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Latest ARSOF Special Warfare Issue

The latest (60-age pdf) spring 2024 edition of Special Warfare is available for download.

This issue of The Official Professional Journal of U.S. Army Special Operations Forces is entitled “How ARSOF Fights, An Irregular Approach to the Competition Continuum.”

One particularly interesting article by Maj. Brandon Schwartz, SF’s Underwater Operations commander, covers ARSOF’s MAROPs maritime operations.

Keep in mind that each company within a Special Forces Group mans, trains, equips, and deploys a 12-man SFUWO (Special Forces Underwater Operations) ODA, a mission skillset they have maintained since the 1950s– long before the SEALs were around.

With seven SFGs, each with four battalions, each with three companies, that gives you a rough TOE for 84 SFUWO ODAs, or a little over 1,000 combat divers, which is a serious force. One that few outside of Key West know about.

Dat bayonet, doe

You have to admit the PEQ-15, bayonet and mono-pod forward grip combo on an old-school M16 with a steel mag warms your heart

SOUTHWEST ASIA (Sept. 17, 2015) U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Jonathan Ripoyla moves to his next firing position during a bi-lateral training exercise. Ripoyla is a rifleman with India Company, Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit. The 15th MEU, embarked aboard the ships of the Essex Amphibious Ready Group, is a forward-deployed, flexible sea-based Marine air-ground task force capable of engaging with regional partners and maintaining regional security. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Jamean Berry/Released)

SOUTHWEST ASIA (Sept. 17, 2015) U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Jonathan Ripoyla moves to his next firing position during a bi-lateral training exercise. Ripoyla is a rifleman with India Company, Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit. The 15th MEU, embarked aboard the ships of the Essex Amphibious Ready Group, is a forward-deployed, flexible sea-based Marine air-ground task force capable of engaging with regional partners and maintaining regional security. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Jamean Berry/Released)