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Special Operations Forces

Monday, February 3rd, 2014

From the video description:

Special Operation Forces – Department of Defense 1984 – PIN 701181 –

The film tells the story of the Special Operations Forces, and the special situations, for unconventional war, and a general war if the need arises because of today’s world situations. The evolving nations with political and economic power struggles have created a constant stream of world wide special situations and these are the missions of SOF.

1. Foreign internal defense
2. Unconventional warfare
3. Strategic and tactical reconnisance
4. Strike
5. Strategic and tactical PSYOPS
6. Civil administration
7. Rescue and evacuation
8. Collection security
9. Humanitarian operations
10. Terrorism counteraction
11. Civil affairs
12. Safeguarding of U.S. citizens abroad
13. Deception operations
14. Security assistance
15. Special Operations Aviation
16. Sabotage

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Forces Focus – Special Forces – Just In Time (Russian with English subtitles)

Friday, January 31st, 2014

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Forces Focus -16th Air Assault Brigade

Thursday, December 26th, 2013

Happy Boxing Day to our British Friends. A tip of the beret to you.

Tags: 16th Air Assault Brigade, UK
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Forces Focus – SF Airborne Operations

Sunday, December 22nd, 2013

Here’s some motivational video of SF and support personnel conducting airborne operations.

Thanks Karl!

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Forces Focus – 3rd SFG(A) SOCP

Tuesday, December 17th, 2013

3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) Combatives Program from Fort Bragg, N.C. on Vimeo.

This video gives you an inside look at 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne)’s Special Operations Combative Program.

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Forces Focus – Have Ace

Saturday, December 14th, 2013

Have Ace is a 2-week long training program at Eglin AFB, FL for Army, Navy and Marine SOF to provide live fire ranges and to familiarize them with AFSOC aircraft.

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Forces Focus – Take A Look At The 1st Special Operations Wing

Tuesday, November 5th, 2013

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It Was 30 Years Ago Today

Friday, October 25th, 2013

On the morning of October 25th, 1983 America awoke to reports that our troops had invaded a small Caribbean nation named Grenada in order to liberate American medical students from danger posed by political instability. Joined by Regional Security System troops from a variety of Caribbean partner nations they swiftly overwhelmed the Grenadian and Cuban troops. While Operation Urgent Fury was in name, a joint force operation and included the use of Special Operations Forces, it highlighted many interoperability issues such as use of operational overlays and radio issues.

I was in high school when this went down and it made me want to be in the Army even more than I already did. Thankfully, over time, many of the stove pipe issues suffered by the pre-Goldwater-Nichols military were beginning to be identified when I joined a few years later. Interestingly, the operation was conducted with many systems still in use from the Viet Nam war. Our next time at bat, in Panama, saw several new weapons developed during the Reagan buildup such as the F117 stealth fighter and the Marine Corps LAV. Additionally, SOF took a much more prominent role in operation Blue Spoon.

Let us not forget the 19 Americans killed in action and the 116 who were wounded. Unfortunately, there were 24 Grenadian civilians also killed in the conflict.

Tags: Grenada
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