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Special Operations Forces (SOF): Argentina

1999:1

Type of deployment Dates Training Event U.S. SOF Unit U.S. Personnel Host-nation personnel Cost
JCET 13-Jan-99/ 03-Mar-99 Light infantry tactics, Mountain warfare, Weapons fam, Survival techniques (SAR99010W/SF-9240) ODA 742 3/7 SFG(A) 8 45 from 601st Commando Co $73,000
JCET   "JCET: SOF METL TNG: CQB ROOM C"     40 $120,000

19982:

Type of deployment Dates Training Event U.S. SOF Unit U.S. Personnel Host-nation personnel Cost
JCET 30-Jan-98 / 15-Mar-98 Human rights, airborne operations, marksmanship, demolition, medical, survival, operational planning, field training exercise (SF8205) 7th Special Forces Group 10 24 from Gendarmería Special Forces Unit, San Ramón de Oran $56,000
JCET 20-Jul-98 / 10-Sep-98 Light infantry tactics, troop leading procedures, combat orders tactical decisionmaking, reconnaissance, combat lifesaver training (SF8431) 7th Special Forces Group 12 32 from Army 601st Comando, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego $86,000
JCET 27-Apr-98 / 03-May-98 JCET cancelled, advance party TDY only (SF8903) C/3/7 3 Cancelled - no host-nation unit identified $2,000

19973:

Type of deployment Dates Training Event U.S. SOF Unit U.S. Personnel Host-nation personnel Cost
JCET 30-Jan-97 / 11-Mar-97 Light Infantry Leaders' Course / Reconnaissance (SF 7201) 7th Special Forces Group 9 20 Army $56,000
JCET 11-Apr-97 / 23-May-97 Joint Combined Exercise Training (SF7911) 3d / 7th Special Forces Group 13 43 Army $371,000*
JCET 28-Jul-97 / 27-Aug-97 Light Infantry / Mountain (SF7436) 7th Special Forces Group 7 80 Army $47,000

*Cost to Argentina: $42,000


Sources:

1 United States, Defense Department, "Report on Training of Special Operations Forces for the Period Ending September 30, 1999," Washington, April 1, 2000.

United States, Department of Defense, Department of State, Foreign Military Training and DoD Engagement Activities of Interest in Fiscal Years 1999 and 2000: A Report to Congress (Washington: March 2000) <http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/fmtrain/toc.html>.

2 United States, Defense Department, "Report on Training of Special Operations Forces for the Period Ending September 30, 1998," Washington, April 1, 1999.

United States, Defense Department, State Department, "Foreign Military Training and DoD Engagement Activities of Interest In Fiscal Years 1998 and 1999: A Report To Congress," Washington, March 1999: 9.

3 United States, Defense Department, "Report on Training of Special Operations Forces for the Period Ending September 30, 1997," Washington, April 1, 1998.

Special Operations Forces (SOF): Argentina

 

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