10 Things You Didn't Know About The President's Secret Army

The U.S. Joint Special Operations Command is best known for the Osama bin Laden raid. But it has long served as the president's secret army, planning and executing the most dangerous, highly classified missions of the United States military. In 2009, its snipers rescued an American ship captain held captive by Somali pirates.

In 2003, they hunted down and captured Saddam Hussein near Tikrit, Iraq. In 1993, two Delta snipers earned posthumous Congressional Medals of Honor for actions during the Battle of Mogadishu. And before that, members of the Command were tracking Scud missiles during the Gulf War and slithering down ropes in Panama.

Here are a few things about the president's secret army that you might not know.