Delta existed outside of that bureaucracy, with a direct line to top US Department of Defense (DOD) brass and the President.
[1] The unit recruited a female soldier named Katie Bradford, who served as an intelligence analyst, although she's been trained to handle combat missions when needed.
[1] Blue Light may have been a randomly generated code name, or may be a reference to American radar officer's slang, in which "to bluelight" can reportedly be used as a verb, meaning "to detect a contact with radar," thus metaphorically suggesting the ability to discover the enemy's hiding place.
[6] In the 1990 film Die Hard 2, a U.S. Army Special Forces counter-terrorist response unit, referred to as "Blue Light", is called in when presumed terrorists seize Washington Dulles International Airport.
In the Season 1 Episode 9 of the 2024 TV series The Agency a deep-cover kill team deployed in Ukraine are reassigned the work with a "Blue Light" whose mission takes priority over their previous assignment Operation Felix.