Commandos The Real Tip Of The Spear
Calland, a fresh-faced former Navy SEAL, ran the naval Special Forces unit that in 1987- 88 fought a covert war in the Persian Gulf. The Reagan administration wanted to stop Iranian Special Forces from disrupting oil shipping during the Iran-Iraq War. Calland’s men, secretly running high-speed launches from drilling barges, worked with helicopter-borne Army Special Forces to ambush the Iranians. The Army AH-6 “Little Bird” choppers, with ultraquiet rotor blades, zoomed in at 50 feet above the water under cover of night to track the Iranian attack boats....