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• Operation Inherent ResolveWEB, Brooks, Drew, 21 December 2016, ‘We’re a significant presence:’ General updates Fort Bragg troops on Islamic State fight,www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/we-re-a-significant-presence-general-updates-fort-bragg-troops-on-islamic-state-fight-1.445511,www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/we-re-a-significant-presence-general-updates-fort-bragg-troops-on-islamic-state-fight-1.445511," title="web.archive.org/web/20161222151424www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/we-re-a-significant-presence-general-updates-fort-bragg-troops-on-islamic-state-fight-1.445511,">web.archive.org/web/20161222151424www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/we-re-a-significant-presence-general-updates-fort-bragg-troops-on-islamic-state-fight-1.445511, 22 December 2016, dead, Stars and Stripes (newspaper), Stars and Stripes, The Fayetteville Observer, N.C.; Tribune News Service, 30 June 2022, | anniversaries = | decorations = | battle_honours = | battle_honours_label = | disbanded = | flying_hours = | website =

Major general (United States)>MG Lawrence G. FergusonHTTPS://WWW.GOMO.ARMY.MIL/PUBLIC/BIOGRAPHY/USA-11144/LAWRENCEG-FERGUSON>TITLE=BRIGADIER GENERAL LAWRENCE G. FERGUSON (USA) COMMANDING GENERAL 1ST SPECIAL FORCES COMMAND (AIRBORNE)DATE=23 JUNE 2023WEBSITE=FAYOBSERVER.COMACCESS-DATE=12 OCTOBER 2023, {{subscription required}}| commander1_label = Commanding General| commander2 = Vacant| commander2_label = Deputy CommanderCommand Sergeant Major (United States)>CSM Ted C. Munter| commander3_label = Command Sergeant Major| notable_commanders = 125px|center)United States military beret flash>Beret flash of the command110px|center)Distinctive unit insignia and U.S. Army Regimental System>regimental insignia of the special forces| countries = | current_commander = }}{{Listen50px)| help = no| filename = US Army 1st Special Forces Command overview video.ogv| title = 1st Special Forces Command overview}}The 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne) is a division-level special operations forces command within the United States Army Special Operations Command.WEB, Trevithick, Joseph, 26 November 2014, The U.S. Army Has Quietly Created a New Commando Division,medium.com/war-is-boring/the-u-s-army-has-quietly-created-a-new-commando-division-2b90961b4821, Medium (website), Medium.com, 25 February 2015, The command was first established in 1989 and reorganized in 2014 grouping together the Army Special Forces (a.k.a. “the Green Berets“),WEB, Venhuizen, Harm, 14 July 2020, How the Green Berets Got Their Name,www.armytimes.com/off-duty/2020/07/14/how-the-green-berets-got-their-name/, Army Times, 30 June 2022, WEB, Goldberg, Maren, Green Berets: United States military,www.britannica.com/topic/Green-Berets, Encyclopædia Britannica, n.d., en, 30 June 2022, WEB, USASOC Headquarters Fact Sheet,www.soc.mil/USASOCHQ/USASOCHQFactSheet.html,web.archive.org/web/20131014195807/www.soc.mil/USASOCHQ/USASOCHQFactSheet.html, 14 October 2013, dead, United States Army Special Operations Command, 30 June 2022, psychological operations, civil affairs, and support troops into a single organization operating out of its headquarters at Fort Liberty, North Carolina.NEWS, Brooks, Drew, 28 July 2017, 1st Special Forces Command gets new leader,www.fayobserver.com/news/20170728/1st-special-forces-command-gets-new-leader, The Fayetteville Observer, Fayetteville, N.C., 30 June 2022,

Mission

The mission of 1SFC (A) is to organize, equip, train, and validate forces to conduct full-spectrum special operations in support of United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), Geographic Combatant Commanders, American ambassadors, and other governmental agencies. The new command includes all seven Special Forces groups (including the five active duty and two Army National Guard groups), two Psychological Operations groups, a civil affairs brigade, and a sustainment brigade. The Command has the ability to rapidly deploy a high-level headquarters to run sustained, unconventional campaigns in foreign theaters.WEB, Rogers, Darsie, 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne),www.benning.army.mil/mcoe/maneuverconference/presentation/pdf/BGRogers.pdf,www.benning.army.mil/mcoe/maneuverconference/presentation/pdf/BGRogers.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20141104061300www.benning.army.mil/mcoe/maneuverconference/presentation/pdf/BGRogers.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20141104061300www.benning.army.mil/mcoe/maneuverconference/presentation/pdf/BGRogers.pdf, dead, 4 November 2014, Benning Army, 25 February 2015, 11, WEB, Scott Tyson, Ann, NEW ELITE DIVISION-LEVEL UNIT CREATED BY ARMY,warrior.scout.com/story/1493232-new-elite-division-level-unit-created-by-army, 25 February 2015, 17 December 2014,warrior.scout.com/story/1493232-new-elite-division-level-unit-created-by-army," title="web.archive.org/web/20150215230956warrior.scout.com/story/1493232-new-elite-division-level-unit-created-by-army,">web.archive.org/web/20150215230956warrior.scout.com/story/1493232-new-elite-division-level-unit-created-by-army, 15 February 2015, dead, {|class=“wikitable”!colspan=“3“|(File:United States Army Special Forces SSI (1958-2015).png|25px) 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne)Army Special Operations Forces Fact Book 2018 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019193907www.soc.mil/USASOCHQ/USASOCHQFactSheet.html |date=2016-10-19 }}, USASOC official website, dated 2018, last accessed 28 July 2019!Name !! Headquarters !! Structure and purposeUnited States Army Special Forces>Special Forces Groups|Variousunconventional warfare (United States)>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 via seven geographically focused groups:

• (File:1sfg.png|17px) (File:SpecialForces Badge.svg|20px) 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) (USINDOPACOM)
• (File:3sfg.svg|17px) (File:SpecialForces Badge.svg|20px) 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) (USAFRICOM)
• (File:5th SFG Beret Flash.png|17px) (File:SpecialForces Badge.svg|20px) 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) (USCENTCOM)
• (File:7th Special Forces Group.svg|17px) (File:SpecialForces Badge.svg|20px) 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) (USSOUTHCOM)
• (File:USA - 10th Special Forces Flash.svg|17px) (File:SpecialForces Badge.svg|20px) 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) (USEUCOM)
• (File:19sfg.png|17px) (File:SpecialForces Badge.svg|20px) 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne) (ARNG) (USINDOPACOM and USCENTCOM)
• (File:20th Special Forces Group flash.png|17px) (File:SpecialForces Badge.svg|20px) 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne) (ARNG) (USSOUTHCOM)

Psychological operations (United States)>Psychological Operations Groups|Ft. Liberty, North Carolina|Tasked to work with foreign nations to induce or reinforce behavior favorable to U.S. objectives via two operational groups that provide scalable, regionally oriented, and culturally astute special operations psychological operations forces to combatant commanders, U.S. ambassadors, and other agencies. Their mission is to advise, plan, develop, synchronize, deliver and assess military information support operations and other information related capabilities across the range of military operations.

• (File:US Army 4th Military Information Support Group Flash.png|17px) (File:4th Military Information Support Group.jpg|18px) 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne)
  • (File:US Army 4th Military Information Support Group Flash.png|17px) (File:1stPOB.jpg|18px) 1st Psychological Operations Battalion (Airborne) (USSOUTHCOM)
  • (File:US Army 5th Psychological Operations Battalion Beret Flash.png|17px) (File:5thPOB.jpg|18px) 5th Psychological Operations Battalion (Airborne) (USINDOPACOM)
  • (File:US Army 4th Military Information Support Group Flash.png|17px) (File:6thPOB.jpg|18px) 6th Psychological Operations Battalion (Airborne) (USEUCOM)
  • (File:US Army 7th MISB Flash.png|17px) (File:7thPOB.jpg|18px) 7th Psychological Operations Battalion (Airborne) (USAFRICOM)
  • (File:US Army 8th MSIB Flash.png|17px) (File:8thPOB.jpg|18px) 8th Psychological Operations Battalion (Airborne) (USCENTCOM)
• (File:US Army 8th Military Information Support Group Flash.png|17px) (File:US Army 8th Psychological Operations Group DUI.png|18px) 8th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne)
  • (File:US Army 3rd MISB Flash.png|17px) (File:3rdPOB.jpg|18px) 3rd Psychological Operations Battalion (Airborne) (Dissemination)
  • (File:US Army 8th Military Information Support Group Flash.png|17px) (File:9thPOB.jpg|18px) 9th Psychological Operations Battalion (Airborne) (Tactical)

17px) (File:95CABDEDUI.jpg|18px) 95th Civil Affairs Brigade (Special Operations) (Airborne)|Ft. Liberty, North Carolina|The 95th enables military commanders and U.S. ambassadors to achieve national objectives by countering adversary control and improving a partner’s control over populations. The 95th accomplishes this as a member of the ARSOF team and through its relationships with the U.S. Department of State, government and non-governmental organizations, and local populations via five geographically focused battalions:

• (File:US Army 91st Civil Affairs Battalion Flash.png|17px) (File:91 CA Bn DUI.jpg|18px) 91st Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne) (USAFRICOM)
• (File:US Army 92nd Civil Affairs Battalion Flash.png|17px) (File:92 CA Bn DUI.jpg|18px) 92nd Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne) (USEUCOM)
• (File:96 Civil Affairs Battalion Flash.png|17px) (File:96thCivilAffairsBattalion.png|18px) 96th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne) (USCENTCOM)
• (File:US Army 97th Civil Affairs Battalion Flash.png|17px) (File:97CivilAffairsBnDUI.jpg|18px) 97th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne) (USINDOPACOM)
• (File:US Army 98th Civil Affairs Battalion Flash.png|17px) (File:98 CA Bn DUI.jpg|18px) 98th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne) (USSOUTHCOM)

17px) (File:528 Spt Bn DUI.png528th Sustainment Brigade (United States)>528th Sustainment Brigade (Special Operations) (Airborne)|Ft. Liberty, North Carolina|The 528th provides enduring logistics, signal support, and medical care to Army Special Operations Forces (RSOF) and joint elements worldwide and is task organized with a various elements based at each Theater Special Operations Command (TSOC) and Army Service Component Command (ASCC) via the following units:

• (File:US Army 112th SIG BN Flash.svg|17px) (File:112 Sig Bn DUI.png|18px) 112th Special Operations Signal Battalion (Airborne)
• (File:US Army SFC MI BN Flash.png|17px) (File:US Army 389th MI Bn (ABN) DUI.png|18px) 389th Military Intelligence Battalion (Special Operations) (Airborne)—assigned to 1st SFC(A) G2FROM LEYTE TO THE LEVANT, A Brief History of the 389th Military Intelligence Battalion (Airborne), OFFICE OF THE COMMAND HISTORIAN (USASOC), by Christopher E. Howard, dated 2019, last accessed 27 November 2020
• (File:US Army 528th Support Battalion Flash.png|17px) (File:US Army 197th Special Troops Support Company Beret Flash.png|17px) (File:528 Spt Bn DUI.png|18px) Special Troops Battalion
• (File:US Army 528th Support Battalion Flash.png|17px) (File:528 Spt Bn DUI.png|18px) Support Operations

(File:US Army 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne) Structure - April 2020.png|thumb|center|800px|1st Special Forces Command (Airborne) structure 2020)

1st Special Forces Regiment

All seven Special Forces Groups were redesignated as part of the 1st Special Forces Regiment, and as such, were made part of its historical lineage, with all the campaign credits and battle honors that go with it. The Regiment is ceremonial, not operational.WEB,history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/sf/defaultSF.htm, Lineage and Honors Information Special Forces, history.army.mil,

See also

• United States Special Operations Command
  • Joint Special Operations Command
• United States Army Special Operations Command
• United States Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command
• United States Naval Special Warfare Command
• Air Force Special Operations Command
• Army Special Operations Brigade - the equivalent to the command within the British Armed Forces

References

External links

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