Their real days of glory ... really only started after 9/11," Colonel Walter Patrick Lang, who spent much of his career in covert operations, told Scahill. "They didn't do a lot of fighting before that."
Known within the covert ops community as ninjas or "snake eaters," JSOC operators train to track a target, fix his position, and then finish him off without being detected.
"They're the ace in the hole,"
General Hugh Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under
President Clinton, told Scahill. "If you need someone that can sky dive
from thirty miles away, go down the chimney of a castle, and blow it up
from the inside — those are the guys you want to call on."
Snake-eaters vs. Jihadis! Who are they killing in a castle? Man, global killing teams culled from the best soldiers we have along with 1000s of targeted drone assassinations? America is such a bad-ass nowadays.
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