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Navy SEALs Americas Secret Warriors - Season 2

Thousands of proud veterans of Operation Desert Storm will march in victory parades like the one last Saturday in Washington and this week in New York. But there will be no celebrations for the special-operations forces. The secret warriors prefer it that way. They don't want to be known as Rambos. They like to think of themselves as "quiet professionals." Though numbering only 9,400 out of the allies' half-million-odd men and women in the gulf, "these were the people who put the brains behind the brawn in Desert Storm," says Andy Messing, a former Green Beret major who directs the National Defense Council Foundation. The part played by special-operations forces in the gulf war is virtually unknown to the public. Fragmentary reports, of Green Berets stalking in the desert, of an Air Force commando AC-130 gunship downed during the battle for Khafji, appeared in the press during the war. But to determine the true role of special forces in the gulf, NEWSWEEK interviewed scores of commandos, of all ranks, who had quietly returned to their bases around the United States. What became clear is that special forces played a critical role in securing a victory that was swift, sure and relatively cost-free to the allies.