![]() ![]() The Army’s Special Forces, still in their infancy, were spread thin. The 77th SFG spawned the 7th SFG oriented to Latin America and the 14th SF Operational Detachment (14th SFOD) for the Pacific region. With 10th Special Forces Group focused on postwar Europe, the 77th SFG was initially responsible for the rest of the world. 2 Unrest in Indonesia emphasized the “domino theory” of Communist aggression during the Cold War. The Viet Minh victory at Dien Bien Phu marked the beginning of the end of French colonialism in Indochina and by the end of 1955, the HUK revolt had been put down. The French had been fighting the Viet Minh in Indochina while the new Philippines government had been combating a HUK rebellion since 1946. Wars of national liberation were being fought in countries of Southeast Asia and the southwest Pacific during the 1950s. Army Special Forces presence ended shortly after the armistice, but the necessity to train foreign soldiers in unconventional warfare to combat insurgencies in the Pacific region did not. In 1953, seventy graduates (officers and noncommissioned officers) of the second and third Special Forces qualification course were sent to Korea as individual replacements to the 8240th Army Unit, which was the backbone of U.N.-sponsored partisan operations during the war. Army Special Forces’ relationship with the Republic of Korea is almost as old as Special Forces itself. Original 1st SFG beret flash Original ROKA 1st Special Warfare Group shoulder patch Korea Military Assistance Group patch ![]()
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