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“We need to think differently and we need to move faster, and one thing I have found throughout my career is that SOF knows how to do that better than anyone else." General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Army Reserve Element provides MOS-qualified and deployable Army Reserve personnel to augment USSOCOM, leveraging their military experience, applicable civilian skills, and rapid availability, in order to meet peacetime, contingency, and wartime requirements.
Special Operations require unique modes of employment and equipment, tactics techniques and procedures. SOCOM develops and employs fully capable Special Operations Forces to conduct global Special Operations and activities as part of the Joint Force.
SOCOM works in support of the Global Combatant Commanders’ objectives and do so in concert with the U.S. Government Interagency, Allies and Partners, to support persistent, networked and distributed combatant command operations and campaigns against state and non-state actors to protect and advance U.S. policies and objectives.
SOCOM ARE provides trained Reserve personnel to augment and fully integrate into the SOCOM headquarters, JSOC and TSOCs, leveraging military experience, civilian skills, and availability to effectively meet peacetime, crisis, and wartime requirements on a timely basis.
Life in SOCOM is extremely busy. The world has not slowed down for SOF despite the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan having ended – SOF continues to provide unique access and placement that create options for the nation's leaders.
Upon joining the ARE, Soldiers will attend the five-day Introduction to Special Operations Forces - Foundations Course before reporting to their directorate.
Based on your MOS and position, there will be opportunities to attend additional JSOU or Foundry courses. For information on JSOU courses, check out https://www.jsou.edu/.
