NAVSPECWARCOM and MARSOC Active, National Guard, and Reserve units, and is useful to the larger joint and interorganizational environment.
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ATP 3-18.72 (S//NF) Special Forces Personnel Recovery (U), 13 January 2016
ATP 3-18.72 provides the doctrinal framework for U.S. Army special operations forces (ARSOF) personnel recovery operations from both the perspective of the recovery force, as well as that of the individual evader. It also provides an explanation of the various personnel recovery mission tasks, capabilities, limitations, general guidance, and employment techniques at both the strategic and tactical levels. Prepared under the direction of the Special Forces Doctrine Division, United States Army Special Operations Center of Excellence, USAJFKSWCS. This publication outlines the contributions of SF to the theater personnel recovery effort. SF personnel recovery missions seek to achieve specific, well defined and often sensitive results of strategic or operational significance. SF personnel recovery missions are conducted in support of their own operations, when directed by the joint task force commander to support combat search and rescue (CSAR) operation, when the threat to the recovery force is high enough to warrant the conduct of a special operation, and when SF are the only forces available or capable.
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Training Circulars (TC)
TC 18-01 Special Forces Unconventional Warfare, January 2011
Training Circular (TC) 18-01, Special Forces Unconventional Warfare, defines the current United States (U.S.) Army Special Forces (SF) concept of planning and conducting unconventional warfare (UW) operations. For the foreseeable future, U.S. forces will predominantly engage in irregular warfare (IW) operations. TC 18-01 is authoritative but not directive. It serves as a guide and does not preclude SF units from developing their own standing operating procedures (SOPs) to meet their needs. It explains planning and the roles of SF, Military Information Support operations (MISO), and Civil Affairs (CA) in UW operations.There are appropriate manuals within the series that addresses the other primary SF missions in detail. The primary users of this manual are commanders, staff officers, and operational personnel at the team (Special Forces operational detachment A [SFODA]), company (Special Forces operational detachment B [SFODB]), and battalion (Special Forces operational detachment C [SFODC]) levels. This TC is specifically for SF Soldiers; however, it is also intended for use Army wide to improve the integration of SF into the plans and operations of other special operations forces (SOF) and conventional forces.
https://armypubs.us.army.mil/doctrine/DR_pubs/dr_c/pdf/tc18_01.pdf
TC 31-16 (S//NF) Special Forces Guide to Preparation of the Environment (U), 6 June 2007
This TC provides concepts, functions, and procedures for SF conducting PE to support current and future SOF operations.
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