What is USSOCOM and what units fall under it?
Congressional Research Service | December 27, 2021
This primer on USSOCOM was written by Barbara Salazar Torreon, Acting Head of Research and
Library Services, and Andrew Feickert, Specialist in Military Ground Forces, for the Congressional Research Service.
Activated on April 16, 1987, and headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL, USSOCOM is the unified Combatant Command (COCOM) responsible for organizing, training, and equipping all U.S. SOF units.
Headquarters, USSOCOM consists of approximately 2,500 military and civilian personnel, and overall, the command has more than 70,000 personnel assigned to its headquarters, its service components, and sub-unified commands.
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The USSOCOM commander is a four-star general officer from any Service, who reports directly to the SECDEF.
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, USSOCOM’s responsibilities were expanded in the 2004 Unified Command Plan (UCP), assigning USSOCOM responsibility for coordinating the Department of Defense (DOD) plans against global terrorism and conducting global operations as directed. Since 2016, USSOCOM has also been assigned the roles coordinating authority over countering violent extremist operations (CVEO) and counter weapons of mass destruction (CWMD) operations.
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