Special Forces inducts Delta Pressure icon at Fort Bragg

FORT BRAGG — A Special Forces chief whose 31-year Army profession included the rescue of an American hostage and commanding Delta Forces in fight was honored throughout a ceremony Tuesday at Fort Bragg.  

Retired Maj. Gen. Gary Harrell commissioned into the Army in December 1973, first serving underneath the 82nd Airborne Division, and retired as deputy commander of the U.S. Army Particular Operations Command in July 2008.  

Greater than 100 colleagues, troopers, family and friends and supporters joined Harrell, as he was inducted as a Distinguished Member of the Special Forces Regiment throughout a ceremony hosted by the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Particular Warfare Middle and Faculty.  

The regiment serves as a hyperlink between Special Forces troopers at the moment serving and people who have separated or retired and function position fashions for unit morale, cohesion and esprit de corps.  

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