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The 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) (10th SFG (A), or 10th Group) is an active duty United States Army Special Forces (SF) Group. 10th Group is designed to deploy and execute nine doctrinal missions: unconventional warfare (UW), foreign internal defense (FID), direct action (DA), counterinsurgency, special reconnaissance, counterterrorism, information operations, counter-proliferation of ...
12th Special Forces Group (U.S. Army Reserve) – Active from 1961 to 1994. Short-lived groups in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly Reserve Component, but now inactive, included the 2nd, 9th, and 17th. Group which were raised by State Adjutants General at the same time, but which may not have received Federal Recognition include the 4th, 14th & 15th ...
The primary mission of the Army Special Forces is to train and lead unconventional warfare (UW) forces, or a clandestine guerrilla force in an occupied nation. [23] The 10th Special Forces Group was the first deployed SF unit, intended to train and lead UW forces behind enemy lines in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion of Western Europe. [24]
Due to reorganizations in the Army, the 10th Mountain Headquarters was activated with only a headquarters company in 1985, and served in numerous contingencies throughout the 1990s. During another Army reorganization in 2004, the 10th Mountain Division Headquarters Company was reestablished as the Division Special Troops Battalion (DSTB ...
Detachment A also known as 7781 Army Unit, and 39th Special Forces Operational Detachment was a specialised unit within the 10th Special Forces Group founded in 1956 and based in Bad Tölz, West Germany later West Berlin. [1] [2] [3] It consisted of approximately 90 members and operated primarily in Berlin. [4]
Pages in category "Special forces groups of the United States Army" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) was split, with the cadre that kept the designation 10th SFG deployed to Bad Tölz, Germany, in September 1953. The remaining cadre at Fort Bragg formed the 77th Special Forces Group, which in May 1960 was reorganized and designated as today's 7th Special Forces Group. [8]
Consolidated 30 September 1960 with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 10th Special Forces Group (activated 11 June 1952), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 10th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated 20 March 1961)