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The 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) (5th SFG (A), 5th Group) is one of the most decorated active duty United States Army Special Forces groups. The 5th SFG (A) saw extensive action in the Vietnam War and played a pivotal role in the early months of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Operational Detachment Alpha 574 is a part of the United States Army's Third Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group.At the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom it operated in Afghanistan to help defeat the Taliban and create conditions for the establishment of a democratic government in Afghanistan.
Blue Light was an American counter-terrorist subunit of the 5th Special Forces Group that existed into the late 1970s. [1]According to Colonel Charles Beckwith's memoirs, this counter-terrorist group was formed by U.S. Army Special Forces leadership to fill an important counter-terrorism gap until Delta Force became operational.
Project GAMMA was the name given in 1968 to Detachment B-57, Company E (Special Operations), 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) (5th SFG(A)) in Vietnam from 1967 to 1970. It was responsible for covert intelligence collection operations in Cambodia. The teams were highly effective at locating Viet Cong operations in Cambodia, leading to their ...
(Part of 15th Army Group) United States Fifth Army – (Lieutenant General Mark Clark) U.S. II Corps – (Major General Geoffrey Keyes) U.S. 34th Infantry Division – (Major General Charles L. Bolte) U.S. 88th Infantry Division – (Major General John E. Sloan) U.S. 91st Infantry Division – (Major General William G. Livesay)
1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Joint Base Lewis–McChord, Washington. 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Liberty, North Carolina. 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Eglin AFB, Florida. 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Carson, Colorado
Robert Rheault was born October 31, 1925, to Charles Auguste and Rosamond (née Bradley) Rheault in Westwood, a suburb of Boston.His father had served with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was stationed in Labrador where he met Rosamond Bradley, from a prominent Boston family, who had been working at the Grenfell Medical Mission prior to immigrating to the United States in 1924.
Gritz began his military career when he enlisted in the Army on August 20, 1957 and attended Officer Candidate School (OCS). During the Vietnam War, Gritz commanded detachment "B-36" of the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne). [6] [7] This detachment was a mixed American and Cambodian-Vietnamese MIKE Force composed predominantly of local ...