United States
Special Forces
Beret Flashes
Reference Catalog
By
Albert A. Goulet
Airborne or special operations units on jump status are authorized
Beret Flashes and Background Trimmings (Ovals)
under the provisions of paragraph 28-31, AR 670-1.
Divisions, brigades, groups, regiments, battalions and separate
companies/detachments are entitled to a flash within their own right.
Airborne units not on jump status (101st Airborne Division)
are authorized only the background trimmings.
Request for authorization of the flash or trimming may be to TIOH approval.
The request must include a copy of the permanent orders showing
the unit is airborne and a color design of the insignia requested.
The flash and background trimmings will not contain design elements
except geometrical divisions or shape.
Flashes and background trimmings are not available through the supply system.
They may be obtained through local purchase procedures from manufacturers certified by TIOH.
All Pictures of Beret Flashes are Copyright ©
Eagles of War 1995-2007. All Rights Reserved.
Information & Plaques Courtesy
of The Institute of Heraldry
& United States Army!!
The Special Warfare Memorial Statue
"Bronze Bruce"
The Special Warfare Memorial Statue, also known as “Bronze Bruce,” was the first Vietnam memorial in the United States and was dedicated in 1969. Since then, the statue has become the centerpiece of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command’s Memorial Plaza at Fort Bragg, N.C., and is symbolic of all the command’s Soldiers.
A Special Forces Soldier was chosen as the model for the statue since nearly all Army special operations Soldiers killed in Vietnam were Green Berets.
Information & Photo Courtesy of
Special Operations Command
Special Forces Beret Flashes
1st Special Service Force "Devil's Brigade" (WWII)
U.S. Special Operations Command
U.S. Army Element
Special Operations Command,
Atlantic (SOCLANT) (Airborne)
U.S. Army Element
Special Operations Command Central (SOCCENT)
U.S. Army Element
Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR)
Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)
U.S. Army Element
Special Operations Command,
Joint Forces Command (SOCJFCOM) (Airborne)
U.S. Army Element
Special Operations Command,
Pacific (SOCPAC) (Airborne)
U.S. Army Element
Special Operations Command,
South (Airborne)
Special Forces School
Now: Special Operations School
Special Operations Support
Command (SOSCOM) (Airborne)
Special Operations Support Battalion (Airborne)
Special Operations Task Force Europe
U.S. Army Element
Special Operations Command Korea
U.S. Army Reserve
Special Operations Command
Now:
Civil Affairs
and Psychological
Operations Command (Airborne)
Joint Casualty Resolution Center (JCRC)
U.S. Army Special Operations Command
United States Army
Special Forces Command (Airborne)
Special Forces Group (Airborne)
1st Special Forces Group (Airborne)
3d Special Forces Group (Airborne)
5th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
6th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
7th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
8th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
10th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
11th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
12th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
19th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
20th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
77th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
Special Forces Company
Special Forces Detachment
Special Forces Vietnam Provisional
Special Warfare
