Special Forces Underwater Operations

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Military Scuba Diver Badge, retired in 2004
Current Army Special Operations Diver Badge

Special Forces Underwater Operations (SFUWO) is the term for

counter-terrorism, foreign internal defense
, among others.

Special Forces Underwater Operations Training (c. 1956) [2]
Special Forces Underwater Operations School Overview (2015) (2:52)

US Army Special Forces first existed within the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Operational Groups. Army Green Beret Combat Divers were first in the OSS Maritime Unit.

Navy SEALs. Archival footage from this time period depicts an Army Special Forces detachment conducting advanced underwater operations including underwater infiltration, submarine lockout procedures, and underwater demolition.[2]

Special Forces Underwater Operations School

The US

Army Special Forces founded the Special Forces Underwater Operations School in Trumbo Point Annex, Naval Air Station Key West, in 1964.[5] Prior to that SF Detachment-Alphas were receiving disparate levels of dive training at their respective groups. SFUWO makes up C Company of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Special Warfare Training Group at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School
.

Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps personnel have previously attended the Combat Diver Qualification Course (CDQC), the seven week course that trains special operators to conduct SFUWO in a combat environment.

combat controllers, CDQC was formerly a standard part of the Air Force pararescue and combat control training pipelines (prior to the opening of the USAF Combat Diver Course in Panama City, FL), and both Tactical Air Control Party and Special Reconnaissance
(formerly Special Operations Weather Teams) have also attended CDQC to become qualified in special warfare maritime operations.

See also

References

  1. ^ "FM-3-05-212 Special Forces Waterborne Operations". US Army APD. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  2. ^ a b "The Big Picture," Pictorial Report No. 29, TV-372; U.S. Army; courtesy of PublicResourceOrg; circa 1956; last accessed 28 November 2022
  3. ^ "OSS Maritime Unit". OSS Maritime Unit. Archived from the original on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  4. ^ "Christian Lambertsen and the Secret Story Behind Scuba". CIA Library. Central Intelligence Agency Library. Archived from the original on August 26, 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  5. ^ a b Crippen, Linda. "Combat Diver Qualification Course challenges Special Forces". US ARMY. US ARMY TRADOC. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
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