Recruitment

Most recruits come from the Special Forces Groups and the 75th Ranger Regiment, but some operators have come from other units of the army.^[10] Since the 1990s, the Army has posted recruitment notices for the 1st SFOD-D.^[11] The Army, however, has never released an official fact sheet for the force. The recruitment notices placed in Fort Bragg's newspaper, Paraglide, refer to Delta Force by name, and label it "...the U.S. Army's special operations unit organized for the conduct of missions requiring rapid response with surgical application of a wide variety of unique special operations skills..."^[12] The notice states that all applicants must be male, in the ranks of E-4 through E-8, have at least two and a half years of service time remaining in their enlistment, be 21 years or older and score high enough on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test to attend a briefing to be considered for admission.