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USASOC's shoulder sleeve insignia worn by Delta operators. This list of Delta Force members includes both current and former notable members of the United States Army's 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, a tier one special mission unit and part of Joint Special Operations Command.
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 ...
Every other modern U.S. special operations unit in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines was established after 1977. In Veritas: Journal of Army Special Operations History, Charles H. Briscoe states that the Army "Special Forces did not misappropriate the appellation. Unbeknownst to most members of the Army Special Operations Force community ...
Army Special Forces CSIB. The 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne) is a division-level special operation forces command within the US Army Special Operations Command. [6] The command was established on 30 September 2014, grouping together the Army special forces, psychological operations, civil affairs, and other support troops into a single organization operating out of its new headquarters ...
Pages in category "Members of the United States Army Special Forces" The following 125 pages are in this category, out of 125 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
special-operations forces strategic formations and units of the armed forces, whose role is to conduct sabotage, reconnaissance, subversive and other special operations on the territory of foreign countries. In wartime they may also be assigned tasks such as intelligence-gathering, the seizure or destruction of key installations, the conduct of ...
A special mission unit (SMU), at one time referred to as a "tier 1" unit, [1] is a designation for the United States military's most highly secretive and elite special operations forces. [2] The term special missions unit is also used in Australia to describe the Special Air Service Regiment .
United States special operations forces (SOF) are the active and reserve component forces of the United States Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force within the US military, as designated by the Secretary of Defense and specifically organized, trained, and equipped to conduct and support special operations.