This picture is featured on the Green Beret Foundation Facebook page, and showcases SF Operators from multiple countries. Can you identify which countries each of these operators come from?
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Can You Guess Which Country These Special Forces Operators Are From?
Wednesday, April 9th, 2014Forces Focus – Marine Infantry Unit Leaders Course
Saturday, April 5th, 2014This is a little taste of the Infantry Unit Leaders Course, offered through the Advanced Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-East. This 11-week course introduces students to advanced concepts, new technology, and tactics, techniques, and procedures through professional reading, classroom instruction, guided discussions, tactical decision games, sand table exercises and tactical exercises without troops, which are reinforced through field and field firing exercises. Students demonstrate mastery of the subject matter and develop critical thinking skills through performance-based exercises where they are assigned leadership positions ranging in topic and progressing in difficulty. Students will be drilled on the fundamentals of platoon level leadership including employment of 60mm & 81mm mortar weapon systems core competencies and employment as well as Medium and Heavy machinegun gunnery and employment and assault and anti armor techniques and procedures. Students will begin the core training packages in a classroom type environment where decision-making and sand table exercise will be the primary training method. From there students will be presented with field scenarios at Fort Pickett, Virginia.
Forces Focus – Special Forces Sniper Course
Wednesday, March 26th, 2014Some of you have been wondering what the USASOC Sniper Competition this week is all about. We ran across this video on the Special Forces Sniper Course that gives you the background on the intensive, 8 week program that produces SOF Snipers for the US Army. This is the caliber of competitors at this week’s match.
See you there!
AG? What’s That?
Tuesday, February 25th, 2014This photo is for those Big Green guys who’ve never heard of an Assistant Gunner. Apparently, the Rangers have figured it out.
Rangers from the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment lay suppressive fire during a live fire exercise at Fort Hunter Liggett, CA Jan. 31, 2014. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Steve Cortez/ Released)
Notice Anything?
Sunday, February 23rd, 2014
Army Rangers assigned to 2nd Battalion, The 75th Ranger Regiment, fire at an enemy bunker during task force training on Camp Roberts, Calif., Feb. 1, 2014. Rangers constantly train to maintain their tactical proficiency.
(The U.S. Army photo by Spc. Steven Hitchcock/Released)
Special Operations Forces
Monday, February 3rd, 2014From 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
Forces Focus – Special Forces – Just In Time (Russian with English subtitles)
Friday, January 31st, 2014
Forces Focus -16th Air Assault Brigade
Thursday, December 26th, 2013Happy Boxing Day to our British Friends. A tip of the beret to you.
