* 2004 – Aaron Bank, American Office of Strategic Services officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces ( b. 1902 )

* 1963 – Xá Lợi Pagoda raids: the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalizes Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.

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The Maroon beret is a symbol of the South African Special Forces Brigade and the South African 44 Parachute Regiment.

* In the movie Wag the Dog, the fictitious unit 303 Special Forces has a song created titled " The Men of the 303 " that is played to a deliberately similar but original tune written by Huey Lewis for the film.

The BSA is inspired by the French Special Forces.

Outside the Fuerza Pública, there is a small Special Forces Unit, the Unidad Especial de Intervencion ( UEI ) or Special Intervention Unit, which trains with special forces of Israel, and its namesake in Spain and other democratic nations, but is not part of the main police forces.

Image: US forces Operation Enduring Freedom. jpg | United States Army Special Forces on horseback with the Northern Alliance of Afghanistan, which frequently used horses as military transport.

Montagnard fighters armed with crossbows proved a highly valuable asset to the US Special Forces operating in Vietnam, and it was not uncommon for the Green Berets to integrate Montagnard crossbowmen into their strike teams.

On 15 February 2008 Serbian Minister of Defence Dragan Sutanovac was pictured testing a Barnett crossbow during a public exercise of the Serbian army's Special Forces in Nis, 200 km south of capital Belgrade.

Remnants of the Guard later formed groups such as the Fifteenth of September Legion, the Anti-Sandinista Guerrilla Special Forces, and the National Army of Liberation.

US Special Forces in Vietnam like the Green Berets, also caused significant local problems for their opponents by their leadership and integration with mobile tribal and irregular forces.

* Gene therapy is a crucial plot element in the video game Metal Gear Solid, where it has been used to illegally enhance the battle capabilities of soldiers within the US military, and their Next Generation Special Forces units.

*-Mainly 601st Special Forces Group.

*-Mainly 5th Special Forces Regiment.

* 2003 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.

A US Army Special Forces operator, fresh from three weeks of combat, then gave up his bed so that the wounded Lindh could sleep there.

In addition, US Special Operations Forces conducted Iris Gold rotations to train and assist other Kuwaiti military units

Later in 1926, the Lebanese First Sharp Shooters Unit was created out of the Special Troops of the Levant ; it is considered to be a direct precursor to the Lebanese Armed Forces ( LAF ).

The Lebanese Special Forces are the elite of the Lebanese army, those who enroll are subjected to rigorous training regimes and must be in peak physical and mental condition prior to their ascension to such a highly desired position.

Each branch of the Armed Forces consist of their own form of Special Forces or Commandos.

The Lebanese Special Forces are also well known for killing and eating snakes with their bare hands at graduation ceremonies.

* Special Forces School

In October 2002, the Combined Task Force 150 and United States military Special Forces established themselves in Djibouti at Camp Lemonnier.

The operation was carried out by elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, the U. S. special forces groups TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, the Norwegian Forsvarets Spesialkommando ( FSK ), Hærens Jegerkommando and Marinejegerkommandoen, Canada's 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Canada's Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and of the New Zealand Special Air Service.

Operations began in mid-2002 at Camp Lemonier by a Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force ( CJSOTF ) augmented by support forces from Fort Stewart, Fort Hood, and Fort Story.

CJTF-HOA comprised approximately 2, 000 personnel including U. S. military and Special Operations Forces ( SOF ), and coalition force members, Combined Task Force 150 ( CTF-150 ).

DevGru fell under Task Force Blue, while Naval Special Warfare Group 2 composed the entirety of Task Force White.

Subsequent SEAL operations during the invasion of Afghanistan were conducted within Task Force K-Bar, a joint special operations unit of Army Special Forces, United States Air Force Special Tactics Teams, and special operations forces from Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Denmark, Norway, and Turkey, under the command of Navy SEAL Captain Robert Harward.

The Teams deploy as Naval Special Warfare Squadrons or Special Operations Task Forces and can deploy anywhere in the world.

Squadrons will normally be deployed and fall under a Joint Task Force ( JTF ) or a Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force ( CJSOTF ) as a Special Operations Task Force ( SOTF ).

The operation was composed of elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, TF Rakkasan, B Co. 159th Avn Rgt, 75th Ranger Regiment, the US Special Operation Forces groups to include elements of forces from USSOCOM, JSOC and CIA's Special Activities Division, TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, Canada's 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, the Turkish Maroon Berets, the Norwegian FSK and Marinejegerkommandoen, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment, the New Zealand Special Air Service and Danish special forces from Jægerkorpset and the Danish Frogman Corps.

instruction on military problem solving ; classical and contemporary military theory and history ; Army and joint doctrine ; the fundamentals of operational planning ; battle dynamics ; division, corps, and Joint Task Force ( JTF ) operations ; the operational theory and practice ; air, sea and Special Operations Forces ( SOF ) operations ; contemporary military operations ; and the application of national elements of power.

He created a " Special Task Force for Music " ( Sonderstab Musik ) to collect the best musical instruments and scores for use in a university to be built in Hitler's home town of Linz, Austria.

Called the " 1st Airborne Task Force ", the force was composed of the 1st Special Services Forces, British 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade, the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team, the 509th and 551st Parachute Infantry Battalions, the glider-borne 550th Airborne Infantry Battalion, and supporting units.

Immediately behind the first landings the Special Engineer Task Force was to land with the mission of clearing and marking lanes through the beach obstacles.

Mr. Devey's new responsibilities are in addition to those of his present post as marketing manager of Sprague's Special Products Group, which manufactures a wide line of digital electronic components, packaged component assemblies, and high temperature magnet wires.

Bluetooth is managed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, which has more than 16, 000 member companies in the areas of telecommunication, computing, networking, and consumer electronics.

The Bluetooth Innovation World Cup, a marketing initiative of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group ( SIG ), is an international competition encouraging the development of innovations for applications leveraging the Bluetooth low energy wireless technology in sports, fitness and health care products.

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group ( SIG ) is the body that oversees the development of Bluetooth standards and the licensing of the Bluetooth technologies and trademarks to manufacturers.

The East Pakistan military personnel were trained in combat diving, demolitions, and guerrilla / anti-guerrilla tactics by the advisers from the Special Service Group ( Navy ) who were also charged with intelligence data collection and management cycle.

The joint special operations were managed and undertaken by the Naval Special Service Group ( SSG ( N )) who were assisted by the army, air force and marines unit.

* Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval

* ACM SIGIR: Information Retrieval Special Interest Group

Under the PSI, a 10th Special Forces Group training team carried out a one week border monitoring training programme in January 2004.

The Northern Alliance, aided by a joint Special Operations team consisting of Green Berets from the 5th Special Forces Group, aircrew members from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment ( SOAR ), and Air Force Combat Controllers, fought against the Taliban.

The specification can be purchased from the PCI Special Interest Group ( PCI-SIG ).

During this time, Musharraf maintained his friendship and contact with Mirza through letters and telephones even in difficult times when Mirza, after joining the Navy Special Service Group, was stationed in East-Pakistan as a military advisor to East Pakistan Army.

Shortly after the end of the War of 1965, he joined the elite Special Service Group ( SSG ) and trained together with then-lieutenant Shahid Karimullah ( later four-star admiral ) in a joint operation.

( The training operation was designated Operation Focus Relief and involved U. S. Army Special Forces from 3rd Special Forces Group training a number of West African battalions, including Nigerian ones.

* Symposium on Applied Computing, an annual conference sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing

SIGGRAPH ( short for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques ) is the name of the annual conference on computer graphics ( CG ) convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization.

A group of silver stars being awarded to the 3rd Special Forces Group.

After his first tour of duty, Kelly retired from the service, but is later re-hired by the Central Intelligence Agency's ( CIA ) Special Activities Division ( Special Operations Group ) for another mission in Vietnam.

Though no other visual details are given, a comment made by Lieutenant Colonel Daniel " Bear " Malloy in Rainbow Six indicated that at least some of the Ryanverse Special Operations community had heard of the red seal tattoo and understood that it was associated with the Third Special Operations Group ( SOG ), with whom Clark served during the Vietnam War.