Blue Light (unit)
Blue Light was a United States Army counter-terrorist subunit of the 5th Special Forces Group that existed in the late 1970s. It was founded in 1977 to fill the capabilities gap in counter-terrorism operations while Delta Force became operational. It was the U.S. Army's first dedicated, permanent, counter-terrorism unit, and the predecessor to the Critical Threat Advisory Companies (CTAC) now found in every Special Forces Group. Drawn almost exclusively from Special Forces veterans of the Vietnam war, its mission set focusing on tubular assaults and hostage rescues ultimately overlapped with that of Delta Force and the unit was disbanded in 1978 when Delta Force became operational, with a small number of former Blue Light members successfully being selected for Delta. Due to the unit's interim status and short tenure, it was never deployed for an actual hostage rescue.
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