Robert Martinage, then an analyst with the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, wrote in a 2008 report that only “select units” of the Pentagon Joint Special Operations Command “are equipped and trained in the requisite tactics, techniques and procedures” for conducting “render safe” missions.
This command includes the Army First Operational Detachment-Delta, or Delta Force, and the Navy’s counter-terror unit, Seal Team Six.
Martinage until recently was principal deputy to the Pentagon’s assistant secretary for special operations.