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The
United States Biological Weapons Special Operations Unit (
BWSOU), most commonly known as the
Hamlin Battalion,
BWOPS and
Task Force Grey within JSOC, was an elite top secret special mission unit of the United States Army under the direct and operational control of the Joint Special Operations Command. The unit was tasked specialized missions primarily in animal warfare and in field reconnaissance, although later missions would be primarily focused on the testing and deployment of genetically modified animals, entomological weapons and biological weapons in warfare, both in testing and in the field. For a time, the so-called Hamlin Battalion was one of the few units in the United States Armed Forces that was cleared to handle and research biological weapons on its own terms, under the supervision of the United States Joint Intelligence Division. Nearly all of Hamlin Battalion's recruits were selected from the top classes of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, and specialised bioweapon handlers were selected from other special forces groups, most notably from Delta Force and Seal Team Six.
The unit was officially formed on May 6, 1948, shortly after the end of the Second World War and has secretly participated in every major conflict involving the United States up to 2006, including the Korean War, Vietnam War, First Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan and the Iraq War. It also had conducted secret labratory experiments and field tests not under the supervision of the United States Military during the period between 1996 and 1999 which resulted in several incidents in Alaska although it was later covered up.
The unit would be officially disbanded on July 22, 2007 as a result of the entire unit mutinying and eventually going rogue along with its commander, and in the process triggering the Terror Bite terrorist attacks across the country. The exposure of the Revelations Attack Plot alongisde the mutiny would force the United States Armed Forces to declassify all documents relating to the Hamlin Battalion stretching back to the foundation of the unit in 1948, including operations it conducted under the guise of biological warfare. The attacks it conducted in California and Colorado is considered by the United States Federal Government and the United States Armed Forces to be a bioterrorist attack, from the biological weapon attack on San Francisco International Airport targeting a group of VSSE Agents, to a large fire fight in the streets of San Francisco to the final attack on Buckley Air Force Base near Aurora, Colorado.