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When Bargewell retired in 2006, he was the most decorated soldier on active duty. Eldon Bargewell knew he would serve in the military from a very young age. With Vietnam War heating up, he enlisted in the Army in 1967 and went straight to Special Forces selection. Once he received his Green Beret, he deployed to Southeast Asia. There, he further volunteered for the elite Military Assistance Command Vietnam-Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG). SOG was a covert unit that conducted cross-border operations in Cambodia, Laos, and North Vietnam. It was composed of Green Berets, Navy SEALs, Re...

During the Vietnam War, the US created a highly classified unit that still influences modern special operations Stavros Atlamazoglou US Air Force Bell UH-1P helicopters from the 20th Special Operations Squadron fly into Cambodia, around 1970. As the US waged a conventional war in South Vietnam, a group of special operators carried out a secret war inside and outside the country. The Military Assistance Command Vietnam-Studies and Observations Group, as their unit was known, was disbanded after the war, but it had a lasting influence on modern US special operations for...

AP Photo/Matias Recart In the early morning hours of December 20, 1989, Delta Force operators descended on a Panamanian prison holding CIA operative Kurt Muse. The operation, conducted at the outset of the US invasion of Panama, brought Muse home safely, becoming Delta Force's first successful hostage-rescue mission. On the night of December 20, 1989, the US invaded Panama to overthrow dictator Manuel Noriega. This small-scale conflict was full of special operations — some of them successful, others not — involving Rangers, Navy SEALs, and Green Berets. But i...