Editing Det One (section)

==Personnel==
The unit consisted of 81 Marines and 5 Navy [[Corpsman|Corpsmen]] divided among 4 sections:
*reconnaissance element (30 men)
*[[Marine Corps Intelligence]] element (29 men), containing a headquarters element and
:*a [[Radio Reconnaissance Team]] (RRT), (9 men)
:*a SIGINT support team (3 men)
:*a human intelligence (HUMINT) exploitation team (HET), (6 men)
:*an all-source fusion team (12 men)
*[[Fires (military)|fires]] element (7 men)
*headquarters element

The original Marines that formed the detachment were hand-picked from over 500 superior candidates. Despite common misconceptions, Det One was not a beefed-up [[United States Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance]] (FORECON) platoon. While the reconnaissance element was composed mostly of 1st Force Reconnaissance Company Marines, they made up only 24 of the 86 members of the detachment. The detachment, though lacking organic aviation, operated under the [[Marine air–ground task force]] (MAG-TAF) philosophy of leveraging integrated, complementary capabilities to be more effective than the sum of its parts.<ref name="Priddy">{{cite journal  | last = Priddy  | first = Maj. Wade  | title = Marine Detachment 1: Opening the door for a Marine force contribution to USSOCom  | journal=Marine Corps Gazette  | volume = 90|issue=6| pages = 58–59  | publisher=Marine Corps Association | year = 2006  }}</ref>

More than half of Det One's Recon Marines were trained [[United States Marine Corps Scout Sniper]] (Scout Sniper).<ref name=CM1>Martin, Chris, ''Modern American Snipers: From The Legend to The Reaper---on the Battlefield with Special Operations Snipers'', St. Martin's Press, 2014 {{ISBN|1250076455}} {{ISBN|978-1250067173}}</ref>