United States Army Special Operations Command
| United States Army Special Operations Command (Airborne) | |
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Distinctive unit insignia (DUI) of U.S. Army Special Operations Command Headquarters
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| Founded | December 1, 1989 |
| Country |
 United States of America |
| Branch |
 United States Army
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| Type | Special warfare operations |
| Role | Organize, train, educate, man, equip, fund, administer, mobilize, deploy and sustain U.S. Army special operations forces to successfully conduct worldwide special warfare operations. |
| Size |
33,805 personnel authorized:
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| Part of |
 U.S. Special Operations Command
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| Headquarters | Fort Bragg, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Motto(s) | "Sine Pari" (Without Equal) |
| Engagements |
Invasion of Panama War in Afghanistan Iraq War |
| Website | Official Website |
| Commanders | |
| Current commander |
LTG Kenneth E. Tovo |
| Insignia | |
| Combat service identification badge |
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| Unit beret flash |
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| Former DUI (1990-2011) |
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33,805 personnel authorized:
Invasion of Panama
Persian Gulf War
Unified Task Force
Operation Gothic Serpent
The United States Army Special Operations Command (Airborne) (USASOC) is the command charged with overseeing the various special operations forces of the United States Army. Headquartered at Fort Bragg, NC, it is the largest component of the United States Special Operations Command. Its mission is to organize, train, educate, man, equip, fund, administer, mobilize, deploy and sustain Army special operations forces to successfully conduct worldwide special operations.
Established in 1952, the U.S. Army Special Forces Command (Airborne), also known as the Green Berets, was established as a special operations force of the United States Army tasked with five primary missions: unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance, direct action, and counter-terrorism. These missions make special forces unique in the U.S. military, because they are employed throughout the three stages of the operational continuum: peacetime, conflict and war.
Today's Special Forces Groups and their unconventional warfare capabilities provide a viable military option for a variety of operational taskings that are inappropriate or infeasible for conventional forces, making it the U.S. military’s premier unconventional warfare force.
Often SF units are required to perform additional, or collateral, activities outside their primary missions. These collateral activities are coalition warfare/support, combat search and rescue, security assistance, peacekeeping, humanitarian assistance, humanitarian de-mining and counter-drug operations.
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