Task Force Delta
Task Force Delta is a generic military, or quasi-military (police, firefighters, etc), designation for a specific task force — a small temporary unit or detachment configured for a specific purpose or task. (A unit called “Task Force Delta” is often a part of a sequence of Task Forces Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, etc.)
Notable examples of Task Forces Delta include:
- A task force consisting of four infantry battalions of U.S. Marines and part of Operation Hastings and Operation Texas (Vietnam) in Vietnam in 1966
- An element of the 3rd Battalion, 9th U.S. Marines operating at the Royal Thai Air Base Nam Phong in Thailand in 1972
- Name (briefly, in the late 1970s) of the 12th Armoured Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)
- An ad hoc working group of 300 U.S. Army psychic adepts that met quarterly at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, starting in 1983; organized by Col. Frank Burns
- A unit of the Filipino Bureau of Fire Protection
- Task Force Delta, a fictional covert U.S. government agency in the Chase comic book series published by DC Comics
See also
- Delta Force, US Special Forces
- Delta Force (disambiguation)
- Delta (disambiguation)
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