Editing Delta Force (section)

=== Recruitment ===
Since the 1990s, the Army has posted recruitment notices for the 1st SFOD-D.<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 January 2003 |title=SFOD-D seeking new members |pages=6 |work=Mountaineer |location=Fort Carson, CO |url=http://www.carson.army.mil/pao/MountaineerArchive/2003%20Archive/01-16-03.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040117090928/http://www.carson.army.mil/pao/MountaineerArchive/2003%20Archive/01-16-03.pdf |archive-date=17 January 2004}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=10 February 2011 |title=1st SFOD-Delta Recruiting |work=Fort Campbell Courier |location=Fort Campbell, Kentucky |url=https://fortcampbell-courier.com/news/news_briefs/article_ce036aa4-3558-11e0-811c-001cc4c002e0.html |access-date=3 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220720035731/https://fortcampbell-courier.com/news/news_briefs/article_ce036aa4-3558-11e0-811c-001cc4c002e0.html |archive-date=20 July 2022}}</ref> The Army, however, has never released an official fact sheet for the unit. The recruitment notices in Fort Bragg's newspaper, ''Paraglide'', refer to Delta Force by name, and label it "...the U.S. Army's special operations unit organized for the conduct of missions requiring rapid response with surgical application of a wide variety of unique special operations skills...".<ref>{{cite web|title=Fort Bragg's newspaper Paraglide, recruitment notice for Delta Force |url=http://us2.newsmemory.com/ee/paraglide/default.php |access-date=17 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611002659/http://us2.newsmemory.com/ee/paraglide/default.php |archive-date=11 June 2009 }}</ref> The notice states that applicants must be in the grade of [[U.S. uniformed services pay grades#Enlisted pay grades|E-4 through E-8]], have at least two and a half years of service remaining in their enlistment, be 22 years or older, and have an [[Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery]] GT score of 110 or higher to attend a briefing to be considered for admission. Candidates must be airborne qualified or volunteer for airborne training. Officer candidates need to be O-3 or O-4. All candidates must be eligible for a security clearance level of "[[United States security clearance#Secret|secret]]" and have not been convicted by [[court-martial]] or have disciplinary action noted in their official military personnel file under the provisions of Article 15 of the [[Uniform Code of Military Justice]].

On 29 June 2006 during a session of the [[United States House Committee on Armed Services|Committee on Armed Services]], General [[Wayne Downing]] testified before the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] that "[t]he Delta Force is probably 70 percent Rangers who have come out of either a Ranger [to] [[Army Special Forces|Special Forces]] track or directly from [the] [[75th Ranger Regiment|Ranger Regiment]] to Delta".<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 June 2006 |title=Assessing U.S. Special Operations Command's Missions and Roles |url=https://fas.org/irp/congress/2006_hr/soc.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220607190405/https://irp.fas.org/congress/2006_hr/soc.pdf |archive-date=7 June 2022 |access-date=11 August 2012 |website=[[Federation of American Scientists]] |publisher=[[United States House Committee on Armed Services|House Armed Services Committee]] |page=22}}</ref>