Special Operations Forces Grouping (Argentina)

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Special Operations Forces Grouping
Agrupación de Fuerzas de Operaciones Especiales
Comandos Argentinos con la bandera de guerra.jpg
Active2005–present
CountryFlag of Argentina.svg  Argentina
Branch Escudo del Ejercito Argentino.png Argentine Army
TypeUnified combatant command
SizeBrigade
Part of Rapid Deployment Force
Garrison/HQ Campo de Mayo, Buenos Aires
Nickname(s)AFOE
Motto(s)"Sapientia et Labore" (601st)
Colorsred, green
Anniversaries6 December
Engagements Falklands War
Commanders
Notable
commanders		Lt.Col. Mohamed Alí Seineldín (601st Commando)

The Special Operations Forces Grouping (Spanish : Agrupación de Fuerzas de Operaciones Especiales, AFOE) is the unified combatant command charged with overseeing the various special warfare operations component commands of the Argentine Army (EA).

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Created 6 December 2005 as the first operational element of the Argentine Army Project 2025.

The service is mainly composite of air assault infantry, airborne forces, commandos, special operations forces, and light helicopters; also artillery, engineers, air transport, and communications companies are constantly ready to assist and support the group. As of 2006 it consists of:

Special Operations Forces Group:

One of the objectives of the modernization process for the Argentine Army was to manage an enabled force that could move quickly to any crisis.

According to the Argentine Army website (translated):

The FDR will be organized, equipped and instructed with organic means of the Army to operate to requirement, in immediate form in any zone of the country, in order to provide to the high conduction of the Force an operational, efficient and fast instrument to act in situations that they require of the immediate use of the force.

The FDR must have a high capacity of preparation and reaction that allows him to be used in the designated place. It will be instructed in the execution of basic tactical operations and complementary, for which it is properly equipped. It could be displaced in organic means of transport of the Force Army. In addition, it will be able to execute commando operations and special operations forces of high complexity.

Two commando companies will depend on her in organic form, along with an aerial shock battalion, a battalion of assault helicopters, and a slight reconnaissance company.

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