Amid the din of gunfire, an elite special operations squad entered the hospital, grasping M-16 assault rifles.
Shortly after 10 15 a.m., national police units, including a special operations squad called the Cobras, began to arrive at the prison.
Local youths, known as the civilian JTF – after the military's special operations squad called the Joint Task Force – have started policing areas where Boko Haram members are known to operate.
A turning point in the P.C.C.'s profile seemed to come in May, when three police officers with Rota, a feared elite special operations squad within São Paulo's state police force, were arrested after a witness described their torture of a suspected P.C.C. operative.
Instead of Bush's endless occupations with 170,000 troops in Iraq and 101,000 in Afghanistan, Obama's military has adopted a more mobile Middle Eastern footprint of advisers, air strikes, drones, and special operations squads.
Rubiel Rodriguez is grateful to the medic in his police special operations team, called the Jungla, or Jungle Squad.
When a U.S. special operations forces team is poised to raid a suspected insurgent compound, when a Marine squad in Afghanistan is alerted to an ambush, when a gathering of men identified as terrorists disappears in the bloom of an explosion in Pakistan, these analysts likely played a key role.
Eighteen years later, in September 2001, Firefighter McGinn was Lieutenant McGinn of Squad 18, a special operations command based in Greenwich Village, a father of two, cub scout leader and the only male member of the school leadership team at his children's school in Riverdale in the Bronx.
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — The sun had just begun to rise here one morning in September as André Peres de Carvalho, an officer in a special-operations police squad, prepared to leave his home.
A retired general, Wayne Downing, the former head of special operations forces, affirmed that US-led killing squads started operating immediately after the March 2003 invasion.
He asked for additional personnel or equipment or both for the bureau of special operations, the emergency service unit, the K-9 unit, the bomb squad, the special investigations squad, the electronics squad, the motorcycle platoon and Nassau's contingent on the F.B.I.'s antiterrorism task force.
