1st Special Forces Group (United States)

1st Special Forces Group (Airborne)
1st Special Forces Group beret flash
Active24 June 1957 – 28 June 1974
4 September 1984 – present
Country United States of America
Branch United States Army
TypeSpecial Operations Forces
RolePrimary tasks:
  • Unconventional Warfare (UW)
  • Foreign Internal Defense (FID)
  • Direct Action (DA)
  • Counter-Insurgency (COIN)
  • Special Reconnaissance (SR)
  • Counter-Terrorism (CT)
  • Information Operations (IO)
  • Counterproliferation of WMD (CP)
  • Security Force Assistance (SFA)
Size4 Battalions: One at Torii Station, Okinawa, Japan, three in Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington
Part of 1st Special Forces Command
Garrison/HQJoint Base Lewis-McChord
Motto(s)First in Asia
EngagementsVietnam War
War on Terror
Insignia
Former 1st SFG(A) recognition bar, worn by non-Special Forces qualified soldiers—in lieu of a beret flash—from the 1960s to 1984
1st Special Forces Command (Airborne) shoulder sleeve insignia, worn by all 1st SFC(A) units

The 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) (1st SFG) (A) is a unit of the U.S. Army Special Forces operating under the United States Pacific Command. 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.