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'Wefcome
to
9-11
Commission
Delegation
28
April
2004
 
U.S.
Special Operations
Command
U.
S.
Special
Operations Command
is one of
nine
unified
commands
in the U. S.
military's combatant com-mand structure. The
formation
of the command was aresult of the
Nunn-Cohen
Amendment to the National
Defense
Authorization Act. The command, located at
MacDill
AFB,
Fla.,
was activated April
16,1987.
U.
S.Special Operations Command
(USSOCOM)
consists
ofsome 46,000 Army, Navy
and Air
Force
special
operations
forces (SOF)
—
active
and
reserve
— who are
organized into
a
variety
of
land,
sea and
aerospaceforces,
including:
•
U.S. Army Special Forces,
the
75th Ranger Regiment,
the
160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne),psychological operations units and civil
affairs
units.
• U. S.
Navy SEALs(Sea-Air-Land
forces),
special boat units
and
SEAL
delivery units.• U. S. Air Force special operationssquadrons
(fixed
and
rotary wing),special tactics squadrons, a foreigninternal defense squadron, and a combatweather squadron.
U.
S. Special Operations Command provideshighly
trained,
rapidly
deployable
and
regionally
focused
SOF personnel in
support
of
global
requirements
from
the
Secretary
of
Defense,
thecombatant commanders
and our
Americanambassadors
and
their country
teams.
Theenduring, overarching
purposes
of SOF
are
derived
from
historical
experience,congressional
legislation
and
evolving
security environment.
 
Principal
Missions
COUNTERPROLIFERAT1QN
OF
WEAPONSOF
MA^S
DESTRUCTION:Actions taken to seize,
destroy,
capture or
recover
weapons of
massdestruction.
—
 ——
 "^*"*^
CIVIL
AFFAIRS-
Activities
that
establish,
maintain,
influence
or
exploit
relations betweenmilitary forces
and
civilauthorities and the civilianpopulation to facilitatemilitary operations.
DIRECT
ACTION:Short-duration strikes and othersmall-scale actionstoseize, destroy,capture, recover or inflict damage todesignated personnel or material.COMBATTING
TERRORISM-
Actions including antiterrorism
(defensive
measures taken
to
reduce vulnerability to terrorist
acts)
and
counterterrorism
(offensive
measures taken
to
prevent, deterandrespondtoterrorism) taken to oppose
terrorism
throughout the entire
threat
spectrum.
SPECIAL
RECONNAlSSAKtf-.F-Actions
to
obtain
or verify,
by
visualobservation
orother
collection
methods, information
concemng
the
capabilities, intentions,andactivities
of
an
actual
or
potential enemy;
or
to secure data concerning thecharacteristics of a particular
area.
PSYCHQLQGICAI OPFRATIOM.g
Operations
to
convey selected informationto foreign audiences to induce or reinforceforeign
attitudes
andbehaviors
favorableto the originator's objectives.
UNCONVENTIONAI
WARFARF-
Support to military and para-militaryoperations, normally of long duration,predominantly conducted by indigenous
or
surrogate forces. It includes
guerrilla
warfare
and other offensive
low-visibility
operations.
FOREIGN INTFRNAI
DEFENSE:
Participation by civilian and
military
agencies of agovernmentin any of
the
action programs taken
by
another government to freeand protect its society fromsubversion, lawlessness,
and
insurgency.INFORMATION
OPERATIONS-
Actions taken
to
achieve
information superiority in
support of
national
mBitary
strategy
by
affecting adversary
information
systems
white
leveraging
and
protecting
U.
S. information andinformation
systems.
Collateral Activities
COALITION
SUPPORT
COMBAT
SEARCH AND RESCUE
COUNTER
DRUG ACTIVITIES
COUNTER
MINE
ACTIVITIES
HUMANITARIAN
ASSISTANCE
SECURITY
ASSISTANCE
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