List of Delta Force members

The following is a list of Delta Force members;

List

• Eldon A. Bargewell: Commander of Delta Force 1996–1998. Served multiple tours of duty with MACVSOG during Vietnam War.
• Charles Beckwith: Founder and inaugural commander of Delta Force from 1977 to 1980.[1] Retired after the failure of Operation Eagle Claw.[2]
• Peter Blaber: Retired Lt. Col. who was an AFO team leader during Operation Anaconda. Author of the book, "The Mission, the Men, and Me."[3]
• Kenneth Bowra: Served with Delta Force from 1983 to 1988. Former Commanding Officer of Army 5th Special Forces Group from 1991 to 1993. Served with MACVSOG during Vietnam War in 1971–1972.
• William G. Boykin: Former commander of Delta Force from 1992 to 1994, including service in Somalia during the Battle of Mogadishu.
• Jonathan Dunbar: Joined the Army 2005, served with 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, then moved to 38th Cavalry Regiment (long range surveillance) in 2009, serving in both Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2013 he moved to Special Operations Command. He was with Delta when he was killed in action in 2018.[4]
• Earl Fillmore, Jr.: Sergeant First Class, who at 24, became one of the youngest soldiers to be selected into Delta Force. Killed in action (KIA) in Mogadishu, Somalia during the Battle of Mogadishu.[5]
• William F. Garrison: Retired Major General. Commander of Delta Force from 1985 to 1989. Commanding officer of Task Force Ranger during the Battle of Mogadishu.[6]
• Gary Gordon: Medal of Honor recipient. Killed in action, on 3 October 1993, during the Battle of Mogadishu.
• David L. Grange: Former Commanding Officer of 75th Ranger Regiment from 1991 to 1993. Served with Delta Force as Squadron Commander during Operation Urgent Fury in 1983. Deputy Commander of Delta Force from June 1990 to July 1991.
• Thomas Greer: Former Commanding Officer of A-Squadron. He was the senior commanding officer at the Battle of Tora Bora in 2001 and wrote the book Kill Bin Laden. He served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He died in 2016 from cancer.[7]
• Eric L. Haney: Wrote the book Inside Delta Force, upon which the television series The Unit is based.[8][9] He served in Operation Eagle Claw, Operation Urgent Fury and Operation Just Cause.
• Gary L. Harrell: Commanding Officer of Delta Force from 1998 to 2000. Served as a troop commander during invasion of Panama in 1989 and served as C Squadron Commander during the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia in October 1993.
• Austin S. Miller: Commanded Delta Force during the Iraq War and is the current commander of NATO's Resolute Support Mission and U.S. Forces - Afghanistan
• Thomas Payne: A Sergeant Major in Delta Force. When he was a Sergeant First Class, he involved in a hostage rescue on the 22 October 2015 at an ISIS prison in Kirkuk, Iraq, which about 70 Iraqi prisoners were rescued and Delta Force MSG Joshua Wheeler was killed in action. For his action, he was awarded Distinguished Service Cross, which was later upgraded to the Medal of Honor, and he will be awarded it on the 11 September 2020. Sergeant Major Payne would be the first living Delta Force Medal of Honor recipient, the third Delta Force Medal of Honor recipient after MSG Gary Gordon and SFC Randy Shughart who died in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, and the first Medal of Honor recipient of Operation Inherent Resolve.[10][11]
• Peter Schoomaker: Commanding Officer of Delta Force from 1989 to 1992 and later commander of JSOC, USASOC and SOCOM.[12]
• Randy Shughart: Medal of Honor recipient. Killed in action, on 3 October 1993, during the Battle of Mogadishu.[13]
• Christopher Speer: A U.S. Army combat medic in SFOD-D. Wounded in action, on 27 July 2002, in Afghanistan, during Operation Enduring Freedom. Later died at Ramstein Air Base, Germany on 6 August 2002, and received international attention after his killer and Canadian citizen Omar Khadr (who was 15 years old at the time of Speer's death) was imprisoned and allegedly tortured by the United States, violating Canadian child soldier amnesty laws.[14]
• Brad Thomas: Former Master Sergeant of Delta Force from 1999 to 2010, part of Task Force 121 during Operation Red Dawn. Thomas was also part of Task Force Ranger during the Battle of Mogadishu.[15]
• Raymond A. Thomas: General Raymond A. Thomas III served as Operations Officer, Troop Commander, Executive Officer and B Squadron Commander from 1992 to 1994 and 1996 to 1999. He was also the commander of Joint Special Operations Command from 2014 to 2016 and United States Special Operations Command from 2016 to 2019.
• Mike R. Vining: Former Sergeant Major in Delta Force, serving in the unit from its inception in 1978 to 1999. Part of the inaugural class of the Operator Training Course.[16]
• Joshua Wheeler: (November 22, 1975 – October 22, 2015) was a Master Sergeant in Delta Force, and Silver Star recipient (posthumously) who was the first American service member killed in action as a result of enemy fire while fighting ISIS militants. He was also the first American to be killed in action in Iraq since November 2011.[17][18]

See also

• List of Navy SEALs

References

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