1st Special Forces Group (United States)

1st Special Forces Group (Airborne)
1st Special Forces Group beret flash
Active24 June 1957 – 28 June 1974
4 September 1984 – present
CountryUnited States United States of America
Branch United States Army
TypeSpecial Operations Forces
RolePrimary tasks:
  • Unconventional Warfare (UW)
  • Foreign Internal Defense (FID)
  • Direct Action (DA)
  • Counter-Insurgency (COIN)
  • Special Reconnaissance (SR)
  • Counter-Terrorism (CT)
  • Information Operations (IO)
  • Counterproliferation of WMD (CP)
  • Security Force Assistance (SFA)
Size4 Battalions: One at Torii Station, Okinawa, Japan, three in Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington
Part of 1st Special Forces Command
Garrison/HQJoint Base Lewis-McChord
Motto(s)First in Asia[1]
EngagementsVietnam War
War on Terror
Insignia
Former 1st SFG(A) recognition bar, worn by non-Special Forces qualified soldiers—in lieu of a beret flash—from the 1960s to 1984[3]
1st Special Forces Command (Airborne) shoulder sleeve insignia, worn by all 1st SFC(A) units

The 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) (1st SFG) (A) is a unit of the U.S. Army Special Forces operating under the United States Pacific Command. It is designed to deploy and execute nine doctrinal missions throughout the Indo-Pacific Command area of operations: unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, direct action, counter-insurgency, special reconnaissance, counter-terrorism, information operations, counterproliferation of weapon of mass destruction, and security force assistance.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ "INDIGENOUS APPROACH PODCAST: 1ST SPECIAL FORCES GROUP - PREFERRED PARTNERS IN INDOPACOM". Small Wars Journal.
  2. ^ Sisk, Richard (26 August 2016). "Green Beret Killed by IED Was on Patrol with Afghan Special Forces". Military.com. Archived from the original on 5 June 2022.
  3. ^ Rottman, Gordon L. (2012). US Army Special Forces, 1952-84. London: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1782004462. OCLC 813846700. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  4. ^ "ARSOF Fact Book 2018". United States Army Special Operations Command. 2018. Archived from the original on 18 March 2021.
  5. ^ "1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne)". GlobalSecurity.org. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021.
  6. ^ "Interview U.S. Army General Tommy Franks". Campaign Against Terror. PBS. Frontline. 8 September 2002. Archived from the original on 3 February 2022.

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