Task Force Delta is a generic military, or quasi-military (police, firefighters, etc), designation for a specific

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— a small temporary unit or detachment configured for a specific purpose or task. (A unit called Task Force Delta is often a part of a sequence of Task Forces Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, etc.) Task Force Delta may refer to: *A task force consisting of four infantry battalions of U.S. Marines and part of

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and Operation Texas in Vietnam in 1966 *An element of the

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operating from the Royal Thai Air Base Nam Phong in Thailand in 1972-1973 * Task Force Delta (psychic adepts), an ''ad hoc'' working group of 300 U.S. Army

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adepts organized by Col.

Frank Burns Frank Burns may refer to: * Frank Burns (Pennsylvania politician) (born 1975), Pennsylvania politician * Frank Burns (Delaware politician), Delaware state representative * Frank L. Burns (1939–2003), director of the US Army's Delta Force leadersh ...

*A unit of the Filipino

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*Task Force Delta, a fictional covert U.S. government agency in the ''Chase'' comic book series published by DC Comics

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