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Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
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What is Army Special Forces (Green Berets)
Masters at Unconventional Warefare. Proficient in multiple foreign languages and stationed and deployed across the world. Foreign Internal Defense experts. Sent if the United States does not want the public to know that they were involved.
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What is SEALs
Sea, Air, and Land. Small elite teams within the US Navy NSW (Navy Special Warfare). Main missions include conducting insertions and extractions by sea, air, or land to capture high-value targets around the world. Consists of 8 tier-2 teams.
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What is CCT (Combat Controllers)
One man attachment to other SOF units trained in scuba, parachuting, and snowmobiling. Certified air traffic controllers in order to establish air control and provide combat support on missions.
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What are Marine Raiders (MARSOC)
Special Operations Unit within the US Marine Corps tasked with recruiting, training, sustaining, and deploying scalable, expeditionary forces worldwide to accomplish special operations missions worldwide. Also experts in counter-terrorism, direct action, and reconnaissance.
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What is Special Operations Command
SOCOM
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What is Delta Force (CAG, 1st SFOD-D, Task Force Green, The Unit)
Army Tier-1 JSOC unit that specializes in counter-terrorism, hostage rescue, direct action, and special reconnaissance.
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What is SWCC
An elite defense force within the US Navy that operates and maintains an inventory of small craft used to conduct special operations missions, particularly in support of US Navy SEALs or other Special Operations Forces.
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What is PJ (Pararescue Jumpers)
Sent when an injured servicemember needs saving from a hostile or otherwise unreachable area. Tasked with rescuing and medically treating military personal around the world. Skilled parachutists, scuba divers, rock climbers, and arctic trained in order to access any environment to save a life when they are called.
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What is CIA SAD (Ground Branch, Paramilitary Operations Officer, Special Activities Division, Special Activities Center, SAC).
Tasked with leading and managing covert action programs and collecting foreign intelligence. Conducts air, ground, and maritime paramilitary operations, covert action, and intelligence.
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What is Joint Special Operations Command
JSOC
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What is the 75th Ranger Regiment (Army Rangers)
The U.S. Army's premier direct-action raid force. Sent in to conduct airborne and air assault operations, seize key terrain such as airfields, destroying strategic enemy facilities, and capturing/killing enemies.
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What is DEVGRU (Seal Team 6, US Naval Special Warfare Development Group, Task Force Blue)
The "tip of the spear" of Navy Special Warfare. A Tier-1 JSOC Unit within the US Navy that specializes in counter-terrorism, hostage rescue, special reconnaissance, direct action, and maritime operations.
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What is 24th Special Tactics Squadron (Task Force White, 24th STS)
A Tier-1 JSOC unit within the Air Force consisting of Combat Controllers, Pararescue Jumpers, and Special Reconnaissance specialists. Operators work in teams or embed with other Tier-1 SOF units.
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What is FBI HRT (Hostage Rescue Team)
Elite tactical unit of the FBI to provide a full-time federal law enforcement tactical capability to respond to major terrorist incidents throughout the United States as well as overseas.
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What are the Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, Air Force, Space Force (any order)
6 Military Branches
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What is Regimental Reconnaissance Company (RRC, RRD)
A Tier-1 JSOC subset of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the US Army. Experts in special reconnaissance and close target reconnaissance, CTR operations, and advanced force operations.
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What is SARC (Special Amphibious Reconnaissance Corpsman)
An elite group of special operators tasked with advanced trauma management associated with combatant diving and parachute entry.
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What is Special Reconnaissance
Deployed by means of airborne, maritime, or land-based platforms - deep behind enemy lines to collect and exploit key information, develop targets, and surveil and prepare the battlespace.
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What is CIA GRS (CIA Global Response Staff)
Designed to stay in the shadows, training teams to work undercover and provide an unobtrusive layer of security for CIA officers in high-risk outposts.
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What is Other Government Agency
OGA
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What is the Intelligence Support Activity (ISA, Task Force Orange, The Activity)
An intelligence component of JSOC in the US Army. One of the least known intelligence components of the US military. Tasked with collecting actional intelligence during or prior to JSOC missions. Specialists in Human Intelligence (HUMINT), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Direct Action, and Special Reconnaissance.
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What is EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technicians)
A specialized unit within US Navy Special Warfare trained to render safe all types of ordnance, including improvised, chemical, biological, and nuclear. Tasked with land and underwater location, identification, render-safe, and recovery of foreign and domestic ordnance.
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What is TACP (Tactical Air Control Party)
Airforce Special Warfare specialists that imbed with conventional Army and Marine units on the frontline with the responsibility of calling in airstrikes.
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What is NSA Scorpian Program
A force made up of security contractors, many of whom have a distinguished background in the U.S. Special Operations community designed to provide covert protection for NSA technicians on the ground in hostile areas.
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