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7,290 Days: A Salute to the ARSOF Fallen of the Post-9/11 Era
Mr S. Krista Simpson-Anderson, speaking at USASOC’s 9/11 ceremony.
Command Sergeant Major Richard C. Lamb
Brigadier General Cornelius Wendell Wickersham
Colonel Louis G. Mason
Colonel Heber Blankenhorn
Lieutenant General William P. Yarborough
Lieutenant General Samuel V. Wilson
Brigadier General Russell W. Volckmann
Major General John G. Van Houten
Lieutenant Colonel Mayo S. Stuntz
Colonel Arthur D. ‘Bull’ Simons
Colonel Jack T. Shannon
Colonel Jay D. Vanderpool
Major General James E. Rudder
Major General John K. Singlaub
Colonel James N. ‘Nick’ Rowe
Lieutenant Colonel Henry A. Mucci
Major General Frank D. Merrill
Major General Sidney Shachnow
Brigadier General John Hugh McGee
Major General Robert A. McClure
Colonel Charles R. Munske
Brigadier General Charles H. Karlstad
Colonel Jeffrey B. Jones
Major Richard J. ‘Dick’ Meadows
Colonel Irwin L. Hunt
Command Sergeant Major Galen Kittleson
Brigadier General William O. Darby
Colonel Charles H. Fry
Colonel Charles N. Hunter
Major General James D. Bryan
Lieutenant General Dell L. Dailey
Colonel Charles Alvin Beckwith
General Bryan D. Brown
Major Raymond P. Ambrozak
Colonel Aaron Bank
Sergeant Major Tyrone J. Adderly
Major General Robert T. Frederick
Chief Warrant Officer 5 David F. Cooper
Brigadier General Donald Dunwoody Blackburn
Lieutenant Colonel Leif Bangsboll
Phase I: United Nations (UN) Defensive
Phase II: UN Offensive
Phase III: Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) Intervention
Phase IV: First UN Counteroffensive/CCF Spring Offensive
Phase V: Stabilization of the Lines through the Armistice
Medal of Honor History
CPT Paris D. Davis
SFC Christopher A. Celiz
SSG Earl D. Plumlee
1LT Ralph Puckett, Jr.
SSG Leroy A. Petry
MSG Gary I. Gordon
SGT Gary M. Rose
SGT Gary B. Beikirch
SSG Melvin Morris
SP4 Robert D. Law
SP5 John J. Kedenburg
SFC Eugene Ashley, Jr.
MSG Charles E. Hosking, Jr.
SSG Ronald J. Shurer II
1LT Charles Q. Williams
SFC Randall D. Shughart
SSG Jon R. Cavaiani
SGT Brian L. Buker
SSG Robert J. Pruden
SFC William M. Bryant
SSG Laszlo Rabel
SFC Fred W. Zabitosky
SGT Gordon D. Yntema
SFC Bennie G. Adkins
1LT Jack L. Knight
SGT Matthew O. Williams
SSG Robert J. Miller
1LT Loren D. Hagen
SFC Gary L. Littrell
SSG Franklin D. Miller
SFC Jose Rodela
1LT Robert L. Howard
SSG Roy P. Benavidez
SSG Drew D. Dix
1LT George K. Sisler
CPT Roger H. C. Donlon
About Colonel Andrew R. Morgan
The Evolution of the USASOC DUI: 1988-Present
To Baghdad And Beyond: ARSOF in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
Ensuring Relevance: The USASOC History Office in 2023
“You Have Arrived”: 1st Special Operations Command and the Birth of Modern U.S. Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF)
A Normandy Surprise: USASOC leadership visits Normandy to participate in the commemoration of the 79th anniversary of D-Day
“A Final Memorial”: Special Forces Honors John F. Kennedy
“Based on an Actual Event”: The Battle of Mogadishu in Popular Culture
Major General Eldon A. Bargewell: Coastal Washington Town Celebrates the Life of a Hometown Hero
TOE vs. TDA: What is the Difference?
ARSOF Lineage or Legacy: Which is the Right Word?
Indomitable Valor: Special Forces Heroism during Tet Offensive
Silent Eagle 2011: Strengthening the U.S.-Japan Partnership
Sine Pari: “Without Equal”
The Evolution of the Special Forces (SF) Operational Detachment-Alpha (ODA)
“ANOTHER TYPE OF WARFARE”: U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s Address to the West Point Class of 1962
From “irregular warfare” to Irregular Warfare: History of a Term
Building the Airplane in Flight: PSYOP in Operation DESERT SHIELD, Part 2
70 Years and Counting: U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School
The 75th Ranger Regiment: Distinctive Unit Insignia
Honoring an ARSOF Legend: Major General Robert T. Frederick
The ARSOF Story: US Army Special Operations History
Rising from the Ashes
Beyond the Numbers
From Hangar to Housing
From a Great Height: Helicopter Recovery at Takur Ghar
Spreading the Word Fast: PSYOP in Operation JUST CAUSE
Commando & Ranger Training, Part III: Forging Junior Leaders to Toughen Men to Win in Combat
A Team Approach: PSYOP and LRA Defection in 2012
Recognizing “Combat Divers”: A History of Army Special Operations Diver Badges
A Team Approach: PSYOP and LRA Defection in 2012
Preface to A Team Approach: PSYOP and LRA Defection in 2012
“The First Step in Night Stalking”
Form follows function
Michael L. Kunik
Psywar Leaflets from the Korean War
Building El Salvador’s Airborne
A Special Forces Model
Major General Robert A. McClure
Training on a Shoestring
“Timing Is Everything”
Wings Over Burma
A Second Chance
‘Stop the Radio Nacional Broadcasts’
Alamo Scouts Diary
“No Ordinary Signal Unit”
The 2nd Ranger Battalion
The Knollwood Maneuver
Field Sanitation
Allied Long Range Penetration Groups for Burma
The Bolivia Mission
Creating A Demigod
The Sixties in America
Fighting Through the “Fog of War”
Introduction: Special Forces in Bolivia
A Special Forces Model
Biet Dong Quan
“This Vest May Save Your Life!”
The Aftermath
America’s Foreign Legionnaires
Civil Affairs Supports the Assault
Che's Posse
“Wars should be fought in better country than this”
Evolution of ARSOF Communications
“Welcome to Bolivia, MTT-BL 404-67X”
From Omaha Beach to the Rhine
Operation BAAZ TSUKA
The ‘Haves and Have Nots’
A History of the United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School Insignia
Operation COTTAGE
The 1960s
VALIANT 41
Donald D. Blackburn
Charles H. Fry
A Clearer View of Psywar at Fort Riley & Fort Bragg
Fighting Through the “Fog of War”
Training the Trainers
The A Team Numbering System
The Special Forces Mission to Cochabamba
Beyond The Beach
The Price of Stabilization
Turning the Tables on Che
America’s Foreign Legionnaires
The Ivanhoe Security Force in Korea, 1950
“Today a New Stage Begins”
History in the “Raw”
“Volunteering” for Combat
Che Guevara
From the Yak & Yetito Port-au-Prince
Born of Desperation
Beggar on a Throne of Gold
Battle Without Bullets
Lorenzo Ghiglieri
Bona Fides: Personnel files of Special Forces pioneer Major Herbert R. Brucker
The Trojan Horse Badge
Republic of Korea General Paik Sun-yup
SORT(ing) Out the Casualties
Civilian Irregular Defense Group
“That D****d Dam”
Operation BOSTON
“Do What You Can!”
8th Ranger Company
“Colonel Mike”
The U. N. Occupation of P"yongyang
Smoke Bomb Hill
The 77TH SFG Mission to South Vietnam
Eighth Army Rangers
1st Radio Broadcasting and Leaflet (1st RB&L) Group Products for Korea
A Legacy of Support
25 July 1950
Dick Zayac
A Clearer View of Psywar at Fort Riley & Fort Bragg, 1951-1952
GHQ Raider Monument
Harris Presses & Psywar Leaflets
A Collective Effort
“When Men Don’t Panic”
Top Priority RB&L Missions
Over the Hills and Far Away
The 2nd Ranger Infantry Company
Rebuilding Psywar
A Giant Enters the Battle
“Cold Steel Third”
We’re Asking the Reds to SURRENDER-PLEASE!
A Civil Affairs Pioneer
The Refugee Evacuation from Hungnam
FEAF’s Humanitarian Bombing Campaign in Korea
GHQ Raiders
The “Proper Ganders”
4th MRBC in Japan & Korea
War in the Land of the Morning Calm
From a Standing Start
Radio Pusan
A Highly Praised Luxury
The General Staff System
Working with what you have
“Travel Light and Freeze at Night”
The 1st RB&L Advance Tackles Far East Command Priorities
John H. McGee
From Hill 710 to “Big Switch”
The Psywar Center
Guerrillas in Their Midst
Rebirth of The Rangers
The May Day Riots
Military Recovery of Downed Airmen in Eastern Korea
Same Organization, Four Different Names
Contrasts in Independence
A Combat First
1st L&L in Korea
Flying High
The Combined Command for Reconnaissance Activities, Korea (CCRAK)
CA/PSYWAR Timeline
Psywar in Korea
Fight for the Northwestern Islands
U.S. Armed Forces Radio Stations in Postwar Japan and Korea
Tactical Liaison Office (TLO)
The Army’s Guerrilla Command in Korea
Rebuilding Psywar
Creating an Army Guerrilla Command
“We’re not in Kansas anymore”
Herbert Avedon
JACK Air Operations
PSYCHE
Right Man for the Job
A Korean War Photo Memoir
Skokoski's Journey
Strategic Psywar 1952
The CCRAK ‘Navy’
Operation Eiche
Postscript
Culture, Language & Special OPS
Task Force Viking
Facets of the U.S. Army Guerrilla Commands in Korea
Major Jay D. Vanderpool
Setting the ‘Rising Sun’
One Guerrilla’s Fight
Closing Acts
A History of Resistance
Kreuzotters on the Loose
The U.S. Army Cultural Support Team Program
JACK Operations & Activities
THE SPECIAL FORCES SOLDIER
Building Generational Relationships
CIA Paramilitary Operations
The 7721st Radio Broadcasting and Leaflet Group
10th SFG Mountain Recovery Operation
Escape & Evasion:
West Coast Aircrew Recovery
and the Guerrilla-Held Islands
A True Force Multiplier
ARSOF in Vietnam
The Insignia of Wolfpack
Major General John Henry Hilldring
The Special Forces Operator
Operation SPITFIRE
Voice of the U.S. and Aggressors
Catalyst For Action
Commando & Ranger Training
Nili Experiment
More than Shoot & Salute
The 6th Ranger Company
There’s No Place Like Home
The OSS Influence on Special Forces
Veritas
The Mayor of P’yongyang
A Commander’s Sense of Duty
PSYCHE
The Good ‘Ole’ Daysof Special Forces
A Different SORT of Mission
CAT 812 in Haiti
Who’s in charge down here?
Vietnam Casualty Resolution
Volare Optimos
Absolute Confidence
Commando & Ranger Training
Congo Rescue
The Path to War in Panama
OPERATION ZUMMARI 241
Rescue at Cabanatuan
Officer ‘Green Platoon’
CJSOTF-A: Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan
A Short History | 2002-2014
Defense Diplomacy
The Raid at Hazar Qadam
What is a Ranger or ARSOF Aviator? What is a Special Forces, PSYOP, Civil Affairs, or ARSOF Support soldier?
MISTF-C In Operation INHERENT RESOLVE
Total Immersion
Operación JAQUE
Shoot & Salute
“Proving the Concept”
Christmas Every Month
The Battle of Lang Vei
JFK Visits Fort Bragg
Enlisted ‘Green Platoon’
Camp Mackall
Victoria Ex Umbra
One Piece of the Puzzle
“If you liked Beirut, you’ll love Mogadishu”*
Night Stalker Ingenuity
Order From Chaos
Joint SOF Integration
Resurrected Again
Operation WILLING SPIRIT (OWS)
A Tale of Two Teams
From Leyte to the Levant
HACC Baghdad
Civil Affairs in Colombia
Conventional Excellence
A Team Effort: Special Forces in Vietnam, June–December 1964
A Team Effort: The Montagnard Uprising of September 1964
Herbert R. Brucker, SF Pioneer
The CG-4A Waco Glider
The Lords of Darkness
Out of Turkey
Attack on the Pleiku Radio Station
A Tale of Two Units
Helicopters in the Korean War
Camp Mackall
Catch as Catch Can
Unique Support for a Unique Unit
The Ganders
“We Badly Needed Something to Do”*
Cannon Company
151st Airborne Tank Company
Rangers in World War II
Frank E. Allen
Night Stalkers in the Philippines
Reaching Out
Key West
SF Detachment 39
Operation VIKING HAMMER
The Special Forces Patch
Barbula and Old Baldy, March 1953
SOF and the Media
The Ganders
ODA 542
“Alarm Red!”
Prisoner for a Day
“The Beer’s On Us!”
Soldier-Sailors in Korea
The Battle for Debecka Crossroads
The Rangers Take Hadithah Dam
Across the Pacific to War
Objective Beaver
Psychological Operations in Baghdad
Wolfpacks and Donkeys
Team Tank
Task Force 160 in Operation URGENT FURY
The Race to Rome
Getting the Message Out
Major Herbert R. Brucker, SF Pioneer
Value Added
Flash to Bang Time—Twenty-two Hours
Supplying the Resistance
Getting There is Half the Battle
The Jump at Objective Serpent
OPATT to PATT: El Salvador to Colombia and the Formation of the Planning and Assistance Training Teams
Holding Back the Flood at Hadithah Dam
Factors Affecting ARSOF
ELN Mines and FARC Mortars
Mass Graves
Logistical Support to Task Force Viking
Forty Years of Insurgency
North by Northwest
Reminiscences of Detachment A
Plan Lazo
This is What You Signed Up For
Major Herbert R. Brucker, SF Pioneer
Plan Colombia and Plan Patriota
Infiltrating Wadi al Khirr Airfield
Los Artefactos Explosivos Improvisados
U.S. Forces
The SOD-JF in Iraq
El Paraiso and the War in El Salvador
Colombia
Airborne Signal
PSYOP in Colombia
The OSS Maritime Unit on the Arakan Coast of Burma
Major Herbert R. Brucker, SF Pioneer
Colombian Military Forces
The Failures of Detachment 101
Amputee Soccer and Prosthetics
Special Forces in Larandia
Afghan Ambush
San Miguel
“Who taught these guys to shoot like Chuck Norris?”
Operation MEDUSA
Blue Helmets to Maroon Berets
Colombian Special Operations Forces
Colombian Lancero School Roots
ARSOF in Colombia
“There is a Word I Need to Learn”
From Ledo to Leeches
“Conducting the Orchestra”
OSS Detachment 404
Colombia’s Troubled Past
Everyone Can Take Pride in This Fight
Of Mules and Men
The End Run of Galahad
Rangers in WWII
Not Just Doing Logistics
Just Cause Interviews
Lieutenant General William P. Yarborough
SSG Keith R. Bishop
SSG Justin R. Whiting
SSG David W. Textor
SGT Nicholas A. Robertson
SFC Jamie S. Nicholas
SFC David L. McDowell
SSG Travis K. Hunsberger
SPC Thomas F. Duncan III
SSG Jason L. Brown
SSG Joshua R. Whitaker
SFC Michael J. Tully
PFC Kristofer D. S. Thomas
CW3 John A. Quinlan
MSG Mitchell W. Young
SFC Justin S. Monschke
SGT James M. Treber
MSG Arthur L. Lilley
SGT William P. Rudd
SGT Keith A. Kline
SFC David Nunez
CPL Jason M. Kessler
SSG Robert J. Miller
SPC Ryan C. Garbs
MAJ Robert D. Lindenau
SFC Bradley S. Bohle
SFC Adrian M. Elizalde
SSG Frank J. Gasper
SSG Jeremy E. Bessa
SGM Bradly D. Conner
SGT Nicholas A. Casey
SFC Gary J. Vasquez
MAJ James M. Ahearn
SGT Adam A. Wilkinson
MSG Shawn E. Simmons
CW5 Jamie D. Weeks
SGT Thomas E. Vandling, Jr
SFC Jeffrey M. Rada Morales
SSG Michael D. Thomas
1SG Carlos N. Saenz
SSG William R. Neil, Jr
SGT James J. Regan
SSG Robert J. Paul
SSG Ryan D. Maseth
SGT Timothy P. Padgett
SGT Alberto D. Montrond
SPC Christopher Gathercole
CW3 Hershel D. McCants, Jr
CPT Shane R. M. Mahaffee
CPT Richard G. Cliff, Jr
SSG Patrick F. Kutschbach
SPC Adam L. Knox
SFC Nathan L. Winder
SFC Jeffrey D. Kettle
SFC Richard J. Herrema
SPC Brandon D. Gordon
SPC Travis R. Vaughn
CW2 Scott W. Dyer
CPT Brian S. Freeman
CPT Benjamin D. Tiffner
SSG Edwin H. DazaChacon
SSG Joseph F. Curreri
SSG Robb L. Rolfing
SSG Kyu H. Chay
MAJ Jeffrey R. Calero
SGT Dale G. M. Brehm
SSG Robert R. Pirelli
SGT Daniel W. Winegeart
SFC Mickey E. Zaun
SFC Sean K. Mitchell
SPC Teodoro Torres
SGT Cheyenne C. Willey
SPC George V. Libby
SSG Ronald L. Paulsen
SSG Ayman A. Taha
SGT Charles B. Kitowski III
SSG Clinton T. Newman
SFC Michael L. Russell
MAJ Alan R. Johnson
MSG Thomas D. Maholic
SGT Regina C. Reali
SGT Steven C. Ganczewski
SSG Christian Longsworth
SGT Jason T. Palmerton
CPL Benjamin C. Dillon
LTC Daniel E. Holland
SFC Pedro A. Munoz
SSG Jesse G. Clowers, Jr
MSG Emigdio E. Elizarraras
MSG Michael L. McNulty
MAJ Matthew W. Worrell
SSG Michael A. Dickinson II
SFC Obediah J. Kolath
SSG Nathan J. Vacho
SFC Lance S. Cornett
SFC Allen C. Johnson
SFC Christopher L. Robinson
SFC William R. Brown
MSG Robert M. Horrigan
SFC Tung M. Nguyen
SGT Dustin M. Adkins
CW3 Corey J. Goodnature
SGT Marco L. Miller
SGT Jeremy R. Wright
MAJ Gregory J. Fester
MAJ Jeffrey P. Toczylowski
2LT Scott B. Lundell
CPT Jeremy A. Chandler
CW4 Chris J. Scherkenbach
SFC Merideth L. Howard
SSG Leroy E. Alexander
MAJ Stephen C. Reich
SFC Chad A. Gonsalves
CPT Michael Y. Tarlavsky
SSG Christopher N. Piper
SSG Carlos Dominguez
SGM Michael B. Stack
SFC Marcus V. Muralles
SFC Daniel B. Crabtree
CPL Jonathan J. Santos
1SG Tobias C. Meister
SSG Eric Caban
SSG Michael G. Owen
SFC Steven M. Langmack
SSG Ricardo Barraza
SGM Robert D. Odell
PFC Dillon M. Jutras
MSG Anthony R. C. Yost
SGT Kip A. Jacoby
SFC Curtis Mancini
SFC Brett E. Walden
SSG Gary R. Harper, Jr
MSG Kelly L. Hornbeck
CPL Timothy M. Shea
PFC Damian J. Garza
SPC Nichole M. Frye
CPT Charles D. Robinson
CPT Daniel W. Eggers
SFC Trevor J. Diesing
MSG James W. Ponder III
MSG Joseph J. Andres, Jr
LTC Anthony L. Sherman
SFC James S. Ochsner
CPL Patrick D. Tillman
MSG Kevin N. Morehead
SFC Lawrence E. Morrison
PFC Nathan E. Stahl
SSG Nino D. Livaudais
CPL George A. Lutz II
SGT Danton K. Seitsinger
CW3 Thomas J. Gibbons
SSG Matthew A. Kimmell
LTC Mark P. Phelan
SSG Timothy M. Conneway
MSG Ivica Jerak
SSG Tony B. Olaes
PFC Charles E. Bush, Jr
PV2 John M. Henderson, Jr
SSG Paul C. Mardis, Jr
CPL Mark A. Bibby
SSG Shamus O. Goare
SPC Joseph A. Jeffries
SSG Christopher M. Falkel
SFC Peter P. Tycz II
SSG Robert S. Goodwin
SSG Bruce A. Rushforth, Jr
SFC Victor H. Cervantes
MSG Richard L. Ferguson
SFC Mark W. Jackson
SGT Roy A. Wood
SSG Paul A. Sweeney
SGT Jeremy D. Foshee
MAJ Paul R. Syverson III
CW3 Mark S. O'Steen
SSG James P. Dorrity
MAJ Charles R. Soltes, Jr
SPC Ryan P. Long
SFC Nathan R. Chapman
SSG Daniel L. Kisling
CW3 Bruce E. Price
PFC Kristofor T. Stonesifer
MSG George A. Fernandez
MAJ Wallace C. Hogan, JR
SGT Michael C. O’Neill
CPL Andrew F. Chris
SFC Robert J. Mogensen
SGT Jay M. Blessing
SPC Adam G. Kinser
SSG Gene A. Vance, Jr
SSG Aaron N. Holleyman
SFC Christopher J. Speer
SGT Bryan L. Freeman, Jr
CPT Bartt D. Owens
CPL William M. Amundson, Jr
CPT Russell B. Rippetoe
SSG Orlando Morales
SFC Mitchell A. Lane
SSG Kerry W. Frith
SSG Gregory M. Frampton
CW2 Jody L. Egnor
1SG Christopher D. Coffin
LTC Charles H. Buehring
CPL Matthew A. Commons
SGT Thomas F. Allison
SFC William M. Bennett
SFC Daniel H. Petithory
SGT Philip J. Svitak
MSG Jefferson D. Davis
SFC Daniel A. Romero
CW2 Stanley L. Harriman
MAJ Curtis D. Feistner
SGT Bradley S. Crose
SPC Marc A. Anderson
SSG Brian C. Prosser
SPC Jonn J. Edmunds
First Special Service Force THE BEGINNING
First Special Service Force AT WAR
First Special Service Force LEGACY
Stickers
First Special Service Force
Special Forces Wing
Ranger Diamond
Memoriams
General Carl W. Stiner
General James J. Lindsay
Lineage and Honors: 1st Special Forces Group
Lineage and Honors: 3rd Special Forces Group
Lineage and Honors: 5th Special Forces Group
Lineage and Honors: 7th Special Forces Group
Lineage and Honors: 10th Special Forces Group
Lineage and Honors: 19th Special Forces Group
Lineage and Honors: 20th Special Forces Group
Lineage and Honors: 39th Special Forces Group