In spite of its name, the 101st Airborne Division is actually an air-assault-focused unit that specializes in operations using helicopters. “Unless you destroy the main system, the hub, at the end of the day, no aircraft can fly into that area.” “As you have these systems all around the battlefield, essentially, the radar in one area can pick up targeting for a rocket in another area,” he continued. “Our mission here is to support 3rd of the 101st in large scale operations, largely initiated with our ability to take out integrated air defense systems ,” Aryana explained. The group has also deployed detachments in support of operations in Iraq, as well as the recently concluded campaign in Afghanistan.
The 7th group has a regional focus on operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, which has typically seen them support allies and partners conducting counterinsurgency and counternarcotics missions, the report said.
Major Afshin Aryana, from Company A, 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group. This appears to be the same exercise that, in September, saw mock enemy troops - also known as the opposing force (OPFOR) - use missile and machine-gun armed unmanned ground vehicles for the first time, the report said.īritish Army soldiers from 4th Battalion, The Rifles - a specialized infantry unit - presently assigned to that service’s Special Operations Brigade, were also attached to the American special operations force for this exercise.įor the Green Berets, this exercise at the JRTC was “a little bit of a departure from what we’re used to due to the fact that this is under the auspices of LSCO, which is large scale combat operations,” said Sgt. Elements of the Army’s 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) carried out these missions in support of troops from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division.
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