page_title: 7th Special Forces Group (United States)
hierarchical_section_title: 7th Special Forces Group (United States)
caption_attribution_description: English: A Special Forces soldier, A Co., 1st Bn., 7th Special Forces Group gives an Afghan boy a coloring book in Kandahar Province, during a meeting with local leaders, Sept. 12, 2002. The SF team and Afghan commandos met with religious leaders to gain their support and obtain information about insurgents in the region. Special Forces soldiers, working with Afghan commandos in this region, often wear the Battle Dress Uniform to blend in with their Afghan counterparts. (Photo by Steve Hebert)
context_page_description: The 7th Special Forces Group [7th SFG] is an operational unit of the United States Army Special Forces activated on 20 May 1960. It was reorganized from the 77th Special Forces Group, which was also stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. 7th Group—as it is sometime called—is designed to deploy and execute nine doctrinal missions: 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. The 7th SFG spends much of its time conducting foreign internal defense, counter-drug, and training missions of friendly governments' armed forces in South, Central, and North America as well as the Caribbean. 7th SFG participated in Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada in 1983, and in Operation Just Cause in Panama in 1989. The 7th SFG has, like all the SFGs, been heavily deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in the War on Terror.
context_section_description: The 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) [7th SFG(A)] is an operational unit of the United States Army Special Forces activated on 20 May 1960. It was reorganized from the 77th Special Forces Group, which was also stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.  7th Group—as it is sometime called—is designed to deploy and execute nine doctrinal missions: 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. The 7th SFG(A) spends much of its time conducting foreign internal defense, counter-drug, and training missions of friendly governments' armed forces in South, Central, and North America as well as the Caribbean.  7th SFG(A) participated in Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada in 1983, and in Operation Just Cause in Panama in 1989.  The 7th SFG(S) has, like all the SFGs, been heavily deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in the War on Terror.
caption: A soldier from A Co, 1st Bn, 7th SFG(A) gives an Afghan boy a coloring book in Kandahar Province during a meeting with local leaders, September 2008
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