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    From Korea to Afghanistan: Special Forces Legend Billy Waugh's Amazing Career Spanned

    Billy Waugh was a special forces legend and CIA paramilitary legend. In 1995 he was working at the CIA desk in Sudan and had the drop of bin Laden. He often jogged within feet of bin Laden and could have assassinated him, if only permission had been granted via a presidential order.

    He died 4 April 2023. RIP.

    From Korea to Afghanistan: Special Forces Legend Billy Waugh's Amazing Career Spanned

    To say William "Billy" Waugh was a legend in the Special Forces community is more than an understatement. He was very nearly mythological.


    The unparalleled godfather of the Green Berets, and CIA septuagenarian at the spearhead of early operations in Afghanistan, passed away Tuesday. He was 93.



    Waugh was on any short list of famed operators who deployed to the Korean, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars, serving in dozens of countries in his more than 50-year career with Special Forces and the Central Intelligence Agency.


    In Vietnam, he was almost fatally wounded, later receiving a Silver Star. Despite the wounds, he returned to the war after recovering at Walter Reed. In the '70s, he was the first soldier to conduct a high-altitude, low-opening jump -- known as a HALO jump, now a staple in the special operations repertoire.



    When he finished his military career at the rank of sergeant major, Waugh had earned the Silver Star, four Bronze Stars, eight Purple Hearts, more than a dozen Army Air Medals, and a bevy of other awards, according to 1st Special Forces Command, which announced his passing this week.


    "From Korea to Afghanistan and every conflict in between, I have fought whomever my country ordered me to fight," Waugh wrote in his autobiography, "Hunting the Jackal." "For 50 years in 64 countries, I have sought and destroyed my country's enemies -- whether they be called communists or terrorists -- wherever they hide."


    While Waugh is known for his daring feats and fabled accolades, he was also a lifelong supporter of the military communities that formed him. In turn, he formed them under the shadow of his likeness, never losing his Texas heart, keen wit and indomitable spirit.
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