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Capable) MFP-11................Major Force Program 11 MILF..........Moro Islamic Liberation Front MIO........maritime interdiction operations MIST ...Mobile Information Support Team MiTT ....................military transition team MND.......................multi-national division MSS ............................mission support site MTT...........................mobile training team N NA ..................................Northern Alliance NATO .................Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization NAVSOF ......................U. S. Naval Special Operations Forces NAVSPECWARCOM............Naval Special Warfare Command NCO .....................noncommissioned officer NEO...................noncombatant evacuation operation NGO ..........nongovernmental organization NORTHCOM......U.S. Northern Command NSW........................Naval Special Warfare NSW-RIB................Naval Special Warfare Rigid Inflatable Boat NSWTG ..................Naval Special Warfare Task Group NSWU............Naval Special Warfare Unit O ODA .........Operational Detachment-Alpha ODB .........Operational Detachment-Bravo OEF Operation ENDURING FREEDOM OEF-P Operation ENDURING FREEDOM- Philippines OEF-TS...Operation ENDURING FREEDOM- Trans-Sahara OG...................................Opposition Group OIF ..............Operation IRAQI FREEDOM O/IFT ......................operations/intelligence fusion team OP......................................observation post OPCON .........................operational control OPE .....................Operational Preparation of the Environment OPLAN ............................Operational Plan OPTEMPO .....................operational tempo OSD.........................Office of the Secretary of Defense P PACOM...................U.S. Pacific Command PAO.............................Public Affairs Office PC .........................................Patrol Coastal PDF ......................Panama Defense Forces 147 PDM...........Program Decision Memoranda PERSTEMPO ...................personnel tempo PJ ..................................pararescue jumper PME..........professional military education POB....Psychological Operations Battalion POG..........Psychological Operations Group POM......Program Objective Memorandum PPBS ...................Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System PRT .........Provincial Reconstruction Team PSYOP .................psychological operations PT.....................................physical training PVO .........Private Volunteer Organization Q QDR .............Quadrennial Defense Review QRF..............................quick reaction force R RC ..................................regional command RFF................................Request for Forces RGR BN...........................Ranger Battalion RHIB ...................rigid hull inflatable boat RIB ..............................rigid inflatable boat RMTC ..............Regional Military Training Center RPG.....................rocket-propelled grenade S SAM...........................surface-to-air missile SAS ............Special Air Service (Australia) SASC......................Senate Armed Services Committee SASO.......stability and support operations SATCOM ............satellite communications SAW ....................squad automatic weapon SCSO ..........Center for Special Operations SCUD ....................................Soviet missile SEAL.......................................sea, air, land (NAVSOF team member) SES......................Senior Executive Service SF...............................special forces (Army) SFG (A)...Special Forces Group (Airborne) SFLE........Special Forces Liaison Element SFOR ............................Stabilization Force SIO....................Senior Intelligence Officer SLE ............SOUTHCOM Liaison Element SOAL ..........Center for Special Operations Acquisition and Logistics SOAR (A) .......Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) SOC.............Special Operations Command SOCCE........Special Operations Command Communications Element SOCCENT ....................Special Operations
Command, Central SOCEUR....Special Operations Command, Europe SOCIFOR....Special Operations Command Implementation Force SOCPAC ....Special Operations Command, Pacific SOCS.............Chief of Staff and Command Support Center SOCSOUTH..................Special Operations Command, South SOF ...................Special Operations Forces SOG ...................Special Operations Group SOIO................Center for Intelligence and Information Operations SOKF ................Center for Knowledge and Futures SOLE ...............Special Operations Liaison Element SONC..................Center for Networks and Communications SOOP............Center for Operations, Plans and Policy SORDAC......Special Operations Research, Development, and Acquisition Center SORR ..............Center for Force Structure, Requisitions, Resources, and Strategic Assessments SOS ..............Special Operations Squadron SOS-T.............Special Operations Surgical Team SOTAC............Special Operations Tactical Air Controller SOUTHCOM ......U.S. Southern Command SOW ....................Special Operations Wing SR............................special reconnaissance SSE ....................sensitive site exploitation STRATCOM........U.S. Strategic Command STS .....................Special Tactics Squadron SWAT .............special weapons and tactics T TACON ................................tactical control TACP ...................tactical air control party TDC ...............................theater deployable communications system TF .................................................task force TIC....................................troops in contact TLAM........Tomahawk land attack missile TOR ..............................Terms of Reference TSCTI .....................Trans-Sahara Counter Terrorist Initiative TSOC ..............Theater Special Operations Command TST-W ......Time Sensitive Targeting West TU..................................................task unit U UAV.....................unmanned aerial vehicle UBL ................................Usama bin Laden UCK .....................Kosovo Liberation Army UCP.......................Unified Command Plan UK.....................................United Kingdom UN.......................................United Nations UNOSOM .............UN Operations Somalia UNSC.........................UN Security Council U.S. .......................................United States USAF ....................................U.S. Air Force USAID...........U.S. Agency for International Development USASFC.... ........U.S. Army Special Forces Command USASOC U.S. Army Special Operations Command USCINCSOC Commander inChief, U.S. Special Operations Command USN.............................................U.S. Navy USREDCOM.....U.S. Readiness Command USS ...............................................U.S. ship USSF ...............U.S. Special Forces (Army) USSOCOM ..........U. S. Special Operations Command USSOUTHCOM...U.S. Southern Command USSTRATCOM . U.S. Strategic Command UW ........................unconventional warfare Y Y2K..............................................Year 2000 TERMS 9/11: Month/day terrorists attacked the World Trade Centers (Twin Towers), September 11, 2001. Caliphate: An Islamic federal government. cuartel: A small garrison. ECOMOG: A Nigerian-led African peacekeeping force headquartered in Monrovia in 1998. Fedayeen: An irregular force of soldiers loyal to Saddam. Jihad: A Muslim holy war. Operational Preparation of the Environment: To prepare and shape the environment in support of future operations. penetrometer: A device for measuring the penetrability of semi-solids. Peshmerga: Kurdish freedom fighters. 148
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HISTORY 6th Edition
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1968 - The future home of U.S. Stri
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General James J. Lindsay accepting
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Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA) Senator Wil
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USSOCOM Commanders There have been
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the impact on its people, the comma
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Mission and Organization USSOCOM’
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Logistics (SOAL). Finally, the Chie
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During the review process for the 2
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HQ USSOCOM Organization Chart 2006
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greatly improved the command’s ab
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(7) JMISC continued to provide PSYO
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USSOCOM’s MFP-11. By FY 2006, the
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forming its acquisition functions a
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nature were key goals in addition t
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COMMANDER’S TOP PRIORITIES FOR FY
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President George W. Bush signed the
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Iran Ajr, caught laying mines, was
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The invasion of Panama, known as Op
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Capturing Torrijos/Tocumen was cruc
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ful seizure of the Torrijos/Tocumen
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second pass, one pilot saw movement
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Harbor by having SEALs place demoli
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BLACK elements returned to Albrook
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Noriega’s Surrender: After his ap
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joint training with NSWTG small boa
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Special Tactics Teams train during
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Schwarzkopf that he and AFSOCCENT w
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SCUD hunting patrol in western Iraq
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In January 1981, the FMLN (Farabund
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HOPE. On 12 January 1993, a Special
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missions into Mogadishu, all of whi
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Haiti had endured unremitting polit
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of Haiti. These themes stressed nat
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In the early 1990s, rival ethnic st
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what they had done for JOINT ENDEAV
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Kosovo Operation ALLIED FORCE NATO
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Peace Operations and Crisis Respons
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In conjunction with the UN, the Org
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Special Forces soldiers train Niger
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Operation SILVER ANVIL Noncombatant
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second patrol coastal vessel, USS F
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Operation FIRM RESPONSE, ESAT vehic
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In Phase II, the relief phase, CA s
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No other international donor has ma
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flooded and damaged areas, signific
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government, so the “lead agency
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Objective Rhino, a desert landing s
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Page 109 and 110: not designed to form a JSOTF. DAGGE
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Page 127 and 128: TEXACO) and metering and manifold s
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Page 133 and 134: with Iraqi police units. SOF have c
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Page 139 and 140: Operation ENDURING FREEDOM Trans-Sa
Page 141 and 142: Training in Yemen In December 2005,
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Page 153 and 154: Guatemala: 75 H Haditha: 127, 129 H
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