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🌏 #SOFinthePacific 12-day regional engagements by USSOCOM and Special Operations Command Pacific 🇺🇸 SOF provides options for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and supports our #FriendsPartnersAllies in strengthening peace and security in the Indo-Pacific. The SOF leaders met with Allies and #partners in the Indo-Pacific region to engage on how Special Operations Forces can advance our shared vision of a #FreeAndOpenIndoPacific. 🇲🇵 🇵🇭 🇮🇩 🇯🇵🇬🇺 People | Win | Transform

In 1978, pioneer #Army Special Forces Col. James Dandridge II retired as a Special Operations Branch Chief in the The Joint Staff. This week, he shared his oral history with U.S. Special Operations Command's history and research team. 🎬 Dandridge was one of the first to wear the US Army Green Beret in 1961 as assistant adjutant of the then U.S. Army Special Warfare Center, under the command of Brig. Gen. William Yarborough, when President John F. Kennedy visited and authorized its wear. He spent most of his military assignments in Special Forces, Special Operations, Psychological Warfare/Operations and Joint Special Operations assignments. Dandridge continued serving our nation for decades in Foreign Service and the Foreign Affairs community post-military with diplomatic missions in both Iraq and Afghanistan. 🇺🇸 #ARSOF #GreenBeret #History #ArmyStrong

USSOCOM hosted German Parliamentary State Secretary to the Minister of Defence Siemtje Möller and her team to discuss our Special Operations Forces defense #partnerships and interoperability in adapting to multinational operational scenarios. The #SOF Allies emphasized diplomacy and international cooperation as the basis for our collective security. #1NATO75Years #People

Leaders from USSOCOM and SOCPAC visited the Indo-Pacific region to engage #partners and Allies on how U.S. Special Operations Forces can advance our shared vision of a #FreeAndOpenIndoPacific. 🇲🇵 🇵🇭 🇮🇩 🇯🇵🇬🇺 The 12 days of engagements kicked off with the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Irregular Warfare Symposium focused on the options and dilemmas SOF provides to support our teammates in strengthening peace and security in a region covering over half the world’s population. #SOFinthePacific #FriendsPartnersAllies

“Tradition is very important to our identity as military professionals and the parade is a strong part of that tradition," said #USMC Lt. Gen. Francis Donovan, vice commander of U.S. Special Operations Command. In an historic first for a joint and special operations Marine, Lt. Gen. Donovan hosted the U.S. Marine Corps Evening Parade at the historic 8th and I Marine Corps Barracks Washington D.C., Aug. 16, 2024. The parade honored U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Douglas A. Sims II, Director of the Joint Staff at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Donovan's parade theme and guest list represented the joint and interagency portfolio he holds for USSOCOM. Marine Barracks Washington, D.C., also known as “8th & I,” is the oldest active post in the #Marines. It was founded by President Thomas Jefferson and Lt. Col. William Ward Burrows, the second commandant of the Marine Corps, in 1801. “This is going to be one my career highlights returning to the oldest post of the Corps and hosting the parade honoring Lieutenant General Sims,” said Donovan. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dJkZpDTH. #Peole #MARSOC #Raider Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC)

CDR Brennan Cox and the team at USSOCOM Science and Technology led development and execution of Innovation Foundry 16: Contested Logistics in Future SOF Operations. This 3-day design thinking event assembled 80 subject matter experts from industry, academia, and government to propose novel capability concepts for resourcing power, parts, and supplies at the point of need for the untethered SOF operator. Innovation Foundry events allow us to turn warfighter needs into future capability, working with the people who make the tech, “S&T has developed and refined a unique process, the Innovation Cycle, to engage technology pioneers and leaders, and to discover and develop high risk, innovative, and disruptive technologies for future on-boarding. The Innovation Foundry is the first event in the Innovation Cycle and is the idea generation phase.” Want to learn more about Innovation Foundry events and how to participate? Read the call for participants and find future events at the SOFWERX website: https://lnkd.in/gAGqvsfk #scienceandtechnology #scienceandservice #usercentereddesign #designthinking

The Operation Polar Dagger series comes to a conclusion today. Over the past 8 weeks, SWCC and SEALs, U.S. Army and Air Force Special Operations Aviators, and Green Berets, with support from the @usnavy @alaskanationalguard and @uscg operated across the Alaskan Arctic—Bering Sea, Arctic Circle, Saint Lawrence Island, Wales, Little Diomede and Tin City. Over 200 participants traversed the expanse of Alaska to strengthen SOCNORTH’s understanding of the maritime, air and land operating environment, overcome the challenges of maneuvering in the Arctic, and the enhance partnerships with the Alaska Native peoples. USNORTHCOM Headquarters, US Special Operations Command

♠ “To our great partners, thank you for hosting another great Super Garuda Shield Exercise and thank you for being leaders in the region,” said USSOCOM Commander Gen. Bryan Fenton at the exercises opening reception. “Exercises like Super Garuda Shield, especially with Combined and Joint Forces, just don’t happen. They take a ton of planning, coordinating, and synchronizing.” Approximately 3,000 combined armed forces from the United States, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, United Kingdom, and New Zealand will participate in Super Garuda Shield 2024 from Aug. 26 to Sept. 6 to enhance combined interoperability capabilities. Super Garuda Shield continues to solidify the U.S.-Indonesia Major Defense Partnership Defense Cooperation Agreement and advances cooperation in support of a #FreeAndOpenIndoPacific. “Super Garuda Shield demonstrates the true power of partnerships,” said Fenton. “These are partnerships that bridge gaps across the interagency, across our services, across our combined forces.” #FriendsPartnersAllies Full story: https://lnkd.in/emEg-WZd

📍 Colombia - SOCSOUTH #StrengtheningPartnerships with United States Southern Command! To bolster military cooperation and interoperability, the armed forces of Colombia and the United States conducted a four-day training exchange on information operations with members from 14 units participating, Aug. 13-16, 2024. Exchanges like this are a testament to the ongoing commitment of both nations to enhance regional security and stability.   En un esfuerzo por fortalecer la cooperación militar y la interoperabilidad, las fuerzas armadas de Colombia y Estados Unidos realizaron un intercambio de información sobre operaciones de información durante cuatro días, con la participación de miembros de 14 unidades diferentes. Este evento es un testimonio del compromiso permanente de ambas naciones para mejorar la seguridad y la estabilidad regionales.   #SiempreFirmes #PatriaHonorLealtad #NuestroCompromisoEsColombia