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To: ansel12

The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM or SOCOM) is the unified combatant command charged with overseeing the various special operations component commands of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force of the United States Armed Forces. The command is part of the Department of Defense and is the only unified combatant command created by an Act of Congress. USSOCOM is headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida.

USSOCOM is involved with clandestine activity, such as direct action, special reconnaissance, counter-terrorism, foreign internal defense, unconventional warfare, psychological warfare, civil affairs, and counter-narcotics operations. Each branch has a distinct Special Operations Command that is capable of running its own operations, but when the different special operations forces need to work together for an operation, USSOCOM becomes the joint component command of the operation, instead of a SOC of a specific branch.

On 1 December 1989, the United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) activated as the 16th major Army command. These special operations forces have been America’s spearhead for unconventional warfare for more than 40 years. USASOC commands such units as the well known Special Forces (SF, or the “Green Berets”), the Rangers, and such relatively unknown units as two psychological operations groups, a special aviation regiment, a civil affairs brigade, and a special sustainment brigade. These are one of the USSOCOM’s main weapons for waging unconventional warfare and counter-insurgency. The significance of these units is emphasized as conventional conflicts are becoming less prevalent as insurgent and guerrilla warfare increases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Special_Operations_Command


58 posted on 04/14/2023 6:53:03 PM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

Yeah, my unit was in it.

Now show me the quote from the secret documents that we have 14 Green Berets in Ukraine.


61 posted on 04/14/2023 6:57:35 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: kabar

When we say Special Forces, we’re referring to soldiers wearing green berets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Special_Forces

That’s been long known among members of our military forces who worked with them. For example, we don’t refer to SEALs with that name.


71 posted on 04/14/2023 7:28:59 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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