FILMING DELTA FORCE operatives presents two problems. First, we can’t show their faces, lest any of their nefarious counterparts ID someone with whom they might have a mortal grudge. Second, and it’s an obvious one: night-time sneak attacks, a Delta Force speciality, happen in the dark. But we’ll make it work.
My cameraman, Ed Ricker, and I are in a blacked-out Chevy Tahoe blazing through North Carolina cornfields towards the Range Complex, a 770-hectare training facility outside the gigantic Fort Bragg military complex. Our driver, name redacted, is an active Delta operative, one of the US Army elite specialising in counter-terrorism operations. Such as, say, hostage extraction. At night. Usually in countries that the US might not actually be at war with, and thus bereft of available military vehicles. Those…
