page_title: 1st Special Forces Group (United States)
section_title: Lineage
hierarchical_section_title: 1st Special Forces Group (United States) / Lineage
caption_attribution_description: English: 1st Special Forces Group - New 4-digit numbers ODA
context_page_description: The 1st Special Forces Group is a unit of the Special Forces regiment of the United States Army. It is designed to deploy and execute nine doctrinal missions throughout the Indo-Pacific Command area of operations: unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, direct action, counter-insurgency, special reconnaissance, counter-terrorism, information operations, counterproliferation of weapon of mass destruction, and security force assistance.
context_section_description: Constituted 5 July 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 2nd Company, 1st Battalion, First Regiment, 1st Special Service Force, a combined Canadian-American organization
  Activated 9 July 1942 at Fort William Henry Harrison, Montana
  Disbanded 5 December 1945 in Menton, France
  Reconstituted 15 April 1960 in the Regular army; concurrently consolidated with Company B, 1st Ranger Infantry Battalion (activated 19 June 1942), and consolidated unit re-designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces
  Consolidated 30 September 1960 with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Special Forces Group (constituted 14 June 1957 in the Regular Army and activated 24 June 1957 in Japan), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces (organic units concurrently constituted and activated 4 October 1960)
  Group inactivated 28 June 1974 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
  Activated 4 September 1984 at Fort Lewis, Washington
  (Former Company B, 1st Ranger Infantry Battalion, withdrawn 3 February 1986, consolidated with Company N, 75th Infantry, and consolidated unit re-designated as Company N, 75th Ranger Regiment – hereafter separate lineage)
caption: Current structure of the 1st SFG(A)
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