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To: unclewest who wrote (130054)8/5/2005 6:15:27 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 793835
 
They do not call themselves Special Forces nor special forces.

Never said they did. In official military terminology they are neither.

Edit - This discussion reminds me of another one I was in recently about the meaning of the word government. In the UK "the government" means something like what we would call "the administration" in the US. But at the same time as an english word government is far more broad than that. And this isn't just American useage. But the person I was talking to didn't even seem to disagree with the wider definition as much as refuse to acknolwedge it.

Many words and terms have mulitple definitions. In some cases only one of them may be offically correct within a certain organization or within a certain context, but that doesn't mean the other definitions don't exist or are utterly invalid.

Tim
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