a support element. Delta then moved to the new war in Iraq to destroy Saddam and his Baath party and any AQ movements and left DEVGRU in charge of the very very slow OPTEMPO of Afghanistan. Iraq died out and Delta returned their rotations to Iraq just as most SOF forces did. Delta Force have led the way and have given the most blood and tears to get the job done. So the final mission to kill Osama bin Laden was given to DEVGRU? That is a slap in Delta's face.

And do you know why? It's because the current JSOC commander.. Admiral McRaven is a former DEVGRU guy. And after DEVGRU accidentally killed that British aid worker in Afghanistan back in October, he knows his unit needs positive publicity. So he made the decision to put Delta on the sidelines of the most important mission since 9/11.

He is ******* lucky that they succeeded, because if they didn't and bin Laden slipt away - he would be relieved of his command and questioned as to why Delta was not sent in. And if Delta was sent in and bin Laden escaped, McRaven would still have a job afterwards. I love DEVGRU and they are harder men then I will ever be. But this one didn't belong to them and every single shooter on those birds absolutely knew it.

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3rd Ranger Bn

Black Hawk down is not fact!!! Every service aside from the coast guard was involved in that battle. Seals were acting as Snipers and they got no mention!!! There was also a break down in communication that took soldiers off the ground. There could have been "Delta" soldiers" in the mix. I sure as hell know there was a QRF team sitting in wait In case something went bad. The Seals got the glory and they deserve it. If Delta was there it doesn't matter.

Delta Force Osama Bin Laden

I've wondered why Seals got bin instead of Delta Force. I think it has to do w the organization of the Seals, working as one unit for an extended time period. Accounts claim 24 to 50 Seals. Delta does similar work, but not 50 Delta in one place.

Remember in Black Hawk Down the bulk of the soldiers were Rangers w a few Delta to handle a similar mission of securing a house and taking out bad guys in the house The Seal team that took out this bad guy was large and had been together training for several years.

Yes, Delta Force takes care of high profile targets. They're a counterterrorism unit. But, so is DEVGRU. They're pretty much equal with each other. Howard Wasdin, a former Navy SEAL, suggested in his book that Delta Force and DEVGRU are very similar so their is competition between the two SMUs. Is it also true that Delta Force has helped hunt down many terrorist leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Yes, Delta Force has helped hunt down many terrorist leader in Afghanistan. Iraq as well, but I don't know about Pakistan. I wouldn't be surprised. Didn't DEVGRU help? It's likely. I believe they worked together in a Task Force, with other special operations units, in Iraq. Is there a reason DEVGRU was chosen? Of course... As you mentioned, the JSOC commander at the time was a Navy SEAL, so I'm sure that played a part. Additionally, I read somewhere that DEVGRU has been operating heavily along the Afghan-Pakistani border. So, I they're familiar with the area and bin Laden's compound wasn't far away from the border.

yes i believe delta force had a play in the killing with SEAL team 6 (DEVGRU), they both work hand and hand..Seal Team 6 (ST6) is one of the United States' two secretive Tier One counter-terrorism and Special Mission Units (SMUs); the other such group is 1st SFOD-D (Delta Force). If u think about it and have watched the news, its the first time we heard about double tape and thats what these Special Forces are trained in. Also they only report and take commands from the president directly and its the first time we have also seen in the news of photographs the President listening and watching the mission go down as it was in play min. by min. So yes it was probably Delta and DEVGRU

First of all, I'm nearly certain that the Navy’s DevGru(Development Group) and the Army's Delta Force operate under secret code names. I think it is safe to assume that the Army and Navy units in JSOC train together so much they might as well be the same team. When you look at the candidate pools for selection-the Army Special Forces and 75th Rangers for Delta and the SEAL teams for DevGru, it is fairly safe to say that the Delta team is much bigger than the DevGru team. Interoperability and mission flexibility are major points of emphasis in this community. After all, Delta's original mission was to rescue hostages being held on airliners and DevGru's(SEAL team 6) original mission was to rescue hostages being held on boats and ships. The skills that these operators learned to conduct those primary operations and other counter-terrorism operations (mainly CQB) made them extremely talented at nearly every type of modern combat. It is probably very feasible that many missions are conducted with mixed teams. For example, if a Delta team was going to go on a mission and needed an extra operator that spoke Pashtun, they might pull a guy from DevGru. These guys are excellent communicators. They will sit down and pick teams based on individual skills and attributes that might be needed during specific missions.

As far as the Osama bin Laden mission, we wont know until the Dalton Fury of this mission decides to write a novel, making his co-workers extremely angry at him. The concept of the US government deceiving the media in saying it was a SEAL team instead of a Delta team is fairly plausible. From a public relations standpoint, there would have to be two DevGru operators involved in order for him to be telling the truth (he said SEALs). Operational security aside, if they were to say that “Delta Force” preformed the assault, every reporter in the nation would flock to Fayetteville, NC (Fort Bragg) to sniff out the secret “Delta compound” and find the guy who shot bin Laden. Press is not good for a unit like Delta Force. After the British SAS resolved the 1980 Iranian Embassy hostage standoff in London (NOT the US embassy incident in Tehran), hundreds of idiots signed up for SAS selection because they wanted to be James Bond. I imagine that the Osama bin Laden mission will continue to fuel the false perception that the regular SEALs(not DevGru) are the best unit in the US military. The next few BUDs classes will be packed for the first hour.

Lets remember that these units and other units like them overseas do us a great service even during peacetime. The concept of taking fifty hostages and requesting five million dollars and an airliner is ridiculous for any levelheaded person because of the work of Delta Force and DevGru. It might be Delta, DevGru, or FBI HRT-but someone will double-tap you in the head. The same goes for the Osama bin Laden assault. The community is one big team and everyone wins no matter who scored the goal in overtime.

I was asking myself the very same question. All Special Forces Groups (Navy SEALs, Green Berets, etc) do cross-training especially in areas of Close Quarters Combat and Counter-terrorism, so SEALs are perfectly qualified to do the job. It might have been a question of time and deployment - it might have take too long to deploy Delta operators onto the scene because with such a target the trail might go cold, so they might have decided to strike while the irons hot.

I personally do think it was Delta and they're allowing someone else to take the credit.

"SEAL team 6" is NOT a Navy SEAL team, it got that name as a monicker in attempt to convince Russia that we had a boat load of "SEAL teams" runnin about. And to answer the Question, no, Delta Force (1st SFOD-D) was not in charge of this mission. it was DEVGRU...aka SEAL team 6. Both are Tier 1 military forces, the U.S. has three tier 1's, those two and the Air Force 24th Special Combat Squadron. Tier 1 are Black Ops, tier 2 are "gray ops." the tier 2 are the Rangers, SEALs, Green Beret, and Force Recon. Tier 3 are "white ops," the darker the "op. color" the more classified and more incredible the work is.

I think it was delta and obama is just saying seal team six to father disclose the operation to the public to get reelected. if delta did in fact conduct the operation (like im sure they did) they could hav just said one of our country's elite special forces unit took him out. which i have yet to hear a white house Official or pentagon official say seal team six that is just what the press has been saying. so the only thing that pisses me off is that they gave the exact unit's name that carried out the operation, that is why i completely believe it was delta not to mention the fact that delta is our country's 1st choice for counter-terrorism operations.