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Chinese Navy Special Forces, or “Jiaolong Commando,” repel onto a ship during an exercise. (CGTN/Twitter) Since the early 2000s, the PLA has undergone a drastic modernization and professionalization process, transitioning from a mainly conscript force to a smaller, mostly volunteer military, though conscription remains as a policy. The new force’s main aim is to fight short wars against regional adversaries while having a technological advantage. Chinese special-operations units, and th...

Operation only. all day theyve been telling us possibly eight women workers were still missing in this factory, shepard. it appears that we are moving towards the point when they may well announce that they have decided there are no more survivors. theyve gone down to the basement here, they have had the rescue dogs sniffing there. but everybody will tell wednesday you get to the 72-hour mark here, its very, very unlikely that they will find more survivors. and the families are bracing themselve...

Ships before they are brought back to the united states for federal prosecution. we do know that the us.s. -- a navy ship is in the med. not too far from libya. it has been there for several weeks in case the embassy had to be evacuated there due to unrest. there are warships nearby. we dont know if hes on one of them. the u.s. not saying what kind of forces captured other than military and law enforcement, but we do know that u.s. special operations forces, we are talking delta force, s.e.a.l. ...

have been doing any homework. queen victoria is the only monarch in the u.k. to be celebrating the diamond jubilee, 60 years with the crown and the other queen is queen elizabeth coming up marking 60 years of her reign and we will be in london for this. join us sunday, june 3rd, when it really begins here and join me and piers morgan and a number of others from cnn in london for this extravaganza sunday, june 3rd, beginning at 11 in the morning eastern time. now this. just in at cnn ...

Our ongoing look at the rebuilding of the world trade center site. tonight, unveiling sculpture, to those who served in the days after the september 11 attacks. specifically, special forces forces the first to ride if combat on horseback in more than 50 years. the 34 commandos known as the "killer elite" in first week of the war they lead the freedom fighters through the alps of afghanistan with a single mission, take down the taliban. >> green berets i worked with said it looked like something ...

Oga, an other government agency. and its more of a unique, elite group of our best military members that have been training for years to take on this exact type of mission. go in. and that their mandate is to take bin laden alive, if possible. however, that said, if he offers any kind of resistance, you take him out. does that sound right to you? >> yes. i mean, if we think about whats really happened after 9/11, jsoc is a perfect example. it really came into its own after 9/11 to bring special ...

>> yeah, i mean, thats a common -- thats a common practice in these types of missions where youre going on -- you know, its a kill or capture type of mission where youre going for a specific, high-value target with very clear and -- an idea of what has to happen. these guys do this stuff all the time. you know, its similar to what i did in my first deployment after 9/11. you know, right on the ground in afghanistan. this is just the types of operations that the navy s.e.a.l.s. and other special ...

>> yeah. absolutely. you know, it just -- i think what this shows is that despite all the technology available to us today, just -- it comes down to these highly trained special operations groups executing these types of missions up close and personal. you know, it just -- these guys train so hard and the operational schedules are so demanding. but it really proves what these guys can accomplish. >> you know, there are debates in iraq and afghanistan with u.s. troops, but this sort of things on ...

The ground, we have special operations groups, that worked on just this, and we have a number of regional, meaning within the state regions -- regions of the state, search and rescue who have been deployed. and, we have had no trouble with looting. weve had no trouble -- and except for digging people out and, in some places, the structure is so immense and houses are totally wiped away, obliterated, that some people did not survive being -- even though they got into a closet or whatever. it was ...

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