FORT BRAGG, N.C. (USASOC News Service, Jan. 31, 2014) -- Friends and family gathered at the U.S. Army Special Operations Command memorial plaza to honor Detachment A and their 28 years of valorous ...

In the event of World War III – with Soviet forces expected to come pouring across the Berlin Wall – members of the detachment, who never numbered more than 100 men, were expected to blend ...

Charest, born in Brentwood in 1939, was a Special Forces Green Beret assigned to “Detachment A, Berlin Brigade” serving in Germany for eight years between 1969 and 1978.