Back in the 70s I believe Airborne was considered one of the ‘special forces’.
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That’s what I was thinking. I hope someone here really knows if you are right and it applies here.
Back in the 70s I believe Airborne was considered one of the ‘special forces’.
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That’s what I was thinking. I hope someone here really knows if you are right and it applies here.
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I was in the 101st Airborne in 1967 and we were not considered special forces. That was reserved for Green Berets and Rangers.
In 1968 I joined The Redcatchers of the 199th Light Inf. and they had a Ranger unit and a LRP Unit.
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M COMPANY (RANGER), 75TH INFANTRY (AIRBORNE), 199TH LIGHT INFANTRY BRIGADE
71ST INFANTRY DETACHMENT (AIRBORNE, LRP), 199TH LIGHT INFANTRY BRIGADE
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The rest of us Redcatchers were just Air Mobile (=We Were Soldiers= type) grunts, a lot of us had Airborne jump wings, but were not Special Forces. Of course testosterony 18 year olds like I was at the time all thought we were badasses :-)
(Emphatically) No.
Airborne units are guys who are all graduates of Jump School.
They get extra pay for jumping out of airplanes.
It's usually a prerequisite for getting into Special Forces that you be Airborne qualified, but it's definitely NOT the same thing.