United States Special Operations Forces
The United States of America has many, primarily military and intelligence organizations popularly known as 'Special Operations Forces'. Many but not all of the military units are components of the Department of Defense's United States Special Operations Command.
When in the Continental United States (CONUS), most special operations forces (SOF) answer to the administration of their assigned branch of the military.
Read more about United States Special Operations Forces: U.S. Special Operations Centers, Schools, and Courses, Commands
Famous quotes containing the words united states, united, states, special, operations and/or forces:
“We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you’re looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.”
—William McKinley (1843–1901)
“Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“And whoever forces himself to love anybody
begets a murderer in his own body.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)