Sullivan's challenge now is to make sure that the agency's reputation of excellence as an elite force continues, Cummings said.
But the experiences of one eight-man team illustrated how the courage and reputation of the elite force could not guarantee success.
As it turned out the elite force's expertise was still needed and it was resurrected just a year later in 1947.
Given the rapid acceleration of technological development, any system that relies on a small, elite force of highly trained government agents may be doomed to failure.
James Vaught, a retired lieutenant general who helped create the Army's elite Delta Force, disapproves of the SEALs' participation.
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Members of the military's elite counterterrorist Delta Force unit also were involved, they said.
The desire to break through to the beauty Elite can even force women into unsavory situations.
India signed the agreement in February 2010 to purchase a dozen three-engine AW-101 helicopters from the Italian company for an elite squadron of the Indian Air Force which ferries around the president, the prime minister and other VIPs.
Britain meanwhile pinned great hope on a top-level interdiction force, trained by its elite Special Air Service.
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Campbell was head of a health care task force of the Business Roundtable, an elite group of corporate leaders that sponsored Leapfrog.
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The US accuses Mr Arbabsiar, a US citizen with an Iranian passport, of working with the Quds Force, part of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.
He worried the troops would reject him because he had not served in any of its elite units such as the Army's Delta Force or the Navy's SEAL Team 6.
Djokovic is Djokovic, maybe not the paranormal force he was a season ago but still elite-elite, capable of beating anyone.
The new code of conduct will come into force from 1 July when players will sign their new elite rugby contracts.
The Air Force Weapons School provides advanced training for a handful of elite officers each year in traditional skills, like teaching aerial combat, reconnaissance and bombing, and also for the growing ranks of drone pilots.
Tax competition is the only force working on the side of taxpayers, which explains the organized campaign by global elite to defeat it.
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