Editing Delta Force (section)

=== Training ===
According to [[Eric Haney]], the unit's Operator Training Course is approximately six months long. While the course is constantly changing, the skills taught broadly include the following:

* [[Marksman]]ship:
** The trainees shoot without aiming at stationary targets at close range until they gain almost complete accuracy, then progress to moving targets.
** Once these shooting skills are perfected, trainees move to a [[Kill house|shoot house]] and clear rooms of "enemy" targets – first one only, then two at a time, then three, and finally four. When all trainees can demonstrate the sufficient skill required, "hostages" are added to the mix.
* Demolitions and [[Door breaching|Breaching]]:
** Trainees learn how to pick many different locks, including those on cars and safes.
** Advanced demolition and bomb-making using common materials.
* Combined skills (the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], [[Federal Aviation Administration|FAA]], and other agencies were used to advise on the training of this portion of OTC):
** The new Delta operators use demolition and marksmanship at the shoot house and other training facilities to train for hostage and counter-terrorist operations with assault and sniper troops working together. They practice terrorist or hostage situations in buildings, aircraft, and other settings.
** All trainees learn how to set sniper positions around a building containing hostages. They learn the proper ways to set up a [[Tactical Operations Center]] (TOC) and communicate in an organized manner. Although Delta has specialized sniper troops, all members go through this training.
** The students then go back to the shoot house and the "hostages" are replaced with other students and Delta Force members. Live ammunition is known to have been used in these exercises, to test the students, and build trust between one another.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/delta-blew-up-generals-quarters/|title=The time Delta burned the barracks down|publisher=wearethemighty.com|date=1 August 2021|access-date=31 January 2023}}</ref>
* [[Tradecraft]] (during the first OTCs and Delta creation, [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] personnel were used to teach this portion of the training):
** Students learn different espionage-related skills, such as [[dead drop]]s, [[Brush pass|brief encounters]], pickups, load and unload signals, danger and safe signals, [[surveillance]] and [[Countersurveillance|counter-surveillance]].
* [[Executive protection|Executive Protection]] (during the first OTCs and creation of Delta, the [[United States Department of State|U.S. State Department]]'s [[Diplomatic Security Service]] and the [[United States Secret Service]] were consulted and advised Delta):
** Students take an advanced driving course to learn to use a vehicle or many vehicles as defensive and offensive weapons.
** They then learn techniques for [[Very important person|VIP]] and diplomatic protection developed by the Secret Service and DSS.
* Culmination Exercise:
** A final test requires the students to apply and dynamically adapt all of the skills that they have learned.

Delta Force trains with other foreign [[Special forces|special operations units]] to improve tactics and increase relationships with them, including the Australian [[Special Air Service Regiment]], the British [[Special Air Service]], and Canada's [[Joint Task Force 2]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Atlamazoglou |first=Stavros |date=19 October 2021 |title=AUKUS security pact follows decades of special ops cooperation |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/aukus-security-pact-follows-decades-of-special-ops-cooperation-2021-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211114114301/https://www.businessinsider.com/aukus-security-pact-follows-decades-of-special-ops-cooperation-2021-10 |archive-date=14 November 2021 |access-date=15 November 2021 |website=[[Business Insider]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Atlamazoglou |first=Stavros |date=2020-02-03 |title=Canadian soldier serving in a Tier 1 SOF unit kicked out of the military for theft |url=https://sofrep.com/news/canadian-soldier-serving-in-a-tier-1-sof-unit-kicked-out-of-the-military-for-theft/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509093646/https://sofrep.com/news/canadian-soldier-serving-in-a-tier-1-sof-unit-kicked-out-of-the-military-for-theft/ |archive-date=9 May 2022 |access-date=2021-11-15 |website=SOFREP |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sof |first=Eric |date=15 May 2013 |title=Sayeret Matkal: A<!-- Sic --> Israel's Equivalent to the Delta Force |url=https://special-ops.org/sayeret-matkal/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115133413/https://special-ops.org/sayeret-matkal/ |archive-date=15 November 2021 |access-date=2021-11-15 |magazine=Spec Ops Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>