
The Engineer Sergeants are a “triple threat” duty position. They recruit, organize, train, and advise or command indigenous combat forces up to company size. They plan and perform sabotage operations. They construct and employ improvised munitions. Supervise, lead, plan, perform, and instructs combat engineering and light construction engineering. They also act as advisors for weapons employment to the Team or foreign units. and the most popular foreign weapons globally. This includes rifles, pistols, sub-machineguns, mortars, heavy mortars, air defense missiles, anti-tank weapons, sniper systems, grenade launchers, and machine guns. The Weapons Sergeants are trained to expertly to use every weapon available to a Light Infantry Battalion. The operator of the Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha firing his gun (Photo: Pinterest/Green Berets) They train detachment members and indigenous personnel to use small arms, light crew-served weapons, and anti-air and anti-armor weapons. Two Weapons SergeantsĮmploy conventional and Unconventional Warfare (U.W.) tactics as tactical mission leaders. He also assists the Operations Sergeant and replaces him when needed. Plans, coordinates, directs the detachment’s intelligence collections, analysis, production, and dissemination. The Assistant Operations and Intelligence Sergeant I was one of the last of the First Lieutenants in Special Forces. When I joined Special Forces, this was filled by a First Lieutenant, but it changed shortly afterward. He prepares the administrative and logistical portions of area studies, brief backs, and plans. Serves as second in command and ensures that the detachment commander’s decisions and concepts are implemented. They are officially known as the detachment technician. He can recruit, organize, train, and supervise indigenous forces up to battalion size. He prepares the operations and training portions of area studies, brief backs, and OPLANs, all of which we will discuss later.
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He provides tactical and technical guidance and professional support to detachment members. He advises the team leader on operations and training matters. He is officially known as the Operations Sergeant and the senior enlisted member of the detachment. A battalion of fifteen A-Team can recruit, organize, train, and field fifteen battalions of indigenous troops. Note that this aligns with Special Forces’ primary mission of being a force multiplier.

Above that is the C-Team, Operational Detachment Charlie, or ODC. Its higher command is a B-Team, Operational Detachment Bravo, or ODB. Special Forces Group Organizational ChartĪ-Team is taken from Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha, or SFOD-A, usually shortened to ODA, and then to A-Team.
