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2020-11-13 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Stavros Atlamazoglou - 3 legendary leaders who made America's special-operations units into the elite forces they are today

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#2 Major General Robert T. Frederick -- commander of the First Special Services Force in WWII. Despite rocky starts, the unit was trained in parachuting, skiing, amphibious landings, and received extra training in hand-to-hand combat. The US Army itself recognized the unit's contributions to the concept of special operations forces by adopting a green beret for future special forces units, based on the FSSF's red berets -- themselves inspired by the Canadian portion of the unit's issued headgear.

Geoffrey Pyke -- the stereotypical British mad genius who inspired the formation of the FSSF with his plan to drop a small unit into Norway to destroy their heavy water and power generation facilities. There was, eventually, a unit of saboteurs sent to Norway, but without the "snow machines" he wanted them to have, and in smaller numbers. Also known for being the mind behind Project Habbakuk, a giant aircraft carrier made of "Pykrete" -- ice embedded with wood fiber.

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