The "A" stood for "Alpha" meanig Alpha Team which is a military term used to describe the first team in a miltary squad of U.S. Army Special Forces troops now called ODA's (Operation Detachment Alpha) hence A-team. The second was a Bravo Team. An instance of it's use in a simple squad ambush the A-team would be the assault element and the B-team would be the support element, covering the objective as the A-team assaults it.
According to the Special Forces histories, an A-Team was generally a large unit that usually consisted of twelve guys, which would be lead by someone with a higher rank than colonel. The term is now used to describe a flight of Joint Terminal Attack Controllers, Tactical Air Command And Control Specialists that supports the United States Armies 101st Airborne Division, 1st BCT, at Fort Campbell, in Kentucky. The A-team was called up to support Operation Iraqi Freedom. |
