Ada 2 figur alumni sekolah parakomando di Fort Bragg itu dalam film-film perang versi Holywood, yaitu figur Rambo dan Arnold (dalam film Commando). Keduanya digambarkan sebagai pasukan komando terbaik dari sekolah 'Green Barret' itu. Bahkan ketika harus membebaskan sanderanya.

Tapi kalau figur Rambo yang membebaskan tawanan US Army yang ditahan Vietcong, atau tokoh Arnold dalam film Commando yang membebaskan anak wanita satu-satunya dari penjahat, hanyalah figur fiktif belaka. Itu beda dengan figur Prabowo Subianto, yang memang pernah belajar di Fort Bragg itu dengan lulus terbaik sebagai siswa asing. Sepertinya memang takdir alumni Fort Bragg untuk senantiasa membebaskan para sandera, maka Prabowo pun pernah memimpin misi pembebasan sandera asing yang di tawan OPM hingga 4 bulan di hutan-hutan Papuan sekitar tahun 1995 lalu. Berikut liputan median dan videonya:




The Courage to Jump in Indonesia
Posted: 09/12/2012 3:24 pm


General Wayne Downing

Jenderal Wayne Downing(perwira terkemuka Amerika Serikat dan pelatih prajurit asing yang berlatih di Amerika Serikat, pelatih Prabowo di Fort Bragg):
"Of all the foreign soldiers I ever trained, two stood out. One was Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein, the reigning King of Jordan. The other was Prabowo Subianto."

JAKARTA--Five years ago, one of the most respected soldiers in U.S. history died too soon. Wayne Downing was a West Point graduate and four-star general who served two tours in Vietnam and came out of retirement after 9/11 to serve as anti-terrorism advisor to President George W. Bush.

Known as the father of the modern Rangers, Downing commanded America's elite counter-terrorism teams in the 1990s and spent decades training foreign soldiers who came to Fort Bragg to learn about democracy. Not long before he died, I had lunch with General Downing at the White House.

He told me that of all the foreign soldiers he ever trained, two stood out. One was Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein, the reigning King of Jordan. The other was Prabowo Subianto, the former commander of Indonesia's special forces, and the current front-runner to be Indonesia's next president in 2014.

Meeting with Prabowo, now a successful businessman, and his wealthy brother Hashim Djojohadikusumo here in this capital city, it's not hard to see what General Downing saw. Prabowo is strategic and insightful, remarkably idealistic about his country and confident about its future. The scion of one of Indonesia's most prestigious families, he grows passionate when he speaks about the nation's income inequalities. He embodies a strength that is later captured well by Juwono Sudarsono, the respected former Minister of Defense, who tells me, "Prabowo leads the pack because he projects grit, firm leadership and decisiveness--which are seen to be lacking in our current leadership."

That Prabowo is part of the conversation at all here is a testament to both his survival skills and the growing pains felt by this archipelago nation in its second decade of democracy. In some ways, he is the last person Westerners expected to be in a position of leadership--which has some wondering what his ascension means for Indonesia, and the future of Asia's democracies.

Stanley A. Weiss is Founding Chairman of Business Executives for National Security, a nonpartisan organization based in Washington. The views expressed are his own.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stanle...b_1878268.html



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Jenderal Pasukan Khusus dari AS saja, mengakui reputasi Prabowo sebagai anak didiknya yang terbaik saat dia melatih di pusat pelatihan pasukan khusus AS, Fort Bragg, yang menjadi tempat pelatian "Green Baret' itu. Gitu kok masih banyak yang meragukan yak!