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Detachment A also known as 7781 Army Unit, and 39th Special Forces Operational Detachment was a specialised unit within the 10th Special Forces Group founded in 1956 and based in Bad Tölz, West Germany later West Berlin. [1] It consisted of approximately 90 members and operated primarily in Berlin. [2]
Detachment A or the 39th Special Forces Operational Detachment (SFOD), was a top secret clandestine US Army Special Forces unit that operated undercover in Cold War Berlin from 1956 to 1984.
Gradually, the unit did become more Americanized as the Cold War progressed and World War Two veterans began to age. The unit was called Detachment A, with the then classified name of 39th Special Forces Operational Detachment (SFOD), a clandestine Special Forces unit.
Information derived from the U.S. Army Center of Military History, current as of 5 July 2006. Constituted 27 August 1965 in the Regular Army as the 39th Special Forces Detachment, 1st Special Forces. Activated 1 September 1965 in Germany. Inactivated 1 October 1984 in Germany.
Detachment A, also known by its classified name – the 39th Special Forces Operational Detachment – was formed in August 1956 from carefully screened and selected members of the 10th Special ...
The unit was called Detachment A, with the classified name of 39 th Special Forces Operational Detachment (SFOD). It was a clandestine Special Forces unit. Technically illegal under...
The unit was called Detachment A, with the classified name of 39 th Special Forces Operational Detachment (SFOD). It was a clandestine Special Forces unit. Technically illegal under the Four Powers Agreement, Det A was on 24-hour standby in Berlin in the event that the USSR pushed over the wall from East Germany and invaded Western Europe.
Detachment A, also known by its classified name – the 39th Special Forces Operational Detachment – was formed in August 1956 from carefully screened and selected members of the 10th Special...
The 39th Special Forces Detachment (Airborne), 1st Special Forces Regiment primarily helps train Republic of Korea special warfare units in specialized tactics, techniques, and...
39th Special Forces Detachment, 1st Special Forces Lineage. Constituted 27 August 1965 in the Regular Army as the 39th Special Forces Detachment, 1st Special Forces. Activated 1...