Can someone list who all the special groups and their associated military branch?

Army -Rangers
     Green Berets

Navy - SEALs
      UDTs (consolidated into SEALS)
      SeaBees

Marines - Force Recon

Air Force - Combat Controllers

Those are the main ones.  BTW - The Navy SeaBees are civil engineers.  Heavily armed and well-trained civil engineers...

FFZ

Rangers=Army
Greeen Berets=Army
Airborne=Army
Seals=Navy
Recon=Marines
Delta=Army
Foward Air Controllers= Airforce/Army
There are others

This is info you can get any where, but just to clarify what others have said and add:

Green Berets is slang for Army Special Forces.
SFOD-D,.. Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta


There are also people like Night Stalkers, Air Force PJ, etc.  For this kind of go to http://specialoperations.com and read.

Have fun.

Ninjas= Shopping malls (from what I've heard, but them fellas are as elusive as.....well, Ninjas)

Red Rag Rangers=Taiban Afghan.

maybe we can get nsf jojo to talk about his special operations command, being that he is the mall ninja.

is he still a mall ninja, i mean he always will be, but does he still work at the mall or has he found a better job?

OffRoad

Marines:

Recon
Force Recon
Counter Intelligence Teams
FAST platoons
Scout Snipers
MEU(SOC)'s

Blue Light Bettys = K-Mart Shoppers

Red Coats = Valet drivers

Gopher Getters = Pest Controllers

All of these groups are just as dangerous [:D]

Democrats:
 rump rangers
 carpet munchers

Do you know why senators don't use bookmarks?






'cause they like their pages bent over!!!!!

Note that Marines don't have any units associated with the Speical Operations Command.  Their units (FR etc) are classified as Special Operations Capable.  So they don't get a slice of the Special Operations Command money and hence don't answer to them.  My Marine brothers here can clear this up better than I can.

Some tidbits:
- Rangers and SF = Army
- Delta = Army SF (They draw from Army personnel *only* but those can come from the Reserves and Guard units as long as they are willing to go active.)
- Psy Ops is also considered Special Operations.
- SEALs, SWCC (boat guys) and EOD = Naval Special Warfare.  UDT were redesignated into new SEAL and SDV Teams in the early 80's.
- Seabees are not NSW.  They are engineers.
- Parajumpers, Combat Controllers, and Combat Weather Teams are all considered Air Force Special Tactics.
- Airborne is not Special Operations.

There are numerous groups within these designations.  That would require too much typing.  Hope this helps.

-SARguy

Actually the term "Special Operations Capable" doesn't refer to Recon, but to entire Marine Expeditionary Units {MEU(SOC)}
It's the Ground Combat Element (Battalion Landing Team) of the MEU that trains for and receives that designation.

Air Force ParaRescue?  Not your typical blow-em-up type of SF, but they do have a pretty unconventional role.

Viper Out

Thanks for the clarification Major.  I knew it was something like that.

Viper - SF is Army only.  Special Operations refers to all units.

-SARguy