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The Strategic Support Branch was financed using "reprogrammed" funds, without explicit authority or appropriation of the United States Congress. The Pentagon hadn't released any details of the unit's operations or even of its existence to Congress until after an article about the secret unit was released by The Washington Post.
The Intelligence Support Activity (ISA), also known at various times as Mission Support Activity (MSA), Office of Military Support (OMS), Field Operations Group (FOG), Studies and Analysis Activity (SAA), Tactical Concept Activity, Tactical Support Team, Tactical Coordination Detachment, [1] and also nicknamed "The Activity" and the "Army of Northern Virginia", [2] is a United States Army ...
On April 2, 1946, the Strategic Services Unit was transferred to the new group as the Office of Special Operations (OSO) and a transfer of personnel began immediately. In 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency was established under the 1947 National Security Act , incorporating the Central Intelligence Group.
Operating under the direct control of the BOPs Office of Emergency Preparedness, these units consist of Special Operations Response Teams, or SORTs; Disturbance Control Teams; and Hostage Negotiation Teams. The Office of Emergency Preparedness was established in May 1990 and is responsible for overseeing the agency's SORT program and ...
Reports released this month indicate the Army might cut up to 3,000 troops from special operation forces. Sen. Ted Budd has raised concerns.
The Office of Special Operations (OSO) was an office of both the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). [1] The head of OSO was the Assistant Director for the Office of Special Operations (ADSO), the first to hold that title being Donald H. Galloway .
When I entered the special operations community in 2003, "veteran nonprofit services" meant partaking in cheap beers and drunken war myths, courtesy of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, a charitable ...
The Special Operations Branch (SO) was a branch of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II that "pioneered" many of the unconventional warfare, counter-insurgency (COIN), and foreign internal defense tactics and techniques used by today's US Military Special Operations Forces (SOF). [1] [2] Special Operations was the American ...