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| As one of six additional SOF core activities ________________ are activities that establish, maintain, or influence relations between U.S forces and foreign civil authorities and civilian populations to facilitate U.S military operations. |
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| - Civil Affairs Operations (CAO) |
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| Special operations involve the use of small units of specially trained personnel using specialized tactics and equipment to achieve _____ objectives. |
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| - strategic or operational |
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| Operations and activities that are conducted to enable a resistance movement or insurgency to coerce, disrupt, or overthrow a government or occupying power by operating through or with an underground, auxiliary, and guerrilla force in a denied area are known as _____. It is a core activity of special operations forces. |
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| The cornerstone of the Special Forces Group's capability is the _____, a highly trained team of 12 Special Forces Green Berets. |
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| - Operational Detachment-Alpha (ODA) |
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| The 193rd Special Operations Wing of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard provides the only _____ platform in the Department of Defense with the EC-130 Commando Solo. |
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| - airborne psychological operations |
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| The Air Force's Battlefield Airmen or _____ Teams frequently operate with Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, and Special Forces in direct action, airfield seizure, and personnel recovery missions in hostile territory. |
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| Special Operations Forces are a valuable asset for the joint planner; however, they comprise only a small part of the total force, a little over _____ percent of the total force. |
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| A _____ is the principal joint Special Operations Forces organization tasked to meet all special operations requirements in major operations, campaigns, or a contingency. |
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| - Special Operations Joint Task Force (SOJTF) |
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| In joint SOF mission planning, a demanding full-up, real-time _____ can mitigate much of the inherent risks of many Special Operations Forces (SOF) missions. It is key to the success of complex joint SOF missions. |
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| USSOCOM is focused on organizing, training, equipping and providing highly capable __________ special operations forces to geographic combatant commanders. |
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- Un-conventional
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| Military-political considerations frequently cast special operations into clandestine or covert environments; therefore, their activities normally involve oversight at the _____ level. |
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| This MARSOC element trains, advises, and assists friendly host nation forces, including naval and maritime military and paramilitary forces, to enable them to support their governments' internal security and stability, to counter subversion, and to reduce the risk of violence from internal and external threats. It has the capability to form the nucleus of a Joint Special Operations Task Force. |
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| - Marine Special Operations Regiment (MSOR) |
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| Civil Affairs Soldiers enable military commanders and U.S Ambassadors to improve relationships with various stakeholders to meet the objectives of the |
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| Each geographic combatant command has a _____ to plan and control special operations and other Special Operations Forces activities. |
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| - Theater Special Operations Command (TSOC) |
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