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the training of the U.s. Army's 1/ Special
Forces Operational Detachment-the Delta Force.
Rodgers remained there until the Persian Gulf
War, where he commanded a mechanized brigade with such
Pattonesque fervor that he was well on his way
to Baghdad while his backup was still in Southern
Iraq. His zeal earned him a promotion-and a desk
job at Op-Center.
August had flown eighty-seven F-4 spy
missions over North Vietnam during a two-year
period before being shot down near Hue. He spent a
year as a prisoner of war before escaping and making his
way to the south. After recovering in Germany from
exhaustion and exposure, August returned
to Vietnam. He organized a spy network
to search for other U.s. POW'S and then
remained undercover for a year after the United States
withdrawal. At the request of the Pentagon,
August spent the next three years in the
Philippines helping President Ferdinand
Marcos battle Moro secessionists. He
disliked Marcos and his repressionist policies, but
the U.s. government supported him and so August
stayed. Looking for a little desk-bound downtime after the
fall of the Marcos regime, August went to work as
an Air Force liaison with NASA, helping
to organize security for spy satellite
missions, after which he joined the SOC as a
specialist in counter-terrorist activities. When
Striker commander X. Colonel W. Charles
Squires was killed on a mission in Russia,
Rodgers immediately contacted Colonel August and
offered him the commission.
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August accepted, and the two easily resumed their
close friendship.
The two men had come to Ma Ma Buddha after spending
the morning discussing a proposed new International
Strike Force Division for Op-Center. The idea
for the group had been conceived by Rodgers and Paul
Hood. Unlike the elite, covert
Striker, the ISFD unit would be a small
black-ops unit comprised of U.s. commanders and
foreign operatives. Personnel such as Falah
Shibli of the Sayeret Ha'Druzim, Israel's
Druze' Reconnaissance unit, who had helped
Striker rescue the Regional OpCenter and its
crew in the Bekaa Valley. The ISFD would be
designed to undertake covert missions in potential
international trouble spots. General Rodgers had