To determine 17 elite U.S. special forces units, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed several lists, including from Armed Forces History Museum, CBSNews, Special Ops Magazine, Military.com, and Business Insider.

Wolfe spent the next 16 years in the U.S. Army’s premier counterterrorism unit, serving as a Special Forces operator and EOD sergeant major.

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What You Need to Know: Delta Force, officially known as the U.S. Army’s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1st SFOD-D), is a top-tier special operations unit specializing in ...

Special operations forces (SOF) is a generic term for all units under the SOCOM umbrella, while Special Forces is a specific SOF unit in the U.S. Army. The latest on Task & Purpose ...

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A small group of US special operations forces is also working with the Israel Defense Forces in response to the bloody Hamas ambush that killed more than a thousand people in Israel.

Members of the U.S. Army’s 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and NATO partner forces clear a trench at night during training at an undisclosed location in Poland on April 14, 2025.