Many of the initial members of the 10th SFG(A) were Lodge Act recruits, who were strenuously anti-Communist.
It was originally planned that half of the members of the Special Forces would be native Europeans. In 1950, the Lodge Act was passed, which provided for the recruiting of foreign nationals into the United States military. Units of the 10th SFG(A) have participated in humanitarian missions to the Congo, Somalia, and Rwanda. The group has also trained various components of the militaries of several Middle Eastern countries, including Lebanon, Jordan, Yemen, Iran, as well as Kurdish tribesmen. Between 19, 10th SFG(A) moved to Fort Carson, Colorado, which remains its current home.ġ0th Group began training with unconventional warfare groups from friendly countries in the 1960s, beginning with NATO allies. In 1968, the majority of the unit transferred to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, with the exception of 1st Battalion, which remained in Germany. The remaining personnel stayed at Fort Bragg where they formed the 77th Special Forces Group (redesignated as the 7th SFG in 1960). An additional 99 personnel deployed to Korea where they were assigned to the 8240th Army Unit which was training anti-Communist North Korean partisans on the off-shore islands. In September 1953, 782 members of the Group deployed to Germany and established the Group headquarters at Lenggries in Bavaria. The first Special Forces Course graduated in 1952 and the Group grew to 1,700 personnel. The 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) was activated on and 10th SFG was activated on 19 June 1952, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, under the command of Colonel Aaron Bank. 10th SFG(A) was deployed to Saudi Arabia in 1991 during the First Persian Gulf War, and has been heavily involved in the War on Terrorism, deploying to Georgia, North Africa, Afghanistan, and consistently to Iraq. In 2009, as part of a new SOCOM directive, the group is now also responsible for operations within the AFRICOM area of responsibility.
10th Group is responsible for operations within the EUCOM area of responsibility, as part of Special Operations Command Europe ( SOCEUR). 10th Group is designed to deploy and execute nine doctrinal missions: unconventional warfare (UW), foreign internal defense (FID), direct action (DA), counterinsurgency, special reconnaissance, counterterrorism, information operations, counter-proliferation of weapon of mass destruction, and security force assistance. The 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) (10th SFG (A), or 10th Group) is an active duty United States Army Special Forces (SF) Group.
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