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Article: Who's who in U.S. Special Operations Forces. (Unconventional Warriors).
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- National Defense
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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U.S. special operations forces consist of approximately 45,000 Army, Navy and Air Force commandos. That represents about 1.3 percent of all U.S. military personnel. The U.S. Special Operations Command receives nearly 1.3 percent of the nation's defense budget. The SOCOM budget for 2002 is $4.2 billion. That includes $409 million for equipment procurement and $1.5 billion for operations and maintenance.
Army Special Operations
Rangers (Airborne): The Rangers are a special operations response strike force that primarily conducts direct action missions. They are expert infantrymen--the principal airfield seizure-and-raid unit in the U.S. Army. A Ranger unit ...
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