Thursday, 22 July 2021, 11:22 am
BANGKOK, Thailand When the U.S. invasion of
Afghanistan secured Bagram Air Base in January 2002, a
Special Operations officer said he motivated newly arrived
82nd Airborne Division troops with a human skull, because
the young Americans became enthusiastic when they saw
death s head. I m a skull worshipper, Special
Operations Command Sergeant-Major Raymond V. Cordell said in
an interview at the time in Bagram Air Base, 42 miles (67
kilometers) north of Kabul.
A human skull, given to
him by fellow soldiers, was mounted in his office at MacDill
Air Force Base s Special Operations Command headquarters in
Florida, he said.