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10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces Regiment

The 10th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces Regiment is a brigade-sized unit at to Fort Carson, Colorado. It is assigned to the US Army's Special Forces Command, located at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The Group trains for and conducts combat, unconventional warfare, special reconnaissance, and foreign internal defense missions, focused mainly in the US European Command area of responsibility.

The 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne, 1st Special Forces Regiment was first constituted on 5 July 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 4th Company, 2nd Battalion, First Regiment, 1st Special Service Force, a combined Canadian-American organization. It was activated on 9 July 1942 at Fort William Henry Harrison, Montana. The unit served in 6 campaigns during the Second World War with the 1st Special Service Force: Aleutian Islands, Naples-Foggia, Anzio, Rome-Arno, Southern France (awarded a streamer with arrowhead indicating participation in the initial assault), and Rhineland. At the end of the Second World War, the unit was disbanded on 6 January 1945 in France.

The unit was reconstituted on 15 April 1960 in the Regular Army. It was concurrently consolidated with Company A, 2nd Infantry Battalion (first activated on 1 April 1943), and the consolidated unit was redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 10th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces. The unit was again consolidated on 30 September 1960 with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 10th Special Forces Group (first constituted 19 May 1952 in the Regular Army and activated on 11 June 1952 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina), and the consolidated unit was designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 10th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces. Its organic elements were concurrently constituted and activated on 20 March 1961.

On 3 February 1986, the lineage and honors of former Company A, 2nd Infantry Battalion were withdrawn from that of the 10th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces. They were consolidated with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 75th Infantry, and the consolidated unit was redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, which thereafter had a separate lineage.

Between 1990 and 1991, the 10th Special Forces Group deployed forces in support of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm, earning campaign streamers for 2 campaigns: Defense of Saudi Arabia and Liberation and Defense of Kuwait.

Special operations forces from the Army, Navy and Air Force conducted numerous missions supporting NATO's Implementation Force (IFOR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Assistance ranged from air support and rescue operations to reconnaissance and liaison duties. Nearly 700 members of the Army's Special Operations Command deployed to Bosnia in mid-December 1995 and began numerous operations throughout the Balkan nation. Included were more than 100 reservists serving in Special Forces, civil affairs and psychological operations positions. Army special operations units in the area included the 1st Special Forces Group from Fort Lewis, Washington; the 5th Special Forces Group from Fort Campbell, Kentucky; the 10th Special Forces Group from Fort Carson, Colorado; and the Army National Guard's 20th Special Forces Group from Birmingham, Alabama. Portions of Fort Bragg's 4th Psychological Operations Battalion, 96th Civil Affairs Battalion, and 112th and 528th Special Operations Signal battalions were also in Bosnia. Special operations personnel served as liaisons between NATO forces and local nationals. Other tasks may included unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance, counterterrorism, and humanitarian or civic action.

By 2005, the Group consisted of a group headquarters and support units and 3 subordinate battalions. One of these battalions, the 1st Battalion, was forward deployed at Panzer Kaserne, near Stuttgart, Germany. Over 1,100 soldiers were assigned to the 10th Special Forces Group at Fort Carson, Colorado. Major subordinate elements of the 10th Special Forces Group included the Headquarters and Headquarters Company; the Group Support Company; the 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group; and the 3rd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group. The Group was redesignated on 1 October 2005 as the 10th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces Regiment.

On 19 August 2010, the 4th Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) was activated at a ceremony at Manhart Field, Fort Carson, Colorado. The battalion was to have more than 400 Soldiers assigned when its growth was completed in 2011.