"Some of the special-forces troops in iraq had seen it all before—12 years ago, to be exact. Long before the war with Iraq began, officials at the U.S. Special Operations Command in Tampa, Fla., combed service records for names of commandos who had seen action in 1991's Operation Provide Comfort, which gave food and shelter to Kurdish refugees after Saddam crushed their rebellion. The goal: to lure these American soldiers out of private life and back into action. "We wanted them for the places they'd been and the people they knew," said a top officer. Army rules prohibit the service from relying on more than 100 retired commandos at any time; by mid-March, a top Army official told TIME, 88 had been tapped to return to the region."
Whether active duty, or retired, these guys are amazing...
Thanks for the post!
Depends on who you ask. As the article notes, alot of the top brass doesn't care for them to much and it was General Shwartzkoph (I know its miss-spelled) who mocking kept referring to the special ops as "snake eaters". He didn't mean it as a compliment.