Academic Handbook

SWCS Leadership
Commanding General
Major General Edward M. Reeder Jr.
Command Chief Warrant Officer
Chief Warrant Officer 5 Heriberto Serrano Jr.
Command Sergeant Major
Command Sergeant Major Frank Gilliand
Deputy Commanding General
Brigadier General Ferdinand Irizarry II
Chief of Staff
Colonel Donald R. Franklin
Center and School
Director, Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate [CDID]...........................Colonel Samuel L. Ashley
Director, ARSOF Human Resources [ARSOF HR]..................................................................... Colonel Paul J. Roberts
Civil Affairs Commandant........................................................................................................Colonel Michael Warmack
Psychological Operations Commandant..................................................................................Colonel Michael A. Ceroli
Special Forces Commandant...................................................................................................Colonel Matthew R. Carran
Commander, 1st Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne) [SWTG (A)]..................Colonel B. Ashton Naylor Jr.
Commander, Special Warfare Education Group (Airborne) [SWEG (A)]..................................... Colonel Paul A. Ott
Commander, Special Warfare Medical Group (Airborne) [SWMG (A)]........................................... Colonel Sean Lee
Commandant, Warrant Officer Institute [WOI].............................................................. Chief Warrant 5 Daniel Wilke
Commandant, NCO Academy [NCOA]....................................................Command Sergeant Major Mark W. Eckard
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Welcome to SWCS..........................................................6
ARSOF Warriors...............................................................7
SWCS Organization.........................................................8
Training Locations.........................................................15
USAJFKSWCS
Academic Handbook
Academic Year 2013-2014
Civil Affairs (CA)

Active Duty Courses......................................................16
CA Assessment and Selection.................................16
CA Active Duty Qualification Course..........................16
CA Specialist, 38B..................................................17
CA Officer Qualification............................................17
Reserve Component Courses......................................18

CA Reserve Officer Qualification Course...................18
CA Reserve Officer Qualification, Phase 1 (dL)............... 18
CA Reserve Officer Qualification, Phase 2...................... 18
CA Specialist, 38B (AIT)..........................................19
CA Training (Sister Services/Foreign Students)........20

Cultural Support Assessment/Selection....................20
Cultural Support Training.............................................20
PsycholoGical operations
Active Duty Courses......................................................21
PSYOP Assessment and Selection...........................21
PSYOP Qualification Course.....................................21
PSYOP Specialist Qualification Course......................... 22
PSYOP Officer Qualification Course.............................. 23
Reserve Component Courses......................................24

PSYOP Reserve Officer Qualification Course..............24
Phase 1 (dL)...............................................................24
Phase 2 (Resident)......................................................25
PSYOP Specialist (IET).........................................25
PSYOP Officer (International Students)......................26

Advanced Skills.............................................................26
ARSOF MILDEC Planners Course..............................26
MISO ISO Unconventional Warfare Course................26
MISO Targeting and Analysis Course........................27
MISO Advanced Planners Course.............................27
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Special Forces (SF)
ARSOF
SF Preparatory Course.................................................28
Security Assistance Team Training and Orientation.... 42
SF Assessment and Selection.....................................28
Special Operations Combatives Program Instructor.... 42
SF Qualification Course................................................29
ARSOF Common Core....................................................... 42
Phase I, Course Orientation and History...................29
SERE High Risk (Level C).............................................43
Phase II, SF Tactical Combat Skills (SUT)..................30

Phase III, MOS Training...........................................30
MEDICAL
18A, SF Detachment Officer......................................... 30

18B, Weapons Sergeant.............................................. 30
18C, Engineer Sergeant............................................... 31
18D, Medical Sergeant................................................ 31
18E, Communications Sergeant................................... 31
Civil Affairs Medical Sergeant.....................................44
Phase IV, UW Culex (Robin Sage).............................32
SF Medical Sergeant.....................................................46
Phase V, Language and Culture................................32
Special Operations Independent Duty Corpsman.....46
Phase VI, Graduation..............................................32
Post-SFQC.......................................................................33
Detachment Leader Course.....................................33
Advanced Skills.............................................................33
SF Combat Diver Qualification Course......................33
SF Combat Diving Supervisor Course.......................34
SF Diving Medical Technician Course........................34
Military Free Fall Parachutist Course.........................34
Military Free Fall Jumpmaster Course.......................35
Advanced Military Free Fall Course...........................35
SF Intelligence Sergeant Course..............................36
Advanced Special Operations Techniques Course......36
Advanced Special Operations Managers Course........36
Operator Technical Surveillance Course....................37
Advanced Technical Surveillance Course...................37
Special Operations Analytics and Intelligence Course.....37
Special Forces Network Development Course...........37
UW Operational Design Course................................38
SOF Digital Targeting Training...................................38
SOF Site Exploitation, Technical Exploitation Course..... 38
SOF Sensitive Site Exploitation
Operator Advanced Course......................................39
Exploitation Analysis Center - Organic.......................39
SF Physical Surveillance Course..............................39
SF Sniper Course....................................................40
SF Advanced Reconaissance Target Analysis
Exploitation Techniques Course...............................40
SF Senior Mountaineering Course (Level 2)...............41
SF Senior Mountaineering Course (Level 1)...............41
Special Operations Combat Medic.............................44

Special Operations Combat
Medic Skills Sustainment............................................45
SPECIAL OPERATIONS LANGUAGE TRAINING

Basic Languages...........................................................47
NCO Academy
Todays NCOES...............................................................48
CA SLC............................................................................48
PSYOP ALC.....................................................................49
PSYOP SLC.....................................................................49
SF SLC............................................................................49
warrant officer institute

SF Warrant Officer Technical
and Tactical Certification.............................................50
SF Warrant Officer Advanced Course.........................51
SF Warrant Officer Staff Course..................................51
STAFF AND FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

SOF Pre-Command Course..........................................52
Training Developers Workshop....................................52
Special Operations Instructor Course.........................52
Special Operations Aspiring Leader Program...........53
7 Habits of Highly Effective People............................53
SWCS Newcomers Briefing & Orientation Tour......53
SPECIAL OPERATIONS doctrine

Doctine List....................................................................54
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Welcome to SWCS
SWCS Mission
The U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, the U.S. Armys Special Operations
Center of Excellence, trains, educates, develops and manages world-class Civil Affairs, Psychological
Operations and Special Forces warriors and leaders in order to provide the ARSOF regiments with
professionally trained, highly educated, innovate and adaptive operators.
SWCS Vision
Professionalism starts here. We are an adaptive institution characterized by agility, collaboration,

accountability and integrity. We promote life-long learning and transformation.
We are the Special Operations Center of Learning whose credibility in producing the worlds finest special
operators is recognized and sustained by every single member of our three regiments.
Civil Affairs (CA)
Psychological Operations
SWCS History
Special Forces (SF)
The U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School dates back to 1950, when the U.S. Army developed the Psychological Warfare Division of the Army General School, Fort Riley, Kan.
In April 1952, the PSYWAR training activities were transferred to Smoke Bomb Hill, Fort Bragg, N.C., as the PSYWAR Center, and in
1956 it was renamed the Special Warfare School. The school was given the responsibility to develop the doctrine, techniques, training and
education of Special Forces and Psychological Operations personnel.
In 1960, the schools responsibilities expanded to counterinsurgency operations grew again in 1962, when the Special Warfare
Center established an SF Training Group to train enlisted volunteers for operational assignments. The Advanced Training Committee
was formed to explore and develop sophisticated methods of infiltration and exfiltration. On May 16, 1969, the school was renamed
the John F. Kennedy Center for Military Assistance. The curriculum was expanded to provide training in high-altitude, low-opening
(HALO) parachuting and SCUBA operations. The institute comprised the SF School, Psychological Operations, Military Advisors
School and Institute Brigade.
On April 1, 1972, the U.S. Army Civil Affairs School was transferred from Fort Gordon, Ga., to Fort Bragg, operating under the centers
umbrella. In 1973, the center was assigned to the new U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, or TRADOC.
On June 1, 1982, the Chief of Staff of the Army approved the separation of the center as an independent TRADOC activity under the
name U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center. The SWC integrated special operations into the Army systems, training and
operations, becoming the proponent school for Army special operations forces.
In 1985, SWC was recognized as the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School. The major change at this time
was the establishment of six training departments: Special Forces; Special Operations Advanced Skills; Survival, Evasion, Resistance
and Escape; Foreign Area Officer; Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations. A few years later, the Noncommissioned Officer Academy was instituted. In 1989, SWCS was restructured following the establishment of a training-group and three training battalions with
one support battalion.
On June 20, 1990, SWCS was reassigned from TRADOC to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command. This designation gave USASOC control of all components of SOF, with the exception of forward-deployed units. Throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century, the
primary SWCS mission has been to fill the force with quality special-operations Soldiers. In 2011, following optimization, three additional
training battalions were added and on Dec. 2, 2011, SWCS was named the U.S. Armys Special Operations Center of Excellence.
ARSOF Warriors
ARSOF Core Attributes
The ARSOF core attributes will be used as a benchmark in the selection of special-operations Soldiers. All Soldiers entering training
at the JFK Special Warfare Center and School will be briefed on the attributes. Their initial counseling will be based on the attributes, and
the attributes importance will be stressed throughout training.
Integrity
Being trustworthy and honest; acting with honor and unwavering adherence to ethical standards
Courage
Acting on own convictions despite consequences; is willing to sacrifice for a larger cause; not paralyzed by fear of failure
Perseverance
Working toward an end; has commitment; physical or mental resolve; motivated; gives effort to the cause; does not quit
Personal Responsibility
Being self-motivated and an autonomous self-starter; anticipates tasks and acts accordingly; takes accountability for his actions
Professionalism
Behaving as a standard-bearer for the regiment; has a professional image, to include a level of maturity and judgment mixed with confidence and humility; forms sound opinions and makes own decisions; stands behind his sensible decisions based on his experiences
Adaptability
Possessing the ability to maintain composure while responding to or adjusting ones own thinking and actions to fit a changing environment; the ability to think and solve problems in unconventional ways; the ability to recognize, understand and navigate within multiple
social networks; the ability to proactively shape the environment or circumstances in anticipation of desired outcomes
Team Player
Possessing the ability to work on a team for a greater purpose than himself; dependable and loyal; works selflessly with a sense of duty;
respects others and recognizes diversity
Capability
Maintaining physical fitness, to include strength and agility; has operational knowledge; able to plan and communicate effectively
SOF Truths
Humans are more important than hardware
Quality is better than quantity
SOF cannot be mass-produced
Competent SOF cannot be created after emergencies occur
Most special operations require non-SOF support
SOF Imperatives
Understand the operational environment
Anticipate and control psychological effects
Recognize political implications
Apply capabilities indirectly
Facilitate interagency activities
Develop multiple options
Engage the threat discriminately
Ensure long-term sustainment
Consider long-term effects
Provide sufficient intelligence
Ensure legitimacy and credibility of special operations
Balance security and synchronization

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TRADOC
SOCOM
USACAPOC(A)
U.S. Army Special Operations

Command (USASOC)
CA
PO
SF
Psychological Operations
Commandant
ARSOF HR
ARSOF
Human Resources
85th and 95th CA BDEs
U. S. Army John F. Kennedy

Special Warfare Center and School
(USAJFKSWCS)
Special Operations
Recruiting Battalion
Civil Affairs
Commandant
USASFC(A)
Special Forces
Commandant
Special Warfare Medical

Group (A)
NCOA
Capabilities Development
& Integration Directorate
CAC SOF Cell
SWMG(A)
1st SWTG(A)
1st Special Warfare

Training Group (A)
CDID
MISOC(A)
SWEG(A)
Special Warfare Education

Group (A)
SFWOI
Noncommissioned
Officers Academy
Warrant Officer
Institute
ARSOCIC
CENTER
SCHOOL
SWCS Command and Control

The United States Army Special Warfare Center and School, designated Special Operations Center of Excellence, is the United States
Armys school for professional training of Army special operations forces personnel. SWCS is also responsible for training those activeduty CA, U.S. Army Reserve Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations conventional forces. As component subordinate command
of United States Army Special Operations Command, SWCS enables ARSOF force modernization and conducts institutional training
through a headquarters, center and school. SWCS supports ARSOFs ability to conduct operations worldwide, across the Army and
USSOCOM core functions, by providing superior training, relevant doctrine, effective personnel career-management policy and doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel and facilities integration to produce the highest quality Soldiers to man the Armys premier special operations fighting forces.
Special Warfare Center

The Special Warfare Center contributes directly to the Army-wide development of special-operations Soldiers and leaders of character who can perform in complex operating environments. The center is the catalyst for change and the driver for the development
of innovative learning and doctrine products that support the institutional, operational, and self-development needs of Army specialoperations forces.
As one component of the Special Operations Center of Excellence, the staff of the center develops doctrine, training, personnel policy
and leader-development programs for ARSOF and integrates these with the U.S. Army Special Operations Command staff into coherent
force modernization programs. Within the center, there are two distinct groupings: the Army Special Operations Proponent functions,
which are carried out by the Army Special Operations Forces Human Resources Directorate, and the Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate.
The second grouping is the three Commandants and their offices that are charged with developing and integrate all branch-related
DOTMLPF programs, and champion these through USASOC into U.S. Army and U.S. Special Operations Command resourcing
forums and the Army Branch Proponent Functions.
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Army Special Operations Forces Human Resources Directorate
The ARSOF Human Resources Directorate serves as the overall personnel proponent for all SF, CA, PO officers, warrant officers and
noncommissioned officers for the three branch commandants in support of the Army assigned force-modernization mission. ARSOF HR
serves as the commanders representative on all personnel-proponent matters. It provides the branch proponents oversight and direction
in the management of all aspects of career management from recruitment through retirement for all SF, CA and PO personnel policies,
plans and programs and exercises coordinating authority over the personnel-proponent divisions. It is responsible for establishing, maintaining and updating personnel-management policies that encompass the three regiments. The directorate serves as the commanders
representative on regimental personnel matters working in collaboration with the U.S. Army Human Resources Command, Headquarters
Department of the Army and SOCOM.
The directorate is responsible for personnel-policy management for SF, CA and PO officer branches, SF warrant officers and enlisted
CMFs IAW AR 600-3. ARSOF HR is responsible for providing board guidance to HRC on all DA-level promotion, command and school
selection boards and providing analysis of board results. It conducts analysis used in developing recruiting and accession missions,
assessment and selection attendance and selection rates, qualification course attendance, attrition and graduation rates and forecasts
future strength projections for the three regiments. It applies statistical analysis for use in developing cohort data by student year groups,
additionally uses ORSA modeling for assessment and selection, qualification courses and career management to identify and minimize
attrition and sustain career-path viability. Develops, maintains, evaluates and revises the MOS and structure for SF, CA and PO, assist the
regiments with MOCS revisions and submissions and develops skill identifiers for course graduation and advanced skills.
The ARSOF HR Directorate is currently developing the ARSOF Talent Management Program that will redesign the career-development models for SF, CA and PO providing our Soldiers a career path with a precise balance of training, education and experience to
prepare them for a complex, uncertain 21st century environment.
Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate

The Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate develops doctrine, training, leadership and education for ARSOF. CDID
integrates these activities with remaining DOTMLPF functions to provide Army and joint-force commanders with professionally trained,
well-educated special-operations Soldiers capable of succeeding in all environments. The CDID ensures Army special-operations forces
are prepared for future tasks and remain relevant and capable of conducting special-operations missions unilaterally with conventional
forces or indigenous forces or in a JIIM environment.
Formed as a result of the 2011 Optimization, the CDID is a hybrid organization that has responsibility for doctrine, personnel proponency and future training, leadership and educational needs of ARSOF.
The current components of the CDID are: Army Special Operations Capabilities Integration Center; Training, Leader Development
and Education; Media Production Division; Directorate Management Office, at Fort Bragg, N.C., and the Combined Arms Center Special
Operations Forces Directorate at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Army Special Operations Capabilities Integration Center
The mission of the Army Special Operations Capabilities Integration Center is to conduct future ARSOF requirements and capabilities
analysis, concept development and joint/Army doctrine integration and development. The ARSOCIC is composed of three functional
divisions: ARSOF Future Capabilities Division, Concept Development Division and Joint and Army Doctrine Integration Division.
The ARSOF Future Capabilities Division identifies future theater special-operations command capacity and capability requirements as
they pertain to ARSOF, and ensures coordination and integration with joint SOF requirements as established by USSOCOM.
The Concept Development Division manages the development of the ARSOF concept framework, which includes supporting the development of the capstone concept, the operating concept and any functional concepts deemed necessary. It also manages the integration
of ARSOF aspects into all relevant Army and joint concepts and ensures that ARSOF contributions are included to support Department
of Defense and whole-of-government efforts to achieve national-strategic objectives. The division also assists with experiments and war
games that validate future concepts.
The Joint Army Doctrine Integration Division develops and designs the ARSOF capstone manuals. It develops and designs supporting
ARSOF doctrine. It coordinates and integrates ARSOF doctrine with the joint, combined, multi-service and Army-wide doctrinal- and
training-literature publications. It serves as the executive agent for the CDID for foreign internal defense, irregular warfare and the staffing and review of all external (combined, joint, multiservice and Army) non-proponent doctrine with ARSOF implications. JA collects,
analyzes, disseminates and integrates relevant ARSOF observations, insights and lessons into doctrine and training references. It develops
the combined-arms training strategies for foreign-internal defense, Rangers and the Sustainment Brigade.
Training, Leader Development, and Education
TLDE is a multifunctional organization that develops curriculum and training products, maintains the automation systems that support the development process and creates multimedia products to enhance training within the institution. This mission is performed
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by the three offices in TLDE; the Leader Development and Professional Military Education Office; the Capabilities Management Office;
and the Training Management Office. PME researches ARSOF leadership training and education gaps and develops corrective solutions.
It conceptualizes designs and develops adaptive-thinking and leadership training and educational materials; and it maintains mutually
supportive leadership-development efforts with joint, interagency and inter-governmental personnel. CMO provides capabilities support
to ARSOF collective training and institutional training, education and leader development in the form of doctrinally correct interactive
multimedia instruction and other learning technologies. Develops interactive multimedia instruction products, computer-based instruction, distributive-learning products and integrates the material into the institutional-training process where appropriate. CMO also collaborates with SOCOM and Army organizations to ensure appropriate learning technologies are integrated into our courses.
TMO provides staff management, coordination and system administration of training-development automation systems and integrates
SWCS products with other Army organizations. Some of the major systems are: Training Requirements Analysis System, the Automated
Systems Approach to Training, Training Development Capabilities and Combined Arms Training Strategy Development Tool. TMO
maintains the automation database archive of training products for the institution. It is instrumental in developing and maintaining
SWCSs reference publications on the training-development processes.
Media Production Division
MPD manages the translation of complex concepts into training and doctrine media products that help ARSOF Soldiers accomplish
their missions. MPD oversees the Army-wide Doctrine and Training Literature Program and Graphic Training Aid Program for SWCS.
The division is comprised of the Editorial Branch, which edits Army doctrinal manuals and supporting training products, coordinates
with external Army organizations for programming, authentication, publication and distribution; and the Visual Information Branch,
which develops all visual aspects of the products, including graphic design, layout, illustration, image editing and video editing.
Directorate Management Office
DMO supports the CDID, CA, PSYOP, SF, ARSOF HR and Quality Assurance Office by providing strategic guidance, direction, recommendations and end products involving the following programs: budget, civilian and military personnel, TDA, manpower, information
technology, taskings, facilities and other overarching programs.
Combined Arms Center Special Operations Forces Directorate
The mission of the Combined Arms Center SOF Directorate is to facilitate collaboration, integration, interoperability, and interdependence of ARSOF at the CAC in the areas of leader development, individual training and education, doctrine development, future concepts,
and lessons learned. The directorate manages ARSOF assigned to the CAC and its subordinate organizations at Fort Leavenworth to meet
requirements as prioritized by the CG, USAJFKSWCS and CAC. The directorate serves as the liaison element between the CAC, USASOC,
USAJFKSWCS and the U.S. Army Special Forces Command. The Directorate comprises one office the office of the director and three
subordinate divisions: SOF Mission Command Training Program, SOF LD&E and SOF MCCoE. The office of the director is responsible for:
synchronizing SOF efforts across doctrine, organizations, training, material, leader development, personnel, facilities and policy; integration, education, training and subject-matter expertise of special operations at the U.S. Army CAC; providing staff oversight to CACs major
subordinate units; providing direction for SOF planners supporting CAC subordinate organizations. The SOF MCTP supports combined-arms
training that replicates operations in a full-spectrum contemporary operational environment, at worldwide locations, in accordance with the
ARFORGEN process for brigades, divisions, corps, ASCCs, joint-force land component commands and joint task forces to create training
experiences that enable Army senior commanders to develop current, relevant, campaign-quality, joint and expeditionary mission-command
instincts and skills. SOF LD&E provides world-class leader-development and education opportunities, instruction and facilitation for SOF, the
Department of Defense, academic and interagency audiences. It professionally represents and educates the joint, international, interagency and
multinational community with primary emphasis on U.S. Army future leaders in Command & General Staff Officers Course, Pre-Command
Course and AMSP/SAMS.
Regimental Commandants
In accordance with Army Regulation 5-22 and under USASOCs direction, the Special Warfare Center develops doctrine, training, personnel
policy and leader development programs for ARSOF and integrates these with the USASOC staff into coherent Force Modernization programs.
The new CA, PO and SF Commandants Offices within the center all have a Personnel Proponency Division, a Doctrine Division and a Training
Development Division. The commandant for each branch is responsible for the branchs force modernization, which consists of doctrine development, training development, leader development and personnel proponency. They each provide expertise to USASOC G8 for the Organization and Materiel functions. The commandant provides the coordinated proponent position and subject-matter expertise to external agencies
and serves as the focal point for all actions and events pertaining to the branch, its Soldiers and the execution of the branch functions.
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Personnel Proponent Divisions
Critical to the success of our branches are the commandants personnel-proponent divisions are charged with developing and implementing the personnel life-cycle functions plans, programs and policies for both active- and reserve-components officers, warrant officers
and enlisted personnel readiness of our three regiments relative to the six of the eight life-cycle functions: structure, acquisition, distribution, development, deployment, compensation, sustainment and transition lifecycle management functions and each provides expertise
to USASOC G8 for the Organization and Materiel functions. The divisions liaises with the other personnel development offices in within
the Army, other military services and the U.S. Army Accessions Command, U.S. Army Recruiting Command and the Special Operations
Recruiting Battalion. It serves as a liaison with HQDA, USSOCOM, USASOC, proponent units, USAREC, TRADOC and HRC to meet
the requirements and monitors the health of the force through statistical analysis to identify trends and prepares models to determine
future requirements.
Doctrine Divisions
The Doctrine Development division manages, develops, evaluates, writes, revises, reviews, staffs, integrates and publishes branch
doctrine and training products. The divisions coordinates and integrates branch doctrine with the joint, combined, multi-service and
Army-wide doctrinal- and training-literature publications. It serves as the executive agent for the branch for the review of all external
(combined, joint, multiservice and Army) non-proponent doctrine with SOF implications. It collects, analyzes and integrates relevant
SOF observations, insights and lessons into doctrine and training references. The division continuously assesses and, if required, updates
current doctrine and develops emerging doctrine based on the mission requirements and the needs of the force.
Training Development Division
The commandants Training Development Divisions conduct training and education development for the branch Qualification and
Advanced Skills in support the branches operational units and the total Army force generation, providing active component, the Army
National Guard and the United States Army Reserve Soldiers with special-operations skill sets for employment in joint special-operations
environment. The overall goal is to optimize Soldier learning and performance, while increasing adaptability by integrating physical,
mental and interpersonal performance enhancement skills across the education and training spectrum; and provide the faculty and
learner ubiquitous access to instructional material throughout their career. Each of the commandant and commandants offices conducts
continuous analysis, design development and internal evaluation for officer and enlisted institutional individual training and education in
support of SWCSs proponent responsibilities.
Civil Affairs Commandant
The CA Commandant and CA Commandants Office provides for the oversight and management of the CA branch officer MOS,
enlisted CMF, ASIs, SQIs, SIs, LIC and PDSIs IAW AR 600-3. It is responsible for the development, production,and management of all
CA-specific unit, special skill and CMF 38 doctrine and associated publications in order to meet the needs of the operational force, as well
as ensure long-term requirements are met. It provides for the training and education analysis, design and development for CA Active and
United States Army Reserve and enlisted institutional individual training and education; and CA advanced skills in support of USAJFKSWCS proponent responsibilities. It serves as a liaison between SWCS, USAR and with USAR CA units and provides customer service
for USAR Special Operations Forces Soldiers attending SWCS courses and programs. It provides curriculum and program arbitration,
collaborating with branch units and 1st SWTG(A) to ensure the needs of the force and the capacity and capabilities of the SWCS are balanced to produce the best Soldier and leader possible.
Psychological Operations Commandant
The PSYOP Commandant and PSYOP Commandants Office provides for the oversight and management of the PSYOP branch officer
MOS, enlisted CMF, ASIs, SQIs, SIs, LIC and PDSIs IAW AR 600-3. It is responsible for the development, production, and management
of all PSYOP-specific unit, special skill, and CMF 37 doctrine and associated publications in order to meet the needs of the operational
force, as well as ensure long term requirements. It provides for the training and education analysis, design and development for CA Active
and United States Army Reserve and enlisted institutional individual training and education; and PSYOP advanced skills in Support of
USAJFKSWCS proponent responsibilities. It serves as a liaison between SWCS, USAR and with USAR PSYOP units and provides customer service for USAR Special Operations Forces Soldiers attending SWCS courses and programs. It provides curriculum and program
arbitration, collaborating with branch units and 1st SWTG(A) to ensure the needs of the force and the capacity and capabilities of the
SWCS are balanced to produce the best Soldier and leader possible.
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Special Forces Commandant
The SF Commandant and SF Commandants Office provides for the oversight and management of the SF branch officer MOS, warrant officer MOS, enlisted CMF, ASIs, SQIs, SIs, LIC, and PDSIs IAW AR 600-3. It is responsible for the development, production, and
management of all SF-specific unit, special skill, and CMF18 doctrine and associated publications in order to meet the needs of the operational force, as well as ensure long term requirements. It provides for the Training and Education Analysis, Design, and Development
for Special Forces Active and National Guard Officers and enlisted institutional individual training and education; and Special Forces
advanced skills in support of USAJFKSWCS proponent responsibilities. It serves as a liaison between SOCoE, NGB and with ARNG
special-operations forces units and provides customer service for ARNG Soldiers attending SWCS courses and programs. It provides
curriculum and program arbitration, collaborating with USASFC and 1st SWTG(A) to ensure the needs of the force and the capacity
and capabilities of the SWCS are balanced to produce the best Special Forces Soldier and leader possible. The Special Forces Commandant office organizational structure is comprised of four divisions dedicated to providing the Regiment with comprehensive and relevant
Doctrine, current and relevant institutional foundation and advanced skills Training and Education, predictive and administered Force
Management, and coordinated and focused National Guard support. The Army National Guard serves as focal point for USAJFKSWCS
commanding general and Staff regarding all Army National Guard issues. The ARNG serves as liaison between SWCS, NGB and with the
units in the states with ARNG MTOE units and provides customer service for ARNG Soldiers attending SWCS courses and programs. It
eliminates administrative barriers between SWCS and NGB in order to facilitate MOS qualification of ARNG soldiers.
Special Warfare School

The Special Warfare School trains and educates Army and joint-service warfighters and professionals ready to support unified operations; develops and integrates globally executable special-operations capabilities supporting joint-force mission success. The school
conducts resident courses for enlisted Soldiers, warrant officers and commissioned officers, as well as for and Department of the Army
civilians, joint-service special-operations warfighters and international military students in military-exchange programs. The institutional
training arm consists of the: 1st Special Warfare Training Group (A); Special Warfare Education Group (A); Special Warfare Medical
Group (A); the Warrant Officer Institute; and the Noncommissioned Officer Academy.
1st Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne) [1st SWTG(A)]

The 1st Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne) develops U.S. Army Special Forces, Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations
Soldiers by providing superior entry-level through advanced training and education. The SWTG serves as the center of gravity for SOF
institutional training, ensuring that special operators are developed with the best capabilities available to produce a full-spectrum specialoperations force prepared to work independently or as part of a combined, joint, interagency effort through or with indigenous partner
forces to address the diverse range of threats posed by an uncertain 21st-century environment.
1st Battalion: Trains entry-level Special Forces Soldiers to succeed in combat on an SFOD-A. The training consists of tactical combat skills that include squad- through company-level tactics, Level C survival techniques enables students to apply the Code of Conduct
in order to survive and return home with honor, basic military-occupational specialty training and unconventional-warfare instruction
conducted in urban and rural locations throughout central North Carolina.
2nd Battalion: Trains SOF and other selected personnel in advanced special-operations skills, techniques, tactics and procedures.
Implements and evaluates associated doctrine, then deploys military training teams worldwide in support of regional combatant commanders and Department of Defense missions.
3rd Battalion: Trains and educates Army officers, NCOs and Advanced Individual Training Soldiers in Civil Affairs.
4th Battalion: Utilizing the Instructor ODAs and ODBs the cadre trains, advises, manages, counsels and provides mentorship to all assigned
students (U.S. and foreign) in the Special Forces Qualification Course in order to produce expertly trained and well-prepared SF Soldiers.
5th Battalion: Trains and educates Army officers, NCOs and AIT Soldiers in Psychological Operations.
6th Battalion: Trains and educates Green Berets, joint special-operations forces and other selected interagency personnel to conduct
specialized intelligence and operational activities in order to provide them an unmatched capability to understand and address the diverse
threats of the 21st century.
Support Battalion: Sustains the training force through the forecast and management of eight fundamental commodities consisting of
communication and electronics, armament, aerial delivery, transportation, food service, publications, facilities and central-issue facility.
In concert with the commodities, the Support Battalion oversees a number of logistics-management programs that enhance training efforts. The Support Battalion has a support detachment forward to support the separate entities training at Camp Mackall, which encompasses transportation, maintenance, food service, armament, C&E and installation support.
SWCS organization
Special Warfare Education Group (Airborne) [SWEG(A)]

SWEG produces agile, adaptive-thinking Soldiers while acting as an intellectual repository as well as an incubator of emerging thought
and creative ideas in regional studies, foreign language, culture, adaptive thinking and leadership, behavioral science and education.
One of the key areas of training is the Foreign Language Initial Acquisition Program, which is second only to the Defense Language
Institute in its throughput. Annually, more than 1,400 CA, PSYOP and SF Soldiers go through the programs seven core languages, which
require a minimum of a 1/1 as measured by the twoskill oral-proficiency interview for graduation.
Once Soldiers graduate from training, they continue to have access to language and culture training through the contingency and sustainment language-support program, which is a network of satellite training facilities wherever ARSOF are located. The program has as its
mission the maintenance of ARSOF operational skills at a minimum of 1/1 up to a 2/2, level of understanding. More than 8,500 Soldiers
are trained through this program each year.
The foundational program for ARSOF civilian education is the SWCS Associates Program. The SWCS Associates Program provides
experiential credit for qualification-course completion along with accredited partner civilian-school select classes to award all qualification course graduates associates degrees, producing academically grounded ARSOF Soldiers for the force. This program primarily addresses entry-level enlisted Soldiers.
The intermediate civilian-education program is the SWCS Bachelors Program. The SWCS Bachelors Program builds on the 60 credit
hour associates degree awarded through the SWCS Associates Program and forwards those credits for full acceptance with SWCS
SOCAD-partner schools for continuation with select accredited bachelors programs. This 2 + 2 credit concept allows for maximum
efficiency and decreases the nonlinear progression of previous degree programs. This program produces operational-level academically
credentialed ARSOF Soldiers. This program primarily addresses mid-career enlisted and entry-level warrant officers.
The advanced civilian-education program is the SWCS Masters Program. The SWCS Masters Program aligns eligible ARSOF candidates (officer, NCO and warrant officer) with desirable master-level programs producing strategic-level academically credentialed ARSOF
Soldiers for the force. The program primarily addresses senior enlisted and mid-career level officers and warrant officers.
The SWCS Permanent Professorship Program provides terminal (doctorate-level) degrees to SWCS cadre to provide academic credentialing and interaction with civilian academia, modeled after the USMA Professor Program. 2013 marks the first year that Soldiers are
enrolled in the program.
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Welcome to SWCS
Special Warfare Medical Group (Airborne) [SWMG(A)]
The Special Warfare Medical Group, in conjunction with the Naval Special Operations Medical Institute, composes the Joint Special
Operations Medical Training Center. The JSOMTC, located on the SWCS campus, educates and trains the full spectrum of United States
Special Operations Command combat medics through superior teaching and instruction based on educational goals and curriculum
development that is synchronized with the requirements of the force. The JSOMTC creates well-educated and professionally trained SOF
combat medics with a solid understanding of the knowledge and skills required by the force to provide standard-of-care medical treatment, regardless of the conditions. This ensures they have a thorough foundation in medicine that fosters a career of life-long learning in
order to adapt to ever-changing medical challenges posed by an uncertain operational environment. The JSOMTC is housed in a 75,000
square-foot facility. More than 1,400 students attend the center annually from within SOCOM.
Warrant Officer Institute (WOI)

The Special Forces Warrant Officer Institute, located in Kennedy Hall on the SWCS Main Campus, is an adaptive and collaborative learning institution that provides the most current and relevant professional military education for Special Forces warrant officers
at every level of their career in support of operational requirements. The Special Forces Warrant Officer Institute supports all of the
lifelong learning requirements of both warrant officer candidates and senior warrant officers in the 180A MOS. The institute educates,
mentors, trains and appoints warrant-officer candidates to the grade of WO1 as well as provides education and training to senior warrant officers at key points in their career. The institute produces highly capable combat leaders who are capable of planning and executing Special Forces missions.
The Special Forces Warrant Officer Technical and Tactical Certification Course is conducted in two iterations each year. The 20-week
course results in the appointment and qualification of selected SF Soldiers as WO1s in MOS 180A. The SFWOTTCC conducts Army
BOLC and SF proponent-based MEL 7 training and education to provide the force with skilled assistant detachment commanders.
The Special Forces Warrant Officer Advanced Course provides proponent-based MEL 6 professional military education to mid-grade
SF WOs to prepare them to serve as operational-level planners and operations officers in SF units, component commands, joint-task
forces and joint staffs as subject-matter experts in UW and FID.
The Warrant Officer Staff Course phase III is an MOS-specific phase of MEL 4 conducted after the Warrant Officer Career Colleges core-subject staff course. Educating senior SF Warrant Officers (CW3 and CW4) in the application of unified land operations and
planning at the operational level in order to serve as a staff officer at the SF Group and theater-level, it produces an operational warfare
planner, capable of operating in geographic combatant commands and theater special-operations commands who can creatively and effectively conceptualize and design strategies in support of national and strategic policy.
Noncommissioned Officers Academy (NCOA)

The David K. Thuma NCO Academy serves as SWCSs premier generating force for implementing and assisting with design and development for the Warrior Leader, Advanced and Senior Leader courses, ensuring the highest quality of training, education and professional
development for all special-operations NCOs.
The NCOA is taking the lead within USASOC by ensuring professional military education for CMF 18, 37 and 38 series NCOs meets
the Army standards, educates and prepares Soldiers to enhance battlefield interoperability and understanding of operational capabilities
and limitations.
The NCOA trains Soldiers who have not completed WLC prior to attending their qualification course. These Soldiers receive leadership, situational exercises and physical-fitness training to prepare them for the rigors and requirements to complete their respective
qualification courses. Cadre focuses on preparing Soldiers to have the warrior mind-set and mentoring them to understand their future as
an ARSOF team member.
The NCOA is taking the lead to ensure all Soldiers attending the Q-courses receive credit for ALC-CC. ALC-CC lessons are predominantly taught through the ARSOF pipelines. The NCOA will instruct ALC-CC required lesson not taught in the pipeline to ensure all
students graduate their Q-course as ALC complete
The SWCS NCOA is the Army NCOES leader in distributed learned at the SLC level, and is a model of excellence for all other NCOAs
Army-wide. The NCOA produces a more adaptive, flexible and intuitive thinking NCO across the first three NCOES levels in three distinct ARSOF CMFs and will continue to be at the forefront of using the appropriate combination of emerging technologies and traditional
classroom instruction to achieve these results.
SWCS
SWCS
training
organization
locations
1 - Main Campus - Fort Bragg N.C.
SWCS main campus is located on Fort Bragg, N.C. and is home to the NCO Academy, the Warrant Officer Institute, the Joint Special Operations
Medical Training Center, as well as language training at the Special Warfare Education Group. See page 17 for detailed facility information.
2 - Camp Mackall, N.C.

SWCSs satellite campus at
Camp Mackall is operated by
the 1st Special Warfare Training Group and is home to all
field training. The facility,
which occupies land in
Hoke and Moore counties,
houses the Rowe Training
Facility, FOB Freedom,
the SERE Complex and the
Special Forces Preparatory
Training Complex.
3 - Central North Carolina
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We like to say the state of North

Carolina is also part of our satellite
campus. Our Special Forces unconventionalwarfare exercise, Robin Sage, as well as portions of Certain
Trust, the culminating exercise for CA and MISO, are run
throughout 16 rural counties of North Carolina, encompassing more than 8,500 square miles, these exercises are successful
because of the volunteer support of the local citizens.
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4 - Richmond, Va., and Tampa and St. Petersburg, Fla.
7 - Fort Carson, Colo.
After completing 21 weeks of didactic and hands-on medical training at the JSOMTC, Special Operations Combat Medic
students perform a four-week clinical internship in civilian trauma
centers working alongside hospital and emergency medical services providers. Internship training enhances the SOCM students
patient-assessment and management skills on a wide variety of
emergent medical and traumatic conditions.
The U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School
Mountaineering Program is conducted at Fort Carson, Colo., under the auspices of A Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Special Warfare
Training Group (A).
5 - Key West, Fla.

The Special Forces Underwater Operations School trains selected
special-operations forces personnel as open-circuit combat
divers through the SF Combat Diver Qualification Course, SF
Combat Diving Supervisor Course and the SF Diving Medical
Technician Course.
6 - Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

The SOF Cell located at the Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kan., has oversight of ARSOF instruction in ILE and the
newly founded Interagency Masters Program at Kansas University.
8 - Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz.

The U.S. Military Free Fall School trains selected SOF, Department of
Defense and foreign personnel in military free-fall operations, including the MFF Parachutist Course, MFF Jumpmaster Course, MFF
Instructor Course and the Advanced Tactical Infiltration Course.
9 - Fort Lewis, Wash.

Additional advanced skills are taught at Ft. Lewis.
10 - San Diego, Calif.

6th Battalion, 1st Special Warfare Training Group conducts advanced training.
11 - National Capitol Region

6th Battalion, 1st Special Warfare Training Group conducts advanced training.
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Civil
Welcome
Affairs
to
courses
SWCS
Civil Affairs Assessment and Selection
Course Number: 5D-F11/570-F24
Fort Bragg, Camp Mackall
Class Size: 111
See ATTRS for Class Dates
Rank: 1st LT (P) - CPT and SPC-SFC Component: Active

Location:
Clearance: Interim Secret
Iterations: 9 per year
Course Duration: 1 week
Prerequisites: N/A
Scope: Psychological assessments, intellectual assessments, physical assessments and individual and team (dilemma-based)
problem-solving assessments.
Course Description: The Civil Affairs Assessment and Selection, assesses then selects U.S. Army active-component conventional
and special-operations forces CA candidates, both officer and enlisted, for trainability and suitability to attend their respective
CA Qualification Course. Assessments are conducted throughout the course based on individual or team requirements focusing
on physical fitness and confidence events, intelligence and psychological evaluations and dilemma-based problem-solving events.
Candidates are then selected based on their capabilities to epitomize the ARSOF attributes and their performance in the assessment events.
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CA Active Duty Qualification Course
Introduction
to CA
Language
and Culture
PHASE I: 2 Weeks
Introduction to Civil Affairs

CA History
CA Core Tasks
Civil Affairs Operations
Whole of Gevernment and NGO
Family Programs
PHASE II: 24 Weeks
French, Indonesian-Bahasa, Spanish, Arabic,

Chinese-Mandarin, Czech, Dari, Hungarian,
Korean, Pashto, Persian-Farsi, Polish,
Russian, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish and Urdu
Use of Interpreters
Must pass Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI)
before beginning Phase III
Progressive PT Program
CULEX
Graduation
PHASE IV: 3 Weeks
CA Culmination Exercise
Deliberate Mission Planning and Analysis
CA Assessment Practical Exercises
Adaptive Leader Application
Negotiation and Mediation with Cultural
Role Players
Language and Culture Application
PHASE V: 1 Week
Regimental indoctrination
Operational Assignment
Individual Academic Achievement Awards
Graduation
Credentialed as a CA Officer or NCO
CA Core
PHASE III: 12 Weeks
Branch and MOS

Core Competencies and Tasks
Adaptive Leader Methodology
Negotiation and Mediation
Link Anaysis Processes
Civil System Analysis
POLMIL Analysis
CA Mission Analysis and Deliberate
Planning
Civil Affairs > Active

CAQC Duty
Civil Affairs Specialist Qualification, 38B
Course Number: 570-38B30 (ZZ)
Rank: SPC-SFC Component: Active
Proponent: 3rd Bn., 1st SWTG
Location: Fort Bragg, Camp Mackall
Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 112
Course Duration: 42 weeks
See ATTRS for course dates

Prerequisites: The active Army 38B military occupational specialty is open for reclassification of NCOs in grade E4 or E7. NCOs
must meet all requirements for initial award of the MOS as prescribed in DA PAM 611-21, Military Occupational Classification
and Structure; must be a graduate of Warrior Leaders Course or its equivalent; and must possess a qualifying Defense Language
Aptitude Battery score in accordance with AR 611-6; must meet height/weight standards outlined in AR 600-9 and medical fitness
standards outlined in AR 40-501; must have passed the Army Physical Fitness Test with a minimum of 70 points in each event and
an overall score of 210 points or above (scored in Soldiers age group [IAW TC3-22.20]) prior to arrival at Fort Bragg, N.C.
Scope: Plan, execute and transition tactical-level CA operations in support of civil-military operations. CAO training focuses on
the CA core tasks; support to civil administration, foreign-humanitarian assistance, populace and resource control, nation assistance and civil-information management; adaptive thinking and leadership; encompassing negotiations and mediations; program
management, Civil Affairs systems analysis, political-military analysis; and Regional Studies. Upon completion of the course,
students will be language qualified. Overall training is mission-oriented and encompasses language and culture, during the handson use of CAO/CMO doctrinal procedures during practical exercises and a culminating exercise that exposes students to realistic
operational situations and environmental elements.
Course Description: The NCO CAQC trains and educates selected U.S. Army NCOs in capabilities to operate on a CA team as a
team member or team sergeant; to assist in planning and conducting tactical CA operations and to synchronize their effects with
the supported commander and staff. Further, the course trains selected U.S. Army NCOs as adaptive, culturally aware, languagequalified CA specialists.
CA Officer Qualification
Course Number: 5D-38A (ZZ)
Rank: 1LT(P) - CPT Component: Active

Class Size: 64

Clearance: Secret
Prerequisites: U.S. Army first lieutenants (P) and captains who are graduates of the Captains Career Course, or equivalent; must
be assigned to, or on orders to a CA officer position; must meet DA Pam 600-3 requirements for CA Branch (38A); must meet
height/weight standards outlined in AR 600-9 and medical fitness standards outlined in AR 40-501; must have passed the Army
Physical Fitness Test with a minimum of 70 points in each event and an overall score of 210 points or above (scored in Soldiers age
group [IAW TC3-22.20]) prior to arrival at Fort Bragg, N.C.
Scope: Plan, execute and transition tactical-level CA operations in support of civil-military operations. CAO training focuses on
the CA core tasks; support to civil administration, foreign-humanitarian assistance, populace and resource control, nation assistance and civil-information management; adaptive thinking and leadership; encompassing negotiations and mediations; program
management, Civil Affairs systems analysis, political-military analysis; and Regional Studies. Upon completion of the course,
students will be language-qualified. Overall training is mission-oriented and encompasses language and culture, during the handson use of CAO/CMO doctrinal procedures during practical exercises and a culminating exercise that exposes students to realistic
operational situations and environmental elements.
Course Description: The CAQC trains and educates selected U.S. Army captains in capabilities to lead a CA team; plan and
conduct tactical CA operations and synchronize their effects with the supported commander and staff. Further, the course trains
selected U.S. Army captains as adaptive, culturally aware, language-qualified leaders.
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Civil Affairs > Reserve

CAQC
CA Reserve Officer Qualification Course
Intro to CA,
Systems Analysis &
CA Planning
PHASE I - ONLINE
6 Months
Basic Branch Skills, Knowledge & Ability
Culture
Adaptive Thinking and Leadership (ATL)
CA Political Military Analysis
CA Core &
CULEX
PHASE II - RESIDENT
29 Days
Civil Information Management
Support to Civil Administration
Nation Assistance
Foreign Humanitarian Assistance
Populace & Resources Control
Project Management
CA Operations
Culex (SLUSS-TILLER)
Credentialed as a CA Officer or NCO
Civil Affairs Qualification (CA Officer) Phase 1 (Reserve)

Course Number: 5D-38A (RC) (DL)
Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 64
Iterations: Annual
Rank: 1LT(P) - CPT
Component: Reserve
Location: DL
Course Duration: 6 months
Prerequisites: Only open to U.S. military officers currently filling CA officer positions with the reserve or guard component who desire
to branch transfer. Must be Captains Career Course or equivalent graduates. Must meet DA Pam 600-3 requirements for CA Branch
(38A); must possess a secret security clearance (interim secret clearances are acceptable to attend the course); must possess a baccalaureate degree, preferably in a social/political science or discipline related to one of the CA functional specialties; must meet height/weight
standards outlined in AR 600-9; must have passed the APFT with a minimum of 70 points in each event and an overall score of 210
points or above (scored in Soldiers age group [IAW TC3-22.20]) prior to arrival at Fort Bragg, N.C.
Course Description: The Officer CAQC trains and educates U.S. Army captains in capabilities to lead a CA team; plan and
selected U.S. Army captains as adaptive, culturally aware leaders.
Civil Affairs Qualification (CA Officer) Phase 2 (Reserve)

Course Number: 5D-38A (RC)
Class Size: 64
Rank: 1LT(P) - CPT

Location: Fort Bragg
Component: Reserve
Clearance: Secret
Prerequisites: Only open to U.S. military officers currently filling CA officer positions with the reserve or guard component who desire
to branch transfer. Must be Captains Career Course or equivalent graduates. Must meet DA Pam 600-3 requirements for CA Branch
(38A); must possess a secret security clearance (interim secret clearances are acceptable to attend the course); must possess a baccalaureate degree, preferably in a social/political science or discipline related to one of the CA functional specialties; must meet height/weight
standards outlined in AR 600-9; must have passed the APFT with a minimum of 70 points in each event and an overall score of 210
points or above (scored in Soldiers age group [IAW TC3-22.20]) prior to arrival at Fort Bragg, N.C.
Course Description: The Officer CAQC trains and educates U.S. Army captains in capabilities to lead a CA team; plan and
selected U.S. Army captains to be adaptive, culturally aware leaders.
Civil Affairs > Reserve

CAQC
CA Specialist, 38B (Reserve AIT)

Course Number: 570-38B10
Rank: PV1 - SPC Component: Reserve
Fort Bragg, Camp Mackall
Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 60
Location:

Prerequisites: Must be USAR Soldier meeting the initial-entry requirements for award of MOS 38B as described in DA
PAM 611-21 and a graduate of Basic Combat Training.
Scope: To train USAR initial-entry training Soldiers on the 38B Individual Skill Level 1 critical tasks. During this course, students
will be imbued with the warrior ethos capable of executing and transitioning CAO across the full spectrum of operations in all
environments; and become adaptive and culturally aware. Students will learn to work as a team to prepare, execute and transition
CAO. Students will understand the fundamentals of analyzing roles and missions of CA through the assessment of areas, structures, capabilities, organizations, people and events of an operational environment to determine their impact on U.S. military operations. Training is mission-oriented, with maximum hands-on use of CAO doctrinal procedures through practical exercises and
a field-training exercise that exposes students to COEs. The FTX is conducted at academic course completion to evaluate students
ability to perform 38B Skill Level 1 critical tasks in a field-training environment.
Course Description: The CA Advanced Individual Training Course trains and educates U.S. Army Reserve initial-entry Soldiers in
capabilities to operate on a CA team; to participate in preparing and executing tactical CA operations. Further, the course trains U.S.
Army initial-entry Soldiers as culturally aware CA specialists who are proficient in all TRADOC AIT requirements.
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Civil Affairs > Other

CAQC
CA Training (Sister Services and Foreign Students)
Course Number: 5D-38A(X/OS)
Class Size: 10
Clearance:

Prerequisites: Must be sister-service officer in the grade of 03 or 04, or an allied officer with a valid quota for attendance.
Scope: This is not a branch-producing course. This course will focus on CA doctrine and organization; CA core competencies; CA
systems analysis; and planning and execution of CA core tasks, CAO and CMO. The course consists of the following modules: 38A
core training and a culmination exercise.
Course Description: The CA Training Course trains and educates allied and sister-service officers in capabilities to lead a CA
team; plan and conduct tactical CA operations and synchronize their effects with the supported commander and staff. Further, the
course trains allied and sister-service officers as adaptive, culturally aware leaders.
Cultural Support Assessment and Selection

Course Number: 9E-F44/920-F37
Rank: E4-E8, W01-CW3 and 01-03 Clearance: Interim Secret
Location: Fort Bragg and Camp Mackall
Class Size: 120
Course Duration: 1 week
Prerequisites: Must be a Department of Defense female; must be a volunteer; must not be flagged; must have a GT score of 100 or
better; meet the medical fitness standards IAW A 40-501 with a PULHES rating of 111221 or better; must meet height and weight
standards IAW AR 600-9; meet the standard of 80 points in each event or better on the APFT and a minimum overall score of 240;
must possess a secret security clearance, with a minimum of at least an interim secret security clearance; enlisted E4 to E8; warrant
officers WO1 to CW3; officers O1 to O3. Any variation from the above prerequisites requires a waiver from the CA Directorate.
Scope: Assess and select volunteers for attributes and competencies required to be a member of a Cultural Support Team. During
this course, candidates will be assessed psychologically, intellectually and physically; assessments consist of individual physical fitness/confidence events, intelligence/psychological exams/assessments and problem-solving (dilemma-based) team assessment.
Course Description: The CST assessment and selection assesses then selects branch/MOS immaterial female officers, warrant officers and enlisted volunteers for trainability and suitability to attend the CS Training. Assessments are conducted throughout the
course, based on individual or team requirements focusing on physical fitness and confidence events, intelligence and psychological evaluations and dilemma-based problem-solving events. Candidates are then selected based on their capabilities to epitomize
the ARSOF attributes and their performance in the assessments .
Cultural Support Training

Class Size: 60
Rank: E4-E8, W01-CW3 and 01-03
Course Duration: 29 days
Prerequisites: DoD females only. Selected from the Cultural Support Team Assessment and Selection, Civil Affairs Assessment
and Selection or the Psychological Operations Assessment and Selection. Secret security clearance.
Scope: Train volunteer female officers, warrant officers and enlisted personnel to operate as members of a CST supporting SOF operations. During this course, students will learn how to support varying aspects of SOF missions by receiving instruction on cultural
awareness, regional culture and language reinforcement, mental and emotional endurance; personal interactions with locals and media;
information operations; civil-information management and site exploitation. Training is mission-oriented, with maximum hands-on
participation throughout lessons and practical exercises, which culminates in a CST mission-objective field-training exercise.
Course Description: The CST Training Course trains and educates selected female officers, warrant officers and enlisted Soldiers in
the basic capabilities required to access relevant female and adolescent populations as members of a CST in support of ARSOF operations and in the accomplishment of tasks that would be deemed culturally inappropriate if performed by male Soldiers. Education
focuses on general culture, regional culture and language, mental and emotional endurance, civil information and intelligence collection and utilizing interpreters.
PSYOP Courses
PSYOP Assessment and Selection
Fort Bragg
Class Size: 48
Rank: SPC-SSG, 1LT(P) - CPT

Iterations: TBD
Component: Active Duty Location:

Course Duration: 1 week 2 days
Scope: Psychological assessments, intellectual assessments, physical assessments and problem-solving (dilemma-based) team
event assessments.
Course Description: To assess ARSOF PSYOP candidates for trainability and suitability to attend the qualification course. Each
individual is assessed for trainability and suitability based on the attributes defined in DA Pam 600-3 as well as the ARSOF attributes. Assessments are conducted throughout the course and consist of individual physical fitness/confidence events, intelligence/psychological exams/assessments, and individual and team problem solving (dilemma-based) assessments.
PSYOP Active Duty Qualification Course
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The 45 week resident course synchronizes NCO and officer training combining the two together for maximum training benefit in
major course events. Upon completion of the course, the MOS or Branch is awarded to the graduate.
In-processing: Students will PCS to Fort Bragg and complete two weeks of in-processing before beginning the qualification course.
Prerequisites: Students must complete the PSYOP Selection and Assessment and be selected.
In-Processing
Language and Culture
MISO Core
PHASE I: 2 Weeks
PHASE II: 2 Weeks
PHASE III: 11 Weeks
In-process to Qualification Course after PCS

to Ft. Bragg
Introduction to MISO
MISO History
MISO Core Tasks
MISO Planning and Operations
Whole of Government and NGO
Information Operations
Family Programs
Cat I & II:

French, Indonesian-Bahasa and Spanish
Cat III & IV:
Arabic, Chinese-Mandarin, Czech, Dari,
Hungarian, Korean, Pashto, Persian-Farsi,
Polish, Russian, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, and
Urdu
Use of Interpreters
Must pass Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI)
before beginning Phase III
Branch and MOS

Core Competencies and Tasks
Negotiation, Mediation and Influence
Target Audience Analysis
Social-Cultural analysis and understanding
Basic Cultural Competency
Media production and dissemination
management
Psychological effects of military activities
Information Management
CULEX
Graduation
PHASE IV: 3 Weeks
MISO Culmination Exercise

Deliberate Mission Planning and Analysis
Target Audience Analysis Application
Social-Cultural Analysis Application
Information Management Application
Adaptive Leader Application
Negotiation and Mediation with Cultural
Role Players
Inter-Agency Planning Exercise
PHASE V: 1 Week
Regimental indoctrination
Operational Assignment
Graduation
Credentialed as a PSYOP Officer or NCO
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PSYOP > Active Duty

PSYOP Specialist Qualification Course
Course Number: 243-37F30 (ZZ)
Fort Bragg
Class Size: 40
Rank: SPC - SSG

Clearance: Secret

Prerequisites: Active Army Soldiers must meet all requirements for

initial award of the MOS as prescribed in DA PAM 611-21, Military
Occupational Classification and Structure. The Active Army 37F MOS
is open for reclassification of Active Army E6 and below with a minimum of two years of active federal service. Soldiers must be a graduate of Warrior Leaders Course or its equivalent. Must possess a secret
security clearance (interim secret clearances are acceptable to attend
the course). Active Army Soldiers must be airborne qualified prior
to arriving to SWCS to attend training. Active Army Soldiers must
have a qualifying DLAB score IAW AR 611-6. Any variation from the
above standards requires a waiver from the CG, SWCS.
Scope: The PSYOP Specialist (ZZ) Course provides an introduction
to MISO; MISO doctrine, organization and employment; MISO development process; marketing and advertising principles; social and
behavioral science; adaptive leadership techniques; language; public
diplomacy; interagency; Army digital training; political/military
analysis; contemporary issues and MISO. This course consists of the
following modules: Module A supports all administrative course requirements including in/out processing, airborne-refresher training
and administration of the APFT. Module B introduces the student
to the current MISO capabilities of the Department of Defense and
other government agencies and provides the skills and knowledge
necessary to perform PSYOP specialist critical tasks. Module C introduces the student to the characteristics and common components
of culture, identifies the basic principles of human behavior and
determines factors leading to radicalization of cultures and provides
an overview of terrorism. Module D provides the students the required scientific knowledge to perform the functions of MISO
by influencing hostile, friendly and neutral target audiences to accept or comply with U.S. policy goals and objectives. Module E provides the students with an understanding of how MIS products and actions are conceived and developed, designed,
produced, approved, distributed, disseminated and evaluated. This module also instructs the students on the duties, roles and
responsibilities of tactical-level MISO, the concept of face-to-face communications with a target audience at the tactical level,
how to systematically analyze adversarial propaganda and the techniques available to counter. Module F trains the students how
the MISO staff NCO integrates, synchronizes and coordinates MISO plans and objectives with the supporting units plans and
objectives using the military decision-making process. Module G trains Soldiers to operate the digitized FBCB2 equipment and
familiarizes the Soldiers on other systems within the Army Battle Command System suite. Module H introduces the students
to critical tactical MISO tasks under field conditions through a series of situational training exercises. Cadre members assess
each STX scenario and provide immediate feedback through after action reports. Module I places the student in operational
situations where they must demonstrate their ability to perform certain MISO tasks to standard (validation of specific MISO
critical tasks). This FTX stresses the meaning of and necessity of adaptability in the MISO environment, and the use of effective
cognitive strategies for handling changes in the environment. Students must demonstrate interpersonal adaptability, interacting
and negotiating effectively with diverse others, including people from different cultures, and demonstrate skills associated with
leading and developing an adaptive team.
Course Description: The PSYOP Specialist (ZZ) Course trains and qualifies active-Army Soldiers in the basic skills and competencies required to perform duties as a PSYOP NCO on a tactical MIS team. The graduate statement for a MISO Soldier in 2010 is: a
skilled Soldier imbued with the warrior ethos; capable of planning, executing and transitioning MISO across the full spectrum of
operations in all environments; executing joint, interagency, multinational or coalition operations; able to operate in technologically superior as well as austere environments; responsive to asymmetrical challenges; adaptive and comfortable with ambiguity;
culturally aware, regionally focused and language-capable.
Military>Information
PSYOP
Active DutySupport Operations > MISOQC
PSYOP Officer Qualification Course
Course Number: 5E-37A (ZZ)
Fort Bragg
Class Size: 12
Rank: 1LT(P) - CPT

Clearance: Secret

Prerequisites: Active Army first lieutenants

(promotable) and captains who have completed
and been selected from the PSYOP Assessment and
Selection Course, and are graduates of the Captains
Career Course, or equivalent. Officers must be
assigned to, or on orders to a PSYOP officer position. The officer must meet DA Pam 600-3 requirements for the PSYOP Branch (37A). Must possess a
secret-security clearance (interim secret clearances
are acceptable to attend the course). Must possess a
baccalaureate degree, preferably in a social/political science or discipline related to MISO functions.
Active Army officers successfully completing this
course will be awarded Branch 37A. Active Army
officers must be airborne-qualified or volunteer for
airborne training. Any variation from the above
standards requires a waiver from the CG, SWCS.
Scope: Students will define special staff relationships that affect MISO, determine adequacy and
integration of MISO into military operations,
coordinate with government organizations, nongovernmental organizations and international organizations, synchronize MISO activities within the overall
information-operations campaign plan, and define
the organization and capabilities of MISO units that
provide support to joint and combined operations.
This course consists of nine modules: Module A supports all administrative course requirements including in/out processing, airborne
refresher training and administration of the APFT. Module B introduces the student to the current MISO capabilities of the Department of Defense and other government agencies and provides the skills and knowledge necessary to perform MISO officer critical
tasks. Module C introduces the student to the characteristics and common components of culture, identifies the basic principles of human behavior, determines factors leading to radicalization of cultures and provides an overview of terrorism. Module D provides the
students the required scientific knowledge to perform MISO functions by influencing enemy, friendly and neutral target audiences to
accept or comply with U.S. policy goals and objectives. Module E introduces the seven-step MISO development process and provides
the students with an understanding of how MISO products and actions are conceived, developed, designed, produced, approved,
distributed, disseminated and evaluated. Module F provides the students with an understanding of how the staff officer integrates,
synchronizes and coordinates MISO plans and objectives with the supporting units plans and objectives, using the military decisionmaking process. Module G provides officer familiarization training on the Asymmetrical Software Kit (ASK) used by ARSOF. The
module trains the officer to conduct regional analyses using the PMESIIE-PT system of analysis. Module I places the student in a
field-training exercise that simulates operational situations where they must demonstrate their ability to perform certain MISO tasks
to standard (validation of specific officer critical tasks) in support of Phase I thru Phase V of a joint task force mission.
Course Description: This course is designed to train active- and reserve-component officers in those identified critical tasks to
the performance of duties within PSOP Branch 37. Students will be imbued with the warrior ethos; capable of planning, executing
and transitioning MISO across the full spectrum of operations in all environments; executing joint, interagency, multi-national or
coalition operations; able to operate in technologically superior as well as austere environments; responsive to asymmetrical challenges; adaptive and comfortable with ambiguity; culturally aware, regionally focused and language-capable. Students will analyze
the roles and missions of MISO through the assessment of the political military factors, U.S. foreign policy, MISO studies, hostnation infrastructure, capabilities, organizations, people and events of an operational environment to determine their psychological impact on U.S. military operations.
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PSYOP > Reserve
1 2
PSYOP Reserve Officer Qualification Course
This two phase course was designed to provide Soldiers with high-quality training while maximizing time at home. Students must
complete Phase I online prior to attending the Phase II resident course.
Intro to MISO,
Human Behavior &
Analysis
PHASE I - ONLINE
6 Months
Basic Branch Skills, Knowledge & Ability
Culture
Adaptive Thinking and Leadership (ATL)
Human Behavior
Influencing Human Behavior
Operational and Strategic Analysis
Regional Target Audience Analysis
MISO Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTP)
PSYOP Core &
CULEX
PHASE II - RESIDENT
29 Days
Military Information Support Operations Process
Approval
Planning
Production, Distribution and
Target Audience Analysis
Dissemination
Series Development
Product Development & Design Evaluation
Tactical MISO
Employment
Propaganda Analysis & Counterpropaganda Operations
MISO Table of Organization & Equipment (TO&E)
MISO Collective Task Exercise (CULEX)
PSYOP Reserve Officer Qualification Course Phase 1

Course Number: 5E-37A (RC) (dL)
Location: dL
Rank: 1LT(P)- CPT

Clearance: Secret
Component: Reserve
Class Size: 48
Course Duration: 1 year

Prerequisites: Reserve Army first lieutenants (P), captains who are Captains Career Course, or equivalent graduates. Officers must
be assigned to, or on orders to a PSYOP officer position. The officer must meet DA Pam 600-3 requirements for the PSYOP Branch
(37A). Must possess a secret-security clearance (interim secret clearances are acceptable to attend the course). Must possess a baccalaureate degree, preferably in a social/political science or discipline related to MISO functions. Reserve Army officers successfully completing this course will be awarded Branch 37A. Students will enroll in both phases when signing up for this course. Any
variation from the above standards requires a waiver from the CG, SWCS. Phase I must be completed within six months from date
of enrollment. Students must bring a certificate of completion to verify completion of Phase I before starting Phase II.
Scope: This course focuses on skills and knowledge necessary to perform as a PSYOP officer including: Introduction to MISO;
MIS doctrine; organization and employment; MISO development process; marketing and advertising principles; social and behavioral science; adaptive leadership techniques; public diplomacy; whole-of-government, political/military analysis; and contemporary issues of MISO. This phase consists of four modules: Module A introduces the student to the current MISO capabilities
of Department of Defense and other government agencies and provides the skills and knowledge necessary to perform MISO
officer critical tasks. Module B trains the officer to conduct regional analyses using the PMESIIE-PT system of analysis. Module C
introduces the student to the characteristics and common components of culture, identifies the basic principles of human behavior,
determines factors leading to radicalization of cultures and provides an overview of terrorism. Module D provides the students the
required scientific knowledge to perform the functions of MISO by influencing hostile, friendly and neutral target audiences to
accept or comply with U.S. policy goals and objectives.
Course Description: The PSYOP Officer Qualification Course USAR (DL) is a 24-week distributive learning program of instruction designed to train and qualify selected reserve Army officers in the basic skills and competencies needed to perform the duties
of a MISO officer. This phase introduces the student to the current MISO capabilities of Department of Defense and other government agencies and provides the skills and knowledge necessary to perform MISO-officer critical tasks.
PSYOP > Reserve

PSYOP Reserve Officer Qualification Course Phase 2
Course Number: 5E-37A (RC)
Class Size: 48
Rank: 1LT(P)- CPT

Clearance: Secret
Component: Reserve
Prerequisites: Students must complete Phase I material within 12 months.

Scope: This phase of instruction trains the student in MISO planning and the application of the seven-phase MISO-development process. This phase consist of three modules: Module A introduces the seven-step MISO development process and provides the students with
an understanding of how MISO products and actions are conceived, developed, designed, produced, approved, distributed, disseminated
and evaluated. Module B provides the students with an understanding of how the MISO staff officer integrates, synchronizes and coordinates MISO plans and objectives with the supporting units plans and objectives using the military decision-making process. Module C
places the student in a field exercise in operational situations where they must demonstrate their ability to perform certain MISO tasks to
standard (validation of specific MISO officer critical tasks) in support of Phase I thru Phase V of a joint task force mission.
Course Description: The PSYOP Officer Qualification Course USAR PH II (Resident) is a four-week program of instruction
designed to train and qualify selected reserve Army officers in the basic skills and competencies needed to perform the duties of a
PSYOP officer; a skilled Soldier imbued with the warrior ethos; capable of planning, executing and transitioning MISO across the
full spectrum of operations in all environments; executing joint, interagency, multi-national or coalition operations; able to operate
in technologically superior as well as austere environments; responsive to asymmetrical challenges; adaptive and comfortable with
ambiguity; culturally aware, regionally focused and language capable.
PSYOP Specialist, Reserve, Initial Entry Training

Course Number: 243-37F10
Fort Bragg
Class Size: 60
Rank: PV1 - SPC

Clearance: Secret
Component: Reserve
Location:
Prerequisites: Army personnel (RC) must meet the physical-demands

rating and qualifications for initial award of the MOS. PSYOP specialists
must possess the following physical qualifications: Pass an Army physical IAW AR 40-501. Have a physical serial code of profile of 111221.
Color discrimination of red/green. PSYOP specialists must achieve the
minimum qualifying scores as outlined below. A minimum score of 105
in aptitude area ST in Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery tests
administered prior to Jan. 2, 2002. A minimum score of 102 in aptitude
area ST on ASVAB tests administered on and after Jan. 2, 2002. A minimum score of 85 on the Defense Language Aptitude Battery (DLAB).
MISO specialists must be eligible for a secret security clearance to be
awarded MOS 37F. Be a high school graduate or equivalent.
Scope: Students will learn to collect psychologically relevant information; conduct target-audience analysis; select symbols, media types and
psychological actions; analyze supported unit missions; derive MISO
missions; perform mounted and dismounted land navigation; operate communications and MISO-unique equipment; drivers training,
weapons training, map reading and patrolling; operate as a MIS team;
and learn DA-directed common-core subjects.
Course Description: Students will learn to collect MIS-relevant
information; conduct target-audience analysis; select themes, symbols,
media types and psychological actions; analyze supported unit missions; derive MISO missions; perform mounted and dismounted land
navigation; operate communications and MISO-related equipment;
drivers training, weapons training, map reading and patrolling; operate
as a MISO team; and learn DA-directed common core subjects.
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PSYOP
Other / Advanced
SupportSkills
Operations > MISOQC
PSYOP Officer (International Students)
Course Number: 5E-37A (X/OS)
Secret
Class Size: 10
Clearance:
Prerequisites: Must be a sister-service officer in the grade of 03 or 04 or an allied officer with a valid quota for attendance.
Scope: This is not a branch-producing course. This course will focus on MISO doctrine; organization and employment; the MISOdevelopment process; marketing and advertising principles; social and behavioral science; adaptive leadership techniques; public
diplomacy; interagency; MISO analysis; and contemporary issues in MISO. This course consists of the following modules: Module
1: 37A/37F Core Training; Module 2: Culmination Exercise.
Course Description: To train and educate selected sister-service officer and allied officers in MISO basic skills and competencies.
ARSOF MILITARY DECEPTION PLANNERS COURSE

Course Number: TBD
Class Size: 24
Rank: SFC-MSG, CPT-MAJ

Clearance: Top Secret
Component: Active Duty/USAR

Prerequisites: Enlisted personnel in the grades of E7-E9, possess a top-secret clearance verifiable through JPAS, graduate of the
Senior Leaders Course and the Joint Planners Course. Warrant Officers in the grades of CW3 to CW4, possess a top-secret clearance verifiable through JPAS, graduate of the Special Forces Warrant Officer Staff Course and the Joint Planners Course. Officers in
the grades of O4-O5, possess a top-secret clearance verifiable through JPAS, graduate of the Command General Staff College.
Scope: The SWCS ARSOF MILDEC Operations Course presents the core MILDEC tasks and knowledge to execute the deception
cycle as the military deception officer of a special-operations force staff/conventional force staff during the conduct of an irregularwarfare scenario in a problem-centered, active-learning environment.
Outcome: At the end of this training, students will be familiar with:
MILDEC legal and policy guidelines
Five phase deception cycle
Basic terms, principles and maxims
MILDEC historical case studies
MILDEC and SOF targeting Psychological Warfare
PSYOP in deception and denial
Precision influence targeting
Social network analysis/dark networks
Course Description: The SWCS Joint MILDEC Operations Course is designed to train and certify selected personnel in the planning, execution and termination of joint military deception in support of general purpose forces, traditional SOF and joint SOF
core activities. Instruction is a combination of lectures and practical exercises using classified materials up to the top-secret level.
MISO ISO Unconventional Warfare Course (In Development)

Course Number: TBD
Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 24
See ATTRS for course dates: Not yet in ATRRS. Expected Q1 FY14 (Pilot), TBD
Component: Active Duty

Prerequisites: Active Army staff sergeants through master sergeants who are graduates of the PSYOP Specialists Course and hold
the primary MOS of 37F or Active Army captains (P) and majors who are graduates of the PSYOP Qualification Course and have
been awarded branch 37A. Must possess a secret security clearance. Must be a graduate of the Unconventional Warfare Opera-
PSYOP > Advanced Skills

tional Design Course and a graduate of SERE Level C. Must have a minimum of 24 months operational experience. Must obtain
recommendation letter from their battalion chain of command articulating character, experience, suitability for the UW mission.
Must not have a permanent profile. Any variation from the above standards requires a waiver from the CG, SWCS.
Scope: Students will thoroughly understand the seven phases of UW and how to integrate the PSYOP core tasks into each phase,
overt/covert UW funding, familiarization with Title 10 and 50 operations (current and historical), intelligence oversight and legal
considerations, Special Forces and Civil Affairs integration into the UW mission and explanations of joint, interagency, international and multi-national efforts to the UW mission. This course consists of formal classroom instruction and hands-on practical exercises. The training follows the seven phases of the UW mission (preparation, initial contact, infiltration, organization,
buildup, employment and transition) described in FM 3-05.130 and interlaces it with the seven step PSYOP process outlined in FM
3-05.301. The course culminates with two field-training exercises one urban, one rural.
Course Description: The MISO ISO Unconventional Warfare Course (Level I) is designed to produce specially selected PSYOP practitioners proficient at integrating into all phases of the UW mission, capable of conducting overt and covert/clandestine PSYOP programs aimed at building, organizing and employing a resistance forces propaganda capability. Students will possess intimate knowledge of UW and MISO in support of UW through case studies to be able to work as the MISO UW subject-matter experts, capable of
training and advising MISO to resistance forces propaganda cadre and integrate into JIIM IW/UW efforts. Graduates from this course
will be able to deploy as a team member in support of a UW mission and execute MISO at the tactical level.
MISO Targeting and Analysis Course (In Development)

Course Number: TBD
Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 24
See ATTRS for course dates: Not yet in ATRRS. Expected 3rd or 4th Quarter of FY14 (Pilot), TBD
Prerequisites: Active Army/USAR Soldiers in the ranks of staff sergeant through master sergeant, captains and majors assigned to
special-operations units. Any variation from the above standards requires a waiver from the CG, SWCS. By exception, interagency
personnel involved in Human-Domain targeting analysis or developing non-lethal targeting may request enrollment.
Outcome: Creates a Soldier capable of recommending priorities for non-lethal targeting in the Human Domain in support of commanders end state.
Course Description: The MISO Targeting and Analysis Course is designed to create Soldiers who are proficient in advanced analytical methods and improve their ability to conduct non-lethal targeting within the Human Domain. Instruction is based upon the
Army Learning Model 2015 and incorporates case study material.
MISO Advanced Planners Course (In Development)

Course Number: TBD
Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 24
See ATTRS for course dates: Not yet in ATRRS. Expected Q3/4 FY14 (Pilot), TBD

Course Duration: 3 Weeks
Prerequisites: Active Army/USAR MISO Officers (O3(P) through O5) and MISO non-commissioned officers (E7-E9) who are
currently serving or enroute to a staff officer/NCO position at the division or theater special-operations command level and above.
Students must possess a current secret clearance. Any variation from the above standards requires a waiver from the CG, SWCS.
Scope: The MISO Advanced Planners Course will create a MISO planner capable of developing MISO plans/programs in support
of military objectives linked to national strategies utilizing detailed assessment models, synchronizing MISO efforts and evaluating
effectiveness during the conduct of an irregular-warfare scenario.
Outcome: Prepares a MISO Soldier to be able to plan, synchronize and evaluate MISO activities at the operational level and above
and serve as a critical enabler for USASOCs ARSOF 2022 vision.
Course Description: The MISO Advanced Planners Course is designed to train and certify select personnel in the planning, management and evaluation of MISO Plans and Programs in support of general purpose forces, traditional SOF and joint SOF operations. Instruction is based upon the Army Learning Model 2015and incorporates case study material.
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Special
Welcome
forces
tocourses
SWCS
Special Forces Preparatory Course (SFPC)

Course Number: 011-F82
Class Size: 120
Clearance:
Course Duration: 3 weeks 4 days
Scope: Designed to optimize 18X and REP-63 (National Guard) Soldiers physical and mental performance and preparation for
successful completion the SFAS course.
Course Description: The program utilizes a holistic approach to physical conditioning that includes nutrition, hydration, injury
prevention and rehabilitation and exercise program development. Additional area of emphasis include the progressive development of the skills necessary for land navigation and leadership in dynamic and complex environments.
Special Forces Assessment and Selection (SFAS)

Class Size: 350

Prerequisites: N/A
Scope: The SFAS course is designed to reliably predictor successful completion of the SFQC and for service in the 1st Special
Forces Regiment. SFAS utilizes an individual-focused assessment process that is designed to select candidates capable of meeting
the requirements of the SFQC (trainable) and suitable for service in the regiment.
Course Description: SFAS is a systematic procedure for evaluating candidates against job-related dimensions that are specific to
the Special Forces Regiment and the operational environments in which they serve. The job-related dimensions are the ARSOF
attributes derived from a collaborative effort that includes input from 12 SOF models, working groups and a SOF symposium.
The assessment process is both performance and behavior based. The objective performance-based assessment is conducted in
two distinct phases: individual inventories and individual application. The subjective behaviorally based assessment is conducted
in a team-application phase. The team-application phase is designed to produce observable and measurable behaviors that can be
related to the ARSOF attributes. The measurements are applied with weighted effects to the ARSOF attributes to develop a wholeman profile used to holistically asses and select Special Forces candidates.
Special Forces > SFQC

Special Forces Qualification Course (SFQC)
Course Duration: 62-63 weeks
Course Description: Special Forces Qualification Course focuses on core Special Forces tactical competencies in support of surgical
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strike and special warfare, Career Management Field 18 MOS classification, Survival Evasion, Resistance and Escape, language proficiency and regional cultural understanding. The qualification course consists of six sequential phases of training, which upon completion the Soldiers earns the right to join the Special Forces brotherhood, wear the Special Forces tab and don the Green Beret.
Course Orientation
and History
PHASE I: 6 Weeks
SF Culture
Introduction to Unconventional Warfare
SF Principle Tasks & Mission Command
Land Navigation
SF History
Method of Instruction
Wellness Screening and Assessment
Family Programs
ARSOF Core Attributes
UW Culex
(Robin Sage)
PHASE IV: 4 Weeks

Unconventional Warfare Practicum
Guerrilla Warfare
Support of a Resistance Movement
Air Operations
Deliberate UW Mission Analysis and
Planning
SF Infiltration and Exfiltration Techniques
Rapport Building
Negotiation and Mediation
Advanced Special Operations Level 1 (PE)
Small Unit Tactics

(SUT)
PHASE II: 13 Weeks

Small Unit Tactics
Advanced Marksmanship
Special Forces Common Skills
Counterinsurgency FTX
Urban Operations
Maneuver Live Fire
Sensitive Site Exploitation (SSE)
Military Decision Making Process (MDMP)
Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape
(SERE)
Language and Culture
PHASE V: 24 Weeks
Cat I & II - 24 weeks:
French, Indonesian-Bahasa and Spanish
Cat III & IV - 24 weeks:
Arabic, Chinese-Mandarin, Czech, Dari,
Hungarian, Korean, Pashto, Persian-Farsi,
Polish, Russian, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish and
Urdu
Use of Interpreters
MOS Training
PHASE III: 14-16 Weeks

MOS - 14 weeks:
18 A, Detachment Officer Course
18 B, Weapons Sergeant
18 C, Engineer Sergeant
18 D, Medical Sergeant
MOS - 16 weeks:
18 E, Communications Sergeant
Graduation
PHASE VI: 1 Week

Regimental Indoctrination
Operational Group Assignment
Introduction to Group Command Team
Award of the Special Forces Tab and Green
Beret
Credentialed as an SF Officer or NCO
SFQC Phase I - Course Orientation and History

Class Size: 180
90 Weeks for 18D students
Course Description: Special Forces Orientation Course is a six -week introduction to Special Forces covering history, doctrine, organization, command and control, core tasks and mission, Special Forces attributes, Special Forces mission planning, PMESII-PT
system of regional analysis, land navigation, introduction to small-unit tactics, duties and responsibilities of each 18 series MOS,
physical fitness and nutrition, airborne refresher and participation in Robin Sage exercise as a member of a guerrilla force.
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SFQC Phase II, Small Unit Tactics (SUT)
Class Size: 180
Clearance: Secret
Prerequisites: Successful completion of the Special Forces Orientation Course.

Course Description: Phase II of the Special Forces Qualification Course includes an in-depth study of and practicum related to
small-unit tactics and operations; and provides the tactical combat skills required to successfully operate on an SFOD-A. Students
will master the following tactical skills: basic and advanced combat rifle marksmanship, small-unit tactics, Special Forces common
tasks, urban-warfare operations, Special Forces mission analysis, Advanced Special Operations Level 1 techniques, sensitive-site
exploitation procedures, military decision making process, Tactical Operations Orders and SERE Level-C training.
SFQC Phase III, MOS Training

Course Number: 2E-18A, 011-18B30-C45, 011-18C30-C45, 011-18E30-C45, 011-18D30-C45
Clearance: Secret
Class Size: ~35 each MOS
Course Duration: 14 Weeks (18B, 18C, 18D), 16 WEEKS (18E)
Prerequisites: Successful completion of the Special Forces Orientation Course, Small Unit Tactics and SERE training.
Course Description: Each Soldier attending SFQC is assigned to one of five Special Forces Career Management Field 18, Military
Occupational Specialties for enlisted Soldiers or Area of Concentration (Branch 18) for officers: Special Forces Detachment Commander (18A); Special Forces Weapons Sergeant (18B); Special Forces Engineer Sergeant (18C); Special Forces Medical Sergeant
(18D); or Special Forces Communications Sergeant (18E):
18A - Special Forces Detachment Officer (2E-18A)

Course Number: 2E-F253/011-F95 Course Duration: 14 weeks
Purpose: To train selected officers in the critical branch (18A) tasks and competencies required to perform the duties
of a detachment commander of a Special Forces ODA.
Course Description: Focuses on the full operational spectrum of problem analysis and resolution design associated with
SF core missions across the elements of national power spectrum. Duties and functional-area familiarization of the 18 series
MOSs: communications, engineer, medical, weapons, intelligence; the military decision making process; special-operations
mission planning; adaptive thinking and leadership; special reconnaissance; direct action; unconventional warfare; foreign
internal defense; counterinsurgency operations; military operations in urban terrain; interagency operations; warrior skills;
advanced special operations skills; OPFUND management; elements of national power considerations; culture; in-depth
core mission analysis; information operations, planning and conduct of ODA training; and three field-training exercises.
18B - Weapons Sergeant (011-18B30-C45)

Purpose: To train selected Soldiers in the critical MOS and skill level tasks and competencies required to perform
the duties of a Special Forces weapons sergeant on an SF ODA.
Course Description: Special Forces weapons sergeants receive an extensive knowledge of U.S., allied and foreign
weapons systems found throughout the world. They gain extensive knowledge of various small-arms rifles and
pistols, submachine guns, crew-served heavy and light machine guns, rocket propelled grenades shoulder fired and
automatic grenade launchers, forward-observer procedures, call for fire and emergency close-air support, direct
fire and indirect-fire weapons (mortars), air defense systems, sniper systems and individual and crew-served antitank missiles. Soldiers receive instruction on conventional and unconventional tactics, techniques and procedures;
mounted and dismounted operations, base defense, weapons emplacement and maintenance, offense and defense
operations, advanced combat marksmanship, training management and range operations and the ability to recruit,
organize, train and advise or command indigenous combat forces up to company size.

18C - Engineer Sergeant (011-18C30-C45)
Purpose: To train selected Soldiers in the critical MOS and skill level (18C30) tasks and competencies required to
perform the duties of a Special Forces engineer sergeant on a SF ODA.
Course Description: Special Forces engineer sergeants are experts in employing offensive/ defensive combat engineer capabilities to include demolitions, explosives and improvised munitions, construction, homemade explosives,
target reconnaissance and target analysis. Soldiers learn to read blueprints as well as design and construction of
theater-of-operations building complete with plumbing, electrical and HVAC systems; field fortifications and Special
Forces Tactical Facility construction, advanced demolition techniques utilizing U.S., allied, foreign and civilian demolition components, firing systems, calculation and placement of charges, expedient charges and range operations.
They can recruit, organize, train and advise or command indigenous combat forces up to company size.
18D - Medical Sergeant (011-18D30-C45)

Additional Phase III 18D Prerequisites: Successful completion of the Special Operations Combat Medic (SOCM)
course no more than two years prior to entering the 18D Medical Sergeant course.
Purpose: To train selected Soldiers in the critical MOS and skill level (18D30) tasks and competencies required to
perform the duties of a Special Forces Medical Sergeant on an SF ODA.
Course Description: Medical sergeants specialize in trauma management, infectious diseases, cardiac life support
and surgical procedures, with a basic understanding of veterinary and dental medicine. Both general healthcare and
emergency healthcare are stressed in training.
Medical sergeants provide emergency, routine and long-term medical care for detachment members and associated allied members and host-nation personnel; establish field medical facilities to support unconventional-warfare
operations; provide veterinary care; prepare the medical portion of area studies, brief backs and operation plans and
orders. Soldiers selected for MOS 18D attend 250 days of advanced medical training including Special Operation
Combat Medic course which includes two months trauma rotation in hospital emergency rooms and nationally accredited emergency medical technician paramedic program. They can recruit, organize, train and advise or command
indigenous combat forces up to company size.
18E - Communications Sergeant (011-18E30-C45)

Purpose: To train selected Soldiers in the critical MOS and skill level (18E30) tasks and competencies required to
perform the duties of an SF communications sergeant on an SFOD-A.
Course Description: The Special Forces communications sergeants learn U.S., allied and selected foreign-communication systems found throughout the world and capable of employing, accessing and familiar with SF, joint and
interagency communications. Communications sergeants have a thorough understanding of radio theory, basic
electricity, radio telephone procedures, signal-operating instructions, communication security, power applications
and information operations/electronic warfare and advanced communications procedures; satellite theory, the use
of satellite radios such as the AN/PSC-5C/D AN/PRC-117G and BGAN antenna and the radios modes of operation,
Demand Assigned Multiple Access (DAMA, High Performance Wave-Form (HPW) and point-to-point operations;
operate and maintain a satellite communications links, encryption and decryption, computer technology, computer
systems networking, trouble shooting, assembly and applications (computer applications A+ training and NET+
training); network computers in a LAN and WAN configuration and set up servers and routers; install, operate and
maintain SDN-L and SOMPE-G operate and maintain FM, AM, HF, VHF and UHF radio systems, understand
communication and antenna theory radio-wave propagation and operate communications in voice to data systems
Communications sergeants prepare the communications portion of area studies, brief backs and operation plans and
orders; communications planning such as transmission site selection, the duties and responsibilities of the SF communications sergeant, signal support in the Special Forces group, MDMP, mission planning and preparing a signal
annex. Operation and troubleshooting of the AN/PRC-137 Special Mission Radio set (SMRS) and AN/PRC-150 They
can recruit, organize, train and advise or command indigenous combat forces up to company size.
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SFQC Phase IV, Unconventional Warfare Culex
Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 144

Prerequisites: Successful completion of the Special Forces Orientation Course, Small Unit Tactics and Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape training and military occupational specialty training.
Purpose: To train, evaluate and qualify students in Special Forces skills acquired in individual and MOS training necessary to
perform their duties on a Special Forces Detachment Alpha including mission planning, advanced special operations, interagency
operations, unconventional-warfare phases, organization and planning and UW culmination practicum.
Course Description: Soldiers must put all of the skills they have learned throughout the SFQC to successfully navigate the
unconventional-warfare environment during the Robin Sage CULEX. The Robin Sage CULEX has been the litmus test for Soldiers striving to earn the coveted Green Beret for more than 40 years. Students are organized into Special Forces Operational
Detachment-Alpha (SFODA). The SFODA is trained and mentored throughout the exercise from mission receipt through planning and infiltration by combat-proven Special Forces operators. Students are taught the necessary skills to survive and succeed in
a UW environment consisting of a notional country characterized by political instability and armed conflict that forces Soldiers to
exercise both individual and collective problem solving. A key to the success of the Robin Sage training is its real-world feel that
is established by the use of guerrilla forces. The SFODA must assess the combat effectiveness of the G-forces and then train them
in basic individual tasks from each of the MOSs as well as collective tasks in basic small-unit tactics, while remaining responsive
to asymmetrical challenges. During this training, the SFODA must demonstrate its knowledge of UW doctrine and operational
techniques. Participating in this rigorous and realistic training exercise provides the future Special Forces Soldier with the skills
and confidence needed to successfully deploy with an SFODA.
SFQC Phase V, Language and Culture

Clearance: Secret Course Duration: 24 weeks
Class Size: varies
Iterations: per year
Prerequisites: Successful completion of the first four phases of the SFQC

Course Description: Phase 5 of the SFQC focuses on language and culture. During Phase 5, Soldiers receive basic special-operations language training in the language assigned to them at the completion of Special Forces Assessment and Selection. Languages
are broken into two categories based on their degree of difficulty.
Category I/II: French, Indoensian-Bahasa and Spanish
Category III/V: Arabic, Chinese-Mandarin, Czech, Dari, Hungarian, Korean, Pashto, Persian-Farsi, Polish, Russian., Tagalog, Thai,
Turkish and Urdu.
Students receive instruction in three basic language skills: speaking, participatory listening and reading (limited). The following areas of emphasis are covered during the training: overview of physical and social systems, economics, politics and security,
infrastructure and technology information, culture and regional studies. Language instruction focuses on functional application
geared toward mission-related tasks, enhanced rapport building techniques, cultural mitigation strategies, interpreting and control
of interpreter methods. Also during Phase 2, a progressive PT program is started in order to prepare for Phase 3.
To successfully complete Phase 5, Soldiers must achieve a minimum of 1/1 Listening and Speaking as measured by the two-skill
Oral Proficiency Interview.
SFQC Phase VI, Graduation

Phase 6 is the final phase and is comprised of one week of outprocessing, the Regimental First Formation where students don their
green berets for the first time and the graduation ceremony.

Post-SFQC / Advanced Skills
Detachment Leaders Course
Class Size: 40
Clearance: Interim Top Secret


Prerequisites: The course is open to Special Forces-18A officers, 180As and CMF18 NCOs selected for the position of operational
detachment operations sergeant positions.
Scope: The Detachment Leaders Course provides a professional forum for subject-matter experts and senior ARSOF / JIIM
leaders to address ARSOF-specific topics and develop a common understanding of the contemporary operational environment.
Course Description: The post-SFQC Detachment Commander Course conducted by A/1/1 SWTG(A) provides advanced resident
training to expand the newly qualified Special Forces captains base of knowledge as they transition from 1st Special Warfare Training Group(A) to the operational groups. The course focuses on ARSOF senior leader insights and guidance; advanced instruction
in ASO; interagency partnerships and education; the U.S. Army Special Operations Command and the U.S. Army Special Forces
Command operational, logistical and intelligence functions; operational lessons learned and updates from deployed ARSOF units.
The course establishes the foundation for a Special Forces officers continuing education process.
Special Forces Combat Diver Qualification Course (CDQC)

Course Number: 2E-SI/ASI4W/011-ASIW7
Class Size: 45
Clearance: Secret
Prerequisites: Must be a male United States

Special Operations Command Soldier assigned
or on orders to an authorized combat-diver
position. Must successfully complete the following IAW AR 611-75 Management of Army
Divers, paragraph 2-18: meet the medical
fitness standards IAW AR 40-501 Standards
of Medical Fitness, paragraph 5-9, with the
examination completed within 24 months prior
to the start date of the scheduled SFCDQC
and ensure that DD Forms 2808 (Report of
Medical Examination) and 2807-1 (Report of
Medical History) are sent to the CG, USAJFKSWCS ATTN: AOJK-OP (G3) Fort Bragg, NC
28310-9610. Must pass a physical training test
with a minimum of: 52 pushups; 62 sit ups; 7
forward grip pull ups; a two-mile run time of no greater than 14 minutes 54 seconds; a 500-meter open-water swim in BDUs using
a side or breast stroke; must pass a five-mile run within 40 minutes. Student must present a memorandum signed by the first O-5
in his chain of command which states that he passed all requirements. This memorandum must be dated within six months of the
start date of the scheduled SFCDQC. Successful completion of the PT requirements will be verified in writing by the individuals
unit commander. Must pass an oxygen intolerance/hyperbaric chamber pressure equalization test (given during the first day of the
course) in accordance with the requirements contained in AR 40-501, Chapter 5, paragraph 5-9w. Any variation from the above
standards require a waiver from the Commanding General, USAJFKSWCS.
Course Description: Combat Diver closed-circuit diving operations. Combat swimmer techniques, dangerous marine life, specialized physical conditioning for combat divers, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, buddy rescue and life-saving techniques, the dive reporting system; waterborne infiltration operations, waterproofing and bundle rigging; tides and currents, pool and tower training;
emergency assent procedures and decompression, open-circuit diving; closed-circuit diving; altitude diving, closed circuit under
water navigation, underwater search operations, dive equipment and maintenance, diving physics; physiology and injuries; U.S.
Navy diving tables; small-boat operations; surface infiltration; submarine operations, helocast operations, kayak operations, Special
Operations Combat Expendable Platform airborne infiltration and a course culmination situational-training exercise.
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Special Forces Combat Diving Supervisor Course (CDSC)
Course Number: 2E-F65/011-ASIS6
Class Size: 21
Clearance: Secret
Prerequisites: Must be a graduate of the Special Forces Combat Diver Qualification Course or Basic Underwater Demolition/
SEAL Course in the grade of E-6 or above. Must possess a current Special Forces diving physical examination in accordance with the
requirements of AR 40-501 Standards of Medical Fitness, Chapter 5, paragraph 5-9 completed within 24 months of course completion date. Must report with medical records and originals of the physical examination documents on the day of course in-processing.
Must pass a physical-fitness test, conducted in accordance with the provisions of FM 21-20 Physical Fitness Training consisting of a
minimum of: 52 push-ups, 62 sit-ups within a two-minute period and completion of a two-mile run within 14 minutes, 54 seconds
or less (all age groups) (AR 611-75 Management of Army Divers, Chapter 2, paragraph 2-19b). Must report with a certification of the
successful completion of the physical-fitness test signed by a commander in the grade of lieutenant colonel or higher. Any variation
from the above standards requires a waiver from the CG, SWCS NLT 45 days prior to the class start date.
Course Description: Plan and supervise Combat Diving Operations (day and night); diving operations planning and briefing,
tides and currents; nautical charts and navigation, submarine operations; diving operations; pre-dive and Post dive inspection,
Diving Equipment; Dive logs and reporting system, Medical Aspects of Diving; diving physiology, diving injuries, hyperbaric
chamber operations; high-pressure air and oxygen use and safety, diving physics; open- and closed-circuit diving, U.S. Navy dive
tables, altitude diving and a course culmination situational training exercise.
Special Forces Combat Diving Medical Technician (CDMT)

Course Number: 011-ASIQ5
Class Size: 30
Clearance: Secret
Prerequisites: Students must be male, active- or reserve-component Department of Defense enlisted personnel. They must be
qualified SF or Ranger medics who have graduated from the Special Operations Combat Medic Course, U.S. Navy SEAL corpsmen,
U.S. Air Force Para-Rescue medics or other DoD medical personnel assigned to or on orders for duty as SOF medics. Candidates
not on dive status must pass an initial SFCDQC physical examination completed not more than 24 months before the start date of
the scheduled SFDMTC, IAW AR 40-501, Paragraphs 5-9 and 8-14a(7). Candidates on dive status must have a current SFCDQC
physical examination completed not more than 36 months before the start date of the SFDMTC, IAW AR 40-501, Paragraphs 5-9
and 8-14a(7). All candidates must report to inprocessing with their medical records and original DD Forms 2808 and 2807-1. They
must have passed an Army Physical Fitness Test within six months of the course completion date and administered IAW the provisions of TC 3-22.20 and they must have scored at least 70 percent in each event according to the 17-21 year-old standards, regardless of their age [AR 611-75, Paragraph 2-18d(2)]. They must pass a swim test consisting of swimming 300 meters using any stroke
[AR 611-75, Paragraph 2-18D(3)]. Students must report for inprocessing with a certification that they have passed the AFPT and
swim tests signed by their unit commander. Students must pass an oxygen intolerance/hyperbaric chamber pressure equalization
test on the first day of the course, in accordance with the requirements of AR 40-501, Chapter 5 and Paragraph 5-9W.
Course Description: Medical planning for diving operations; diving physiology: altitude diving; diving physics; diving physiology,
neurological assessment, dangerous marine life; U.S. Navy Dive Treatment Tables, Stress in diving, differential diagnosis of diving
accidents and injuries, decompression theory and sickness, hyperbaric chamber operations; hyperbaric oxygen theory, air purity
standards and a Diving Medical Technician Course culmination situational training exercise - medical actions.
Military Free-Fall Parachutist Course (MFFPC)

Course Number: 2E-SI4X/ASI4X/011-ASIW8
Class Size: 54
Clearance: Secret
Prerequisites: Active component or reserve component SOF commissioned officers (LT-CPT), warrant officers (WO1-CW3) or enlisted
personnel (PFC-MSG). Other commissioned officers, warrant officers or enlisted personnel of the active or reserve components, selected
DoD civilian personnel or allied personnel who have been nominated for attendance through their chain of command. Applicants must
be qualified military static-line parachutists and not weigh more than 240 pounds; must have a current Class III flight physical examination IAW AR 40-501 dated within two years of course completion date; must report with complete medical records including a current
Physiological Training Record, High-Altitude Parachutist Initial (HAP INT) (AF Form 1274; AF Form 702, Navy Form 1550/28-NP-6
card; or USAAMC AA Form 484). Any variation from the above standards requires a waiver from the CG, USAJFKSWCS.

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Course Description: Military Free-Fall (MFF) ground training: packing of the Ram Air Parachute System (RAPPS) main parachute, parachute donning procedures, emergency procedures and aircraft procedures/jump commands; body stabilization in the
vertical wind tunnel. MFF operations: aircraft procedures, emergency procedures, body stabilization and how to exit an aircraft
from the door or ramp using dive or poised exit positions. Rigging of weapons, combat equipment, night vision goggles and the
use of portable oxygen equipment. MFF parachute operations consist of MFF parachute jumps from altitudes of 9,500 to 25,000
feet with and without weapons, combat equipment, NVGs and supplemental oxygen system in day and night conditions.
Military Free Fall Jumpmaster Course (MFFJM)

Class Size: 30
Clearance: Secret
Prerequisites: Active- or reserve-component commissioned officers, warrant officers, noncommissioned officers and enlisted personnel of the United States military services, selected students of foreign allied countries and DoD personnel who are assigned to, or will
be assigned to, a military free-fall position. Must have completed a SOCOM-recognized static-line jumpmaster course and a SOCOMrecognized Military Free Fall Parachutist course. Must have a current Class III flight examination IAW AR 40-501 dated within
five years of course completion date if the Soldier is presently on military free-fall status/orders. Must have a current Physiological
Training Record, High-Altitude Parachutist Initial. (AF Form 1274; AF Form 702; Navy Form 1550/28-NP-6 card; or USAAMC AA
Form 484). Personnel cannot exceed 240 pounds. Must have served as a military free-fall parachutist for a minimum of one year and
completed a minimum of 50 military free-fall jumps. Must be current Military Free-Fall Parachutist Level III IAW USASOC 350-2, 27
September 01. Any variation from the above standards requires a waiver from the Commanding General, SWCS.
Course Description: MFFJM training focuses on Jumpmaster Personnel Inspection, emergency procedures, oxygen equipment,
wind-drift calculations, jump commands, aircraft procedures, techniques of spotting, ram-air personnel parachute packing and
rigging, advanced high-altitude, high-opening infiltration skills, computer-guided and compass-driven navigation, night-vision
goggles rigging and emergency procedures, non-standard combat equipment and weapon rigging, grouping and canopy flight
into unmarked/blacked-out drop zones and rigging, loading and deployment of GPS-guided bundles. Each student will plan and
execute several night, 02, HAHO operations at altitudes up to 25,000 feet MSL in complete blackout conditions utilizing NVGs and
navigate onto unfamiliar/unmarked drop zones.
Advanced Military Free Fall Course (CAMFF)

Class Size: 7
Clearance: Secret
Prerequisites: Active component commissioned officers, noncommissioned officers and warrant officers who are current MFF
jumpers and qualified military free-fall jumpmasters, upon successful completion of MFFIC, all Army NCOs will be available for
future assignment as MFF instructors at B Co, 2d Bn, 1st SWTG (A), Yuma Proving Grounds, Ariz. Must possess a current Class
III physical examination IAW AR 40-502 dated within five years of course completions date. Must also possess a current Physiological Training Card (AF Form 1274; AF Form 702; Navy Form 1550/28-NP-6 card; or USAAMC (AA) Form 484). Must meet height
and weight standards as outlined in AR 600-9, or service equivalent. Personnel cannot exceed 240 pounds. Must have served as a
military free-fall jumpmaster for a minimum of one year and completed a minimum of 100 free-fall parachute jumps. Must have
nine months remaining in service upon graduation. Personnel reporting to training who do not meet all of the prerequisites will
not be admitted to the course. Any variation from the above standards requires a request for exceptions in writing from the Soldiers battalion commander through the group commander, to the Commanding General, USAJFKSWCS.
Course Description:
Military Free-Fall ground training: students learn advance free fall techniques in the vertical wind tunnel, by conducting drills that
replicate instructor to student free-fall operations.
Military Free-Fall Air Operations (Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz.): Students revalidate their competency with the MC-4 parachute system before transitioning to the Instructor-Certified Ram-Air Parachute System(ICRAPS); (Non-Standard Military
Free-Fall parachute system). Transition training consists of packing the main parachute, donning the parachute system,
conducting jumpmaster personnel inspections and performing emergency procedures using the parachute system. Additionally, students receive refresher training on aircraft procedures, drop-zone operations and rigging external equipment before
the start of airborne operations.
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Advanced Skills
Special Forces Intelligence Sergeant Course (SFISC)
Course Number: 011-18F40
Class Size: 50
Clearance: TS-SCI
Prerequisites: Active- or National Guard- component U.S. Army Special Forces enlisted personnel (CMF 18) in the rank of staff
sergeant through sergeant first class, with a minimum of two years operational detachment-alpha or operational detachment-bravo
time, who have a validated mission need or have been nominated by their chain of command are allowed to attend to the Special
Forces Intelligence Sergeants Course. Any variation from the above standards requires a waiver from the Commanding General,
SWCS. Must be a U.S. citizen. All students must pass the Army Physical Fitness Test during the course IAW FM 21-22 and the
SFISC Student Evaluation and Grading Criteria. Students will be graded IAW their age group and must meet or exceed 70 percent
in each event. Any student on profile is required to bring a copy of their profile (temporary or permanent). All students must meet
height and weight IAW AR600-9 Army Weight Control Program. All students attending this course must have a finalized topsecret clearance and be read-on the following caveats: SI/TK/G/H and have a PKI emailed to their SOCRATES account on JWICS.
Course Description:
Fort Bragg Module: Conventional and unconventional intelligence collection and processing; irregular warfare analytics; critical
thinking structured analysis, information operations; force protection, threat vulnerability assessment, evasion and recovery planning; analytical skills training/emerging analytic techniques; intelligence cycle; intelligence preparation of the environment; intelligence architecture; photography; digital intelligence systems, biometrics, forensics, digital-media exploitation; joint, conventional
and Special Forces targeting, targeting exercise (individual/network).
National Capital Region Module (Wash, D.C.): Interagency operations, Students will develop an understanding the strategic intelligence operations of national agencies/SOF integration. Students will conduct analyst exchanges with national intelligence agencies
in preparation of a real-world intelligence packet briefed to a VIP.
Advanced Special Operations Techniques Course (ASOTC)

Class Size: 24
Clearance: Secret
Prerequisites: Must be a graduate of one of the following courses IAW USSOCOM Directive 525.5 Advanced Special Operations.
Must possess a secret security clearance with the ability to obtain a top-secret clearance with sensitive compartmented information access and have U.S. citizenship. Must be an E6-E8, W1-W3 or O2-O4. Must have a minimum of two years of SOF experience
at the tactical level. Upon enrollment must have a remaining service obligation of two years (non-waiverable). Upon graduation
(non-waiverable) will incur an additional two-year service obligation and must serve a four-year utilization tour in a SOF billet
that requires ASOT Level 3 qualification validated by USSOCOM J3X.
Course Description: Special operations; mission planning; advanced special operations; interagency operations; unconventionalwarfare practical exercise; culmination exercise and graduation.
Advanced Special Operations Managers Course (ASOMC)

Course Number: 2E-F 272/011-F111
Class Size: 16
Clearance: TS-SCI
Prerequisites: Students must be graduates of course 2E-F141/011-F27 the Advanced Special Operations Techniques Course (Level
3). (c) Has a minimum of three years operational experience as a Level 3 operative. (d) Has a pay grade of E7-E9, W2-W5, 04-05
or GS12-GS15. (e) Possess a top-secret security clearance with sensitive compartmented information access. Those individuals
without a verified clearance will not be admitted to the course. (f) Any variation from the above prerequisites requires a waiver
approved by the Commander, SWCS.
Course Description: Classified.

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Operator Technical Surveillance Course (OTSC)
Course Number: 2E-F259/011-F99A
Class Size: 24
Clearance: Secret
Prerequisites: Must be in the grade of E6-E7, W1-W3 and O3. Must have at a minimum one year SOF experience at the tactical
level. Must possess at a minimum a current secret-security clearance. Individuals without a verified clearance will not be admitted
to the course. Individual must be assigned to USASOC, JSOC or MARSOC.
Course Description: The Operator Technical Surveillance Course is designed to qualify selected SOF personnel in the concepts,
responsibilities, functions and procedures associated with technical-support operations for SOF missions across the spectrum of
operations. The OTSC graduate will possess an intermediate-level skill set with knowledge required to effectively conduct technical-support operations that will provide a force multiplier for SOF commanders. The course instructs SOF operators in the use
and exploitation of tactical assets for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; and target development using advanced digital
photography and video equipment.
Advanced Technical Surveillance Course (ATSC)

Course Number: 2E-F259/011-F99B
Class Size: 24
Clearance: Secret
Prerequisites: Must be in the grade of E6-E7, W1-W3 and O3. Must have at a minimum one year SOF experience at the tactical
level. Must possess at a minimum a current secret-security clearance. Individuals without a verified clearance will not be admitted
to the course. Individual must be assigned to USASOC, JSOC or MARSOC. Must be a graduate of the OTSC.
Course Description: The Advance Technical Surveillance Course is designed to qualify selected SOF personnel in the concepts,
responsibilities, functions and procedures associated with technical-support operations for SOF missions across the spectrum of
operations. The ATSC graduate will possess an advanced-level skill set with knowledge required to effectively conduct technicalsupport operations that will provide a force multiplier for SOF commanders. The course instructs SOF operators in the use and
exploitation of tactical assets for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. Students are also trained in target development
using advanced digital photography and video equipment.
Special Operations Analytics and Intelligence Course (build phase) (SOAIC) NEW!
Clearance: TS-SCI
Class Size: 20
Iterations: 5
PDSI: Pending
Prerequisites: None
Course Description: Train and educate select Green Berets, SOF enablers and interagency personnel to access, analyze and fuse
intelligence data up to the top-secret/sensitive compartmented information level to provide specialized intelligence support to the
full range of SOF missions. This course will run in the National Capitol Region.
Special Forces Network Development Course (NDC)

Class Size: 20
Clearance: TS-SCI
Prerequisites: (a) Must be an active- or reserve-component Special Forces qualified officer (18A) O3-O5, warrant officer (180A)
W3-W5, or senior enlisted (18 series) E7-E9. (b) Must have a minimum two years SOF experience at the tactical level. (c) Must
possess a top-secret security clearance with sensitive compartmented information access. The 1st SWTG (A) S2 will verify all clearances. Those individuals without a verified clearance will not be admitted to the course. (d) Must be Achilles Dagger qualified.(e)
Any variation from the above standards requires a waiver from the CG, SWCS.
Course Description: Train and educate SOF personnel to design, develop, assess, vet, protect and expand complex indigenous
networks. The course prepares SOF personnel for analyzing regional cultural and social environments; assessing individuals for
participation in activities in support of Phase I and II U.S.-sponsored resistance objectives; vetting, protecting and expanding both
resilient and enduring networks through traditional and modern methodologies.
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Unconventional Warfare Operational Design Course (UWODC)
Clearance: TS-SCI
Class Size: 20
Iterations: 6

Prerequisites: (a) This course is open to all personnel who have been selected by their chain of command for attendance. (b) Ideally students should have a minimum of two years SOF experience and be a qualified officer in the grade of O3-O5, warrant officer
W2-W5 or senior enlisted E7-E9. (c) Students must possess a minimum current secret-security clearance. The 1st SWTG (A) S-2
will verify all clearances. Those individuals without a verified clearance will not be admitted to the course. (d) Any variation of the
above standards requires a waiver from CG, SWCS.
Course Description: Train and educate SOF and interagency personnel in the art of comprehensive UW planning through design.
The course prepares SOF and interagency personnel for analyzing, assessing and developing a potential regional resistance and
surrogate element in support of PE/UW activities as an operational or contingency alternative for GCCs, U.S. ambassadors and
strategic decision makers; able to understand, implement and articulate the unique requirements at the operational and strategic
level to plan, develop and enable resistance/insurgent element; participates in operational and strategic campaign design and planning as an SME to guide and facilitate, theater-level PE/UW plans.
SOF Digital Targeting Training (STTE) (Build Phase) New!

Course Number: TBD
Clearance: TS-SCI
Annual Attendance: 225
Iterations: Modular
Course Duration: 1-5 weeks

Prerequisites: All students attending this course must have a finalized top-secret security clearance with SCI access
Course Description: Qualify SOT-As, select joint SOF and other selected personnel to conduct advanced digital-targeting operations in support of the full range of special operations through the employment of wireless and digital technology.
SOF Site Exploitation, Technical Exploitation Course (SOFSE TEC)

Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 16

Prerequisites: Active- and reserve-component enlisted personnel in the grade of E1 though E8, warrant officer WO1 through
WO3, officers O1 through O3 who are assigned to a SOF unit and government civilians who have a valid mission need and who
have been nominated by their chain of command for attendance. The target audience for the TEC is composed of SOF operators,
interagency partners, personnel in military intelligence, interrogators and Soldiers assigned to chemical or explosive-ordnance
disposal units detailed to assist in SOFSE.
Course Description: Instruction on advanced battlefield forensics; on-site presumptive identification of trace and residue; detection, capture and transfer of latent prints without dusting; conducting imaging, storing and exploiting large volumes of digital
media; employment of ballistic imaging devices; employment of credibility assessment tools; conducting advanced document digitization and gist; and conducting advanced cell-phone exploitation. Enables Soldiers to conduct specialized SOFSE activities that
are beyond the capabilities of the SOFSE advanced operator. TEC students will learn to operate within a SOFSE facility designed
to further exploit sensitive-site materials and detainees who have been removed from the objective; perform basic and advanced
operator tasks to enable them to assist SOFSE advanced operators on-target. Provides training in advanced battlefield forensics;
on-site presumptive identification of trace and residue; detection, capture and transfer of latent prints with or without dusting; imaging, storing and exploitation of large volumes of digital media; employment of ballistic imaging devices; and advanced document
digitization. Graduates receive PDSI D5H.

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SOF Sensitive Site Exploitation Operator Advanced Course (SOFSE OAC)
Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 24

have been nominated by their chain of command for attendance.
Course Description: Special Operations Forces Site Exploitation team organization and responsibilities, planning, interagency
collaboration, biometrics, forensics and documents and media exploitation, improvised explosive devices exploitation, tactical
questioning and detainee-handling procedures.
Exploitation Analysis Center - Organic (EAC-O)

Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 6

have been nominated by their chain of command for attendance.
Course Description: EAC-O technician roles/responsibilities; site exploitation materials collection and submissions techniques;
digital photography; tool markings; impressions; firearms comparison; post-blast investigation; and analyzing drugs, explosives
and chemicals using the gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer technology.
Special Forces Physical Surveillance Course (SFPSC) (Build Phase) New!

Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 22

Prerequisites: Must be in the grade of E6-E7, W1-W3 or O3. Individual must have at a minimum one-year SOF experience at the
tactical level. Individual must possess at a minimum a current secret-security clearance. Individual must be assigned to USASOC,
JSOC or MARSOC with an operational requirement for this capability as seen by their command without a verified clearance will
not be admitted to the course.
Scope: Train and select SF, joint SOF and other selected personnel to conduct multi-modal non-technical personal- and targetsurveillance operations in support of the full range of special operations.
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Special Forces Sniper Course (SFSC)
Course Number: 2E-F67/011-ASIW3
Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 40

Prerequisites: Army active component or reserve component Special
Forces or Ranger qualified commissioned officers, lieutenant through
captain; warrant officers 180A and enlisted personnel, E4-E8, assigned
to or on orders to a Special Forces detachment or Ranger company; and
selected Department of Defense personnel. Must have in their possession at class inprocessing: a memorandum from their security manager
verifying their secret-security clearance dated not earlier than 30 days
prior to the start date; and a periodic health assessment and psychological evaluation that were administered within 12 months of the class start
date. Must be on jump status with current hazardous duty orders. Must
pass an entrance examination. The examination will be a diagnostic
shoot consisting of shooting five groupings. Each grouping will consist
of shooting five rounds at 25 meters from the prone supported position
with the current service rifle using iron sites. Three of the five groups
must have all five rounds in an area equal to or less than one and a
quarter inch in diameter to pass the shooting evaluation. Must not possess a medical profile that would prohibit participation in training and
must not be taking any medications that may affect reflexes or judgment.
Vision must be correctable to 20/20 in each eye. Any variation from the
above standards requires a waiver from the CG, USAJFKSWCS.
Course Description: : Marksmanship, rural field craft, technical-surveillance equipment, alternate sniper weapon systems and practical application. Trains selected special-operations forces personnel in Level 1 special-operations sniper skills and operational procedures that are necessary for them to engage selected targets with precision fire from concealed positions at ranges and under conditions that are not possible for the conventionally trained sniper in support of all SOF missions across the operational continuum.
Special Forces Advanced Reconnaissance Target Analysis Exploitation Techniques Course (SFARTAETC)
Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 52

Prerequisites: Active component SF enlisted personnel (CMF 18) in the rank of sergeant to master sergeant (no foreign).
Course Description: Provides specialized and comprehensive instruction and training in the tactics and techniques needed by
combatant commander in-extremis forces to accomplish assigned missions, to enhance the common skill readiness level of currently designated CIF personnel and to provide a basic entry-level program for personnel assigned to theater CIFs.

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Special Forces Senior Mountaineering Course (Level-2)
Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 22

Prerequisites: Must be assigned to an active duty or National Guard Special Forces Group and must be in the MOS of 18 series, be
physically fit (scored no less than 270 in age group on APFT). Must have mountaineering experience, be on a mountain team and
certified as a basic (Level 3) mountaineer. Must pass the Special Forces physical exam IAW paragraph 5-3, Chapter 5, AR 40-501,
within one year of class date and must report with an SF physical (which is annotated in MEDPROS).
Course Description: Tactical mountain operations, field-craft training, animal packing, maintaining mountaineering equipment,
selecting appropriate mountaineering equipment, high alpine medical considerations, medical emergencies, trauma emergencies,
weather forecasting, belay climbers, construct improvised climbing equipment, casualty extraction, moving non-trained personnel
over vertical obstacles, conducting mountain operations at night, equipment hauling, three-man party climbs with lead climbing
and graded practical exercises. The Senior Mountaineering Course (Level-2) is rock- and alpine-focused on training and educating select SF Soldiers in all Level-2 Mountaineering Skill Sets. Graduates will have the ability to serve as their units subject-matter
experts in tactical military operations in mountainous terrain, lead untrained and indigenous forces over mountainous terrain,
conduct pack-animal operations and have the ability to certify Basic Mountaineers (Level 3) for attendance to the Senior Mountaineering Course.
Special Forces Master Mountaineering Course (Level-1)

Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 22
Prerequisites: Must be assigned to an active duty or National Guard Special

Forces Group in the MOS of 18 series or be assigned to a USSOCOM unit or other
federal agency and meet the USSOCOM SOF baseline interoperable mountaineering training standards IAW USSOCOM Manual 350-34. Must be physically fit
(scored no less than 270 in age group on APFT). Must have mountaineering experience and be a graduate of the USAJFKSWCS Senior Mountaineering Course.
Must pass the Special Forces physical exam IAW paragraph 5-3, Chapter 5, AR
40-501, within one year of class date and must report with an SF physical (which is
annotated in MEDPROS).
Course Description: Tactical mountain operations in a winter environment,
field-craft training, maintaining mountaineering equipment, selecting appropriate alpine mountaineering equipment, high-altitude medical considerations,
cold-weather medical evacuation techniques, weather forecasting, belay climbers,
construct improvised-climbing equipment, avalanche rescue, snowpack analysis,
winter guiding techniques, moving non-trained personnel over winter alpine terrain, alpine bivouac, winter tactical considerations, a tactical culmination exercise.
The Master Mountaineering Course (Level-1) is a winter-alpine mountaineering
course focused on training and educating select SF Soldiers in all Level-1 Mountaineering skill sets. Graduates will have the ability to serve as their units SME on
cold weather, high-altitude, advanced-mountaineering operations, lead untrained
and indigenous forces over mountainous terrain in winter conditions, conduct
avalanche and deliberate vertical-rescue operations and have the ability to serve as
a battalion or group master trainer for mountaineering.
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Security Assistance Team Training and Orientation
Course Number: 3A-F41/011-F24
Clearance: Interim Secret Location: Fort Bragg, Camp Mackall
Prerequisites: DoD military personnel, DoD civilian personnel and civilian contractors on assignment to a security-assistance
teams, as well as accompanying spouses of SAT members.
Scope: General subjects including SERE, antiterrorism and weapons training.
Course Description: Within the U.S. Army, the Security Assistance Training Team Orientation Course provides training required
for security-assistance teams deploying to locations outside the continental United States in either a permanent change of station
or temporary duty status from continental U.S.-based organizations. The course is designed to prepare security-assistance team
members to serve overseas as official representatives of the U.S. Government and U.S. Army.
The course is taught at two threat leavels: one for deployments to countries considered to have a normal level or risk, and the other
for those with a high-risk based on U.S. State Department guidance.
The POI is divided into five general areas: general subjects, SERE, antiterrorism, weapons training and administration. The highrisk option adds additional emphasis on SERE and anti-terrorist training. There is also a live-fire element. In cases where the team
is deploying to an area with an extremely high-level of threat, the members will attend the Individual Terrorist Awareness Course.
Special Operations Combatives Program Instructor

Class Size: 24
Clearance: Secret Location: Fort Bragg, Camp Mackall

Iterations: TBD
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites.

Scope: Special Operations Combatives Program (SOCP) consists of two modules of training: Special Operations Combatives
(Level 1) and Special Operations Combatives Instructor Program (Level 2). Special Operations Combatives Level 1 will include
training on the fundamentals of strikes, clinch and ground fighting; an introduction to fighting ranges; warrior mindset and effects
of adrenaline; blades and improvised weapons; the 9-7-5 circuit; cuffing techniques; and vehicle interdiction/extraction. Special
Operations Combatives Instructor Program (Level 2) will teach students the training methodologies for fighting ranges; the fundamentals of strikes, clinch and ground fighting; warrior mindset and effects of adrenaline; blades and improvised weapons; the
9-7-5 circuit; cuffing techniques; and vehicle interdiction/extraction. Additionally, students in the Instructor Program will learn
the mechanics of SOCP-training implementation to include instruction on risk assessments, safety, lesson-plan development and
realism based/task specific scenario training.
Course Description: Upon graduation of the Special Operations Combatives Program Instructor Course, students will have the
skills needed to teach the fundamentals of striking, fighting and clinching, the understanding of the warrior mindset and effects of
adrenaline and the use of blades and improvised weapons.
ARSOF Common Core

Course Number: 2E-F282
Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 48
Iterations: TBD
Course Description: The ACC is a 12-week course that is taught IAW MLC2015 standards and utilizes the curriculum approved
by the School for Advanced Leadership and Tactics and TRADOC as well as maneuver lessons. The ARSOF Common Core builds
on Army doctrinal foundations with a core curriculum focusing on mission command, planning, training, unified land operation,
critical thinking and JIIM that buildings twoard a series of exercise spirals that cover ULO and focuses on transitions using immersive technology. A capstone exercise then leverages the latest mission command system and technology in a week-long high-paced
ULO exercise that reflects the current operating environments. This is the first phase of the Captains Career Course for 37A, 38A
and 18A series officers. AC/RC officers must complete the selection requirement for their branch before attending.
Army Special Operations Forces

Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape (SERE) High Risk (Level C)
Course Number: 3A-F38/012-F27

Class Size: 100

Iterations: 17
Course Duration: 3 Weeks 4 Days
Prerequisites: Must be a U.S. citizen in the

Army active- or reserve-component special-operations forces. Students must possess a minimum of an interim secret clearance. Students
must have a memorandum from their security
manager verifying their secret clearance dated
not earlier than 30 days prior to the start date.
Students must possess a completed physical within two years of the start date. Physical
must include a normal EKG and urinalysis test.
Students must report with deployment medicalrecords jacket during inprocessing. Any physical
abnormalities will require a written evaluation
by the appropriate medical specialists. Letter
required from the Soldiers unit commander
verifying that the applicant has received training
in drown-proofing techniques. Any variation
from the above standards requires a waiver from
the Commanding General, SWCS.
Scope: Intensive training in support of the Code of Conduct. Training includes survival fieldcraft skills, techniques of evasion,
resistance to exploitation and resolution skills in all types of environments. Students will participate in a survival-and-evasion field
training exercise and in a resistance training laboratory. When SERE is done in conjunction with SFQC, the physical that was acceptable for SFAS/SFQC will suffice.
Course Description: Level-C is designed for personnel whose jobs, specialties or assignments entail a significant or high risk of
capture and exploitation. AR 350-30 supports DoD 1300.21s mandate: As a minimum, the following categories of personnel shall
receive formal Level-C training at least once in their careers: combat aircrews, special operations forces (e.g., Navy special warfare
combat swimmers and special boat units, Army Special Forces, Rangers, Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance units, Air Force
Special Tactics teams, and Military Information Support units) and military attaches. The SERE Level-C training facility at Camp
Mackall is one of only four facilities within the Department of Defense that is authorized to conduct Level-C training. The Air
Force conducts training at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., and the Navy has facilities in Brunswick, Maine, and at North Island,
Calif. The Army Aviation Center at Fort Rucker, Ala., is in the process of building another Level-C facility.
With the exception of minor periodic adjustments in content and length, SERE instruction at Camp Mackall has changed little
since Lt. Col. Nick Rowe conducted the first Level-C course in 1986. The course spans three weeks with three phases of instruction,
with the first phase consisting of approximately 10 days of academic instruction on the Code of Conduct and in SERE techniques
that incorporate both classroom learning and hands-on fieldcraft.
The second phase is a five-day field training exercise in which the students practice their survival and evasion skills by procuring
food and water, constructing evasion fires and shelters and evading tracker dogs and aggressor forces over long distances. The final
phase takes place in the resistance training laboratory, a mock prisoner-of-war camp, where students are tested on their individual
and collective abilities to resist interrogation and exploitation and to properly apply the six articles of the Code of Conduct in a
realistic captivity scenario. The course culminates with a day of debriefings in which the students receive individual and group
feedback from the instructors. These constructive critiques help students process everything they have been through, to solidify the
skills they applied properly and to identify areas that need adjustment. An important capability taught focuses on a broad spectrum of current captivity environments. The Peace Time/Government Hostage Detention component provides students with the
situational awareness needed to resist exploitation in a number of unpredictable environments common in the current operational
arena, from friendly government detentions to highly volatile hostage and terrorist captivities. PGD/HD incorporates a unique
learning tool, the academic role-play laboratory, in which students benefit from observing and critiquing each other in role-play
scenarios with the instructors.
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Welcome
Medical Courses
to SWCS
Civil Affairs Medical Sergeant
Location: Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center, Fort Bragg, N.C.
Class Size: 16
Prerequisites: Students must have graduated from course 300-ASIW1 Special Operations Combat Medic.
Scope: Recognize the relevance of medical threats for field forces; environmental health programs; medical threat briefing prep
and presentation; assess/conduct/advise host nation in waterborne illness/disease identification, investigation and prevention;
assess/conduct/advise host nation in water analysis, sampling, testing, purifying; assess/conduct/advise host nation in foodborne
illness/disease, identification, investigation and prevention; assess/conduct/advise host nation in arthropodborne illness/disease
identification, investigation, prevention and control; veterinary emergency and preventative care for large and domestic animals;
simple farm systems (animal/crop), environmental factors impacting host nation livestock/crops; and dental disease recognition
and emergency treatment.
Course Description: The Civil Affairs Medical Sergeant Course is a six-week program of instruction that teaches four 16-student
classes per year. The CAMS Course is a challenging program with an emphasis on the assessment, evaluation, planning and execution of preventive medicine techniques and strategies as a CA team member working within a host nation. The course is designed
to foster critical thinking and problem-solving skills through conference/discussion and hands-on performance-based training
relevant to the prevention and control of the vectors, hosts and reservoirs linked to water-, food- and arthropodborne disease
affecting humans and animals; assessment of simple farm systems and the environmental factors impacting host-nation livestock
and crops; assessment of equipment serviceability and need of host-nation medical hospitals, clinics and laboratories; and evaluation, planning and conduct of medical civic-action projects. Students will also receive training in how to interpret/communicate
results from a culture, hematology, blood and urinalysis tests; large and small animal veterinary care and treatment; create/present
a Medical Threat Briefing for a specific area of operation; and emergency dental care and treatment.
Special Operations Combat Medic

Course Number: 300-ASIW1
Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 64
Prerequisites: Must be a volunteer in any enlisted rank of the Army, Air Force or Navy. Complete the Adult Basic Education test
within six months of course entry date. Pass the Army Physical Fitness Test with a minimum of 60 points in each event and an
overall score of 240 or above scored in the students age group standards IAW TC 3-22.20 or service equivalent. Hold or be designated for assignment to a special-operations medical position. Air Force and Navy: Personnel selected for attendance should have
qualifications equivalent to the course prerequisites for Army personnel.
Purpose: To train and qualify selected enlisted service members in the management of trauma, medical emergencies and routine
medical conditions. In addition, this course is a prerequisite to the Special Forces Medical Sergeant Course (18D Qualification
Course) and the Civil Affairs Medical Sergeant Course.
Course Description: The Special Operations Combat Medic Course is a 36-week program of instruction that teaches eight 64-student
classes per year. The target audience for SOCM is Army, Navy or Air Force enlisted service members who hold, or are designated for assignment to a special-operations medical position. The course qualifies these enlisted service members as highly-trained combat medics
with the necessary skills and abilities to provide initial medical and trauma care and who have an aptitude to increase team survivability.
SOCM is designed to teach the special-operations combat medic the knowledge and skills required to manage combat casualties from
initial point of injury through evacuation. Additionally, the course teaches the student skills that enable him to prescribe appropriate treatments for diagnosed diseases in accordance with tactical medical emergency protocols and their corresponding formulary. Students graduating from SOCM are certified as National Registry EMTs at the basic level. They are also qualified in basic life support, pediatric education
for pre-hospital providers and advanced cardiac life support. The course consists of 19 academic modules. These modules are structured in
a manner that takes a student from having no medical background to performing acute life-saving interventions in 36 weeks.
Special Information: The SOCM must take the Advanced Tactical Paramedic Examination, which is a cumulative, externally promulgated written exam administered by the USSOCOM ATP Certification Committee. Students must pass the ATP examination
to deploy as a USSOCOM medic.
Medical
Special Operations Combat Medical Skills Sustainment

Course Number: 2E-F222/300-F21 (CT) Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 42

Prerequisites: A SOF service member with a primary duty specialty in SOF medicine or an enlisted or officer instructor in the
SOCM or ADSOCM courses and be assigned or projected for assignment to one of the following: USSOCM, JSOC, USASOC,
NAVSPECWARCOM, AFSOC, or any of their subordinate units or agencies. Service members will attend the course once every
two years to receive special-operations combat medical refresher training.
Scope: SOCMSSC consists of two modules that blend operational medicine and trauma unique to the special-operations environment. The operational medicine module includes American Heart Association basic life support, advanced cardiac life support,
pediatric advanced life support recertification, general medical subjects and special-operations specific medical subjects. The SOF
trauma module consists of tactical combat casualty care, advanced combat trauma life support, including pre-hospital trauma life
support and a live tissue lab. The course culminates with a dynamic tactical combat casualty care field exercise. The course emphasizes the use of SOF scenarios and equipment. The course meets or exceeds the NREMTP reregistration requirements, which
includes a 48-hour Department of Transportation EMT-P refresher course and 24 hours of continuing education.
Course Description: The SOCMSSC is a two-week program of instruction that teaches 22, 42-student classes per year. The target
audience for SOCMSSC is SOC- qualified special-operations medical personnel to include Army, Navy or Air Force enlisted or
officer service members assigned to USSOCOM, JSOC, USASOC, NAVSPECWARCOM or AFSOC.
The course is designed to sustain the perishable medical skills of the special-operations combat medic and is required every two
years for enlisted service members holding these positions. In addition, the 88-hour course exceeds the National Registry EMT reregistration requirements for NREMT-paramedic.
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Medical
Special Forces Medical Sergeant and Special Operations Independent Duty Corpsman Course
Course Number: 011-18D30-C45 ALC (Army) 011-F68 (Navy)
Clearance: Secret
Proponent: SWMG
Class Size: 30
SF Medical Sergeant:
Prerequisites:
Army: Male enlisted (E3-E8) only who have been selected
to enter and participate in the Special Forces Qualification Course and who have graduated from the Special
Operations Combat Medic Course. Students must have
successfully passed the Special Operations Forces Orientation Course, SUT and SERE beofre entering Phase 3 MOS
medical training.
Navy: Male only E5 or above, SEAL, Special Warfare
Combat Crewman or Fleet Marine Force Reconnaissance
Corpsman. All attendees must be graduates of the Special
Operations Combat Medic course. If the SEAL, SWCC,
FMF HM is a past graduate of SOCM then he must atend
the two-week SOCM Skills Sustainment Course prior to
entering SODIC to prevent his credentials from expiring
during the SOIDC course.
Scope: : Recognize the relevance of medical threats
for field forces; environmental health programs; medical threat briefing prep and presentation; preventative
medicine; veterinary emergency and preventative care for
large and domestic animals; basic laboratory medicine;
emergency and delayed surgical treatment and anesthesia
in austere environments.
Course Description: The Special Forces Medical Sergeants course is a 16-week program of instruction that teaches eight classes
per year. The target audience for SFMS is SOCM-qualified Army enlisted service members currently in the Special Forces Qualification Course. The course qualifies 18D students in the advanced skills and knowledge required to perform duties as a Special
Forces Medical Sergeant. SFMS is designed to teach 18Ds the knowledge and skills required to perform as supervised providers
in CONUS environments and allowing 18Ds to provide health care as independent providers OCONUS and on mission deployments. Independent provider means the 18D is supervised indirectly after diagnosis and treatment has taken place. The course
consists of 5 academic modules. Topics included in training are veterinary, operational medical planning; medical subspecialty
area; war wound management, to include surgery, general intravenous anesthesia, long-term wound therapy, medical documentation and central materials service; regional anesthesia; and radiology/ultrasound. The course includes a 24 day clinical rotation at a
civilian, military or public-health service hospital where students work, learn and are mentored by licensed medical providers.
Special Operations Independent Duty Corpsman:

Prerequisites: Male only E5 or above, SEAL, Special Warfare Combat Crewman or Fleet Marine Force Reconnaissance Corpsman.
All attendees must be graduates of the Special Operations Combat Medic course. If the SEAL, SWCC, FMF HM is a past graduate of SOCM then he must attend the two-week Special Operations Combat Medical Skills Sustainment Course prior to entering
SOIDC to prevent his credentials from expiring during the SOIDC course.
Course Description: The Special Operations Independent Duty Corpsman/Medic course is a duplicate of all didactic and hands
on training as the SFMS course. The target audience for SOIDC is SOCM-qualified Navy enlisted service members. SEAL and
SWCC personnel graduating from the course earn the designation of Special Operation Independent Duty Medic and Corpsmen
earn the SOIDC Navy Enlisted Qualification.
SOF
SWCS
Language
organization
Courses
Basic Language
Course Number: see below
Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 6
Course Duration: 25 weeks 1 day

Prerequisites: U.S. Army active, reserve and
National Guard component commissioned Officer
Branch 18 and Functional Area 39 (37A/38C0).
Warrant officers MOS 180A, enlisted MOS in CMF
18, Enlisted MOS 37F, and other qualified ARSOF,
MARSOC, Air Force and Navy SOF personnel who
have designated follow-on assignment to the U.S.
Special Operations Command.
Scope: The following areas of emphasis are convered
during the training: overview of physical and social
systems, economics, politics and security, infrastructure
and technology information, culture and regional studies. Language instruction focuses on functional application geared towards mission-related tasks, enhanced
rapport-building techniques, cultural mitigation strategies, interpreting and control of interpreter methods.
Course Description: The Basic Special Operations
Language Training provides instruction in three basic
language skills: Speaking/Listening/Reading (limited).
Soldiers must achieve a minimum Interagency Language Roundtable in listening and speaking as measured by the two-skill Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI).
Language
Course Number
Language
Course Number
Pashto-Afghan
2E-F219/011-F90 (PV)
Modern Standard Arabic
2E-F121/011-F36
Dari
2E-F216/011-F87
French
2E-F120/011-F35
Indonesian
2E-F212/011-F83
Russian
2E-F118/011-F33
Chinese-Mandarin
2E-F214/011-F85
Spanish
2E-F117/011-F32
Tagalog
2E-F125/011-F40
Thai
2E-F215/011-F86 (CM)
Persian Farsi
2E-F122/011-F37
Korean
2E-F115/011-F30 (KP)
Urdu
2E-F267/011-F106 (UR)
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Welcome
NCO Academy
to SWCS
Todays NCOES
The Army has implemented a Web-based professional-development program called Structured Self Development that teaches
common core foundational knowledge and is tied directly to courses for the different levels of NCOES.
SSD Level 1 has been implemented for enlisted Soldiers in the Warrior Leader Course.
SSD Level 2 is taught during the enlisted qualification course with the Advanced Leader Course material.
SSD Level 3 is to become a prerequisite for the Senior Leader Course with a proposed date of 1 June 2013.
SSD Level 4 will be implemented at the Sergeants Major Academy.
The following are the course offerings by the SWCS Noncommissioned Officer Academy:
Civil Affairs Senior Leaders Course

Course Number: 570-38B40-C46
Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 32

Prerequisites: Advanced Leader Course graduate.
Scope: The program of instruction begins with a detailed political-military analysis that sets up the culmination planning exercise.
The CPX forces students to synthesize their skills and function as members of Civil Affairs teams, company-level civil-military
operations cells and the J9 staff section of a joint special-operations task force. Graduates are prepared to lead and plan CA tactics
and operations at multiple levels.
Course Description: The Civil Affairs Senior Leader Course is designed to provide CA senior NCOs the skills they will need to
serve as team sergeants and planners at various echelons, from the brigade combat team to group, division and corps levels. The
current SLC is a six-week course training and educating CA NCOs in CA and civil-military operations.
Noncommissioned Officer Academy

NCOA
PSYOP Advanced Leaders Course
Course Number: 243-37F30-C45
Class Size: 20

Scope: During the course, students participate in a Military Information Support Operations staff training exercise and a culmination-planning exercise in order to allow them to practically apply and build confidence in their newly acquired skills.
Course Description: PSYOP ALC provides training on all requisite MISO critical tasks to effectively serve as brigade-level staff
planner, tactical team sergeant, as well as operational detachment team leader. PSYOP NCOES provides tomorrows leaders with
the necessary skills and training in the following areas: leadership, military studies, resource management, effective communications, operations, tactics, MISO persuasion and influence, targeting, operations planning and techniques and administrative skills.
PSYOP Senior Leaders Course

Course Number: 243-37F40-C46
Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 20

Scope: Students are trained on the critical tasks necessary to effectively serve as joint MISO planners as well as operational and
tactical detachment sergeants. The SLC concludes with a robust CPX in which the students are required to test their skills and
knowledge in the development of a strategic MISO program.
Course Description: The PSYOP SLC hones a MISO NCOs expertise in influence and persuasion by expounding upon proven
theories of psychology and the methodology of producing measurable results within full-spectrum operations. PSYOP NCOES
provides tomorrows leaders with the necessary skills and training in the following areas: leadership, military studies, resource
management, effective communications, operations, tactics, Military Information Support Operations, persuasion and influence,
targeting, operations planning and techniques and administrative skills.
Special Forces Senior Leaders Course

Course Number: 0-18-C46(DL) 0-18-C46 Phase II
Clearance: Secret
dL Class Size: 75
Course Duration: 6 months
Resident Class Size: 75

Prerequisites: N/A
Scope: Psychological assessments, intellectual assessments, physical assessments and individual and team dilemma-based problem
solving assessments.
Course Description: The SF Senior Leader Course is implemented in two programs of instruction each representing a different
phase of the course and each runs on a monthly basis for a total of eight starts per year. In Phase I, often referred to as the distributed learning phase, students have up to six months to complete more than 100 lessons delivered in 30 online classes and take four
end-of-module exams. Phase I classes focus on knowledge-based information the conceptual foundation upon which Phase
II builds and assesses. The NCOAs Department of Digital Development creates all the academys Web-based offerings in-house,
keeping content up-to-date, relevant and representative of ever-evolving force demands. Currently, upon Phase I completion,
students have up to six months to enroll in Phase II. Phase II consists of 20 days of resident instruction over the course of approximately three weeks. The resident phase not only amplifies Phase I concepts but adds instruction on performance-based knowledge
and skills, such as military briefs and advanced planning techniques. The SLC currently enrolls eligible E6(P) and E7s whose chain
of command recommends taking the next step in professional military education. Graduates of the Senior Leader Course will
return to their units as better informed, multi-dimensional special operators, polished planners and astute leaders.
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Warrant
Welcome
officer
to SWCS
institute
Special Forces Warrant Officer Technical and Tactical Certification

Course Number: 2E-180A
Clearance: Secret

Prerequisites: Active- and reserve-component warrant officers selected for participation in the warrant-officer program IAW
provisions of AR-135-100, DA Pam 600-3 Commissioned Officer Professional Development and Career Management and DA PAM
601-6 Warrant Officer Procurement Program. Soldier must meet all requirements for the initial award of MOS 180A, as prescribed
in DA PAM 611-21, Military Occupational Classification and Structure. Any variation from the above standards requires a waiver
from the Commanding General, SWCS.
Scope: The Special Forces Warrant Officer Technical and Tactical Certification Course is a branch-specific course conducted
by the SF Warrant Officer Institute at SWCS, Fort Bragg, N.C. It provides the opportunity for select NCOs, from career field 18,
to earn an appointment as a WO1. SFWOTTCC is divided into 11 training modules. The training modules include basic-officer
leadership, military history and profession, Army training management, intelligence activities, preparation of the environment, targeting, the military-decision making process, ARSOF doctrine and operations, personnel recovery, antiterrorism/force protection,
whole-of-government cooperation and a culmination exercise. Upon graduation from SFWOTTCC, 180A SF WOs will return to
the SF regiment as assistant detachment commanders prepared to conduct missions across the operational continuum.
Course Description: To train, educate and technically certify SF WO candidates as combat leaders and staff officers who conduct and
contribute to all aspects of SF operations in all operational environments and across the operational continuum. The 180A will receive
specialized training in combined, joint, strategic, operational and tactical requirements of planning and execution of special operations worldwide. The 180A will be trained to be subject-matter experts in UW, the fusion of intelligence and operations and to lead the
effort in the joint integration of emerging technologies. He will be trained to advise commanders on the application of ASO and the SF
core activities of UW, FID, SFA, COI), DA, SR, CT, CP of weapons of mass destruction and information operations.
Warrant Officer Institute

Special Forces Warrant Officer Advanced Course (SFWOAC Resident Phase II)
Course Number: 2-33-C32(DL)/2-33-C32 Clearance: TS/SCI
Class Size: 30
Iterations: 3


Prerequisites: Must successfully complete the SFWOAC Phase 1 dL). Must be a branch managed CMF 180A.
Scope: The course consists of four educational modules. Module I (Foundations) provides the students with the educational foundations required to function as a mid-grade warrant officer and to progress through the rest of the course to achieve the desired
outcomes. The module includes the following: military-briefing techniques, effective writing and research methods, training-management development, duties and responsibilities of senior SF warrant officers at all levels and the proper development of NCO
evaluations. Module II (Operational Design & Planning) is designed to help the student interpret the complexities of planning
from the tactical to the operational level for application of the SF principal tasks. The module includes the following: employment
of an advanced operations base, isolation facility and a specialoperations command and control element, targeting processes and
procedures, planning for and employing fires and the application of the military-decision making process. The module culminates
with a mission-planning exercise designed to improve the students ability to assist with planning as a member of a staff. Module
III (Battalion Operations) provides the student the knowledge necessary to describe functions and interpret complex processes at
the battalion and higher level. The module focuses on special-operations task force operations, the joint-interagency-intergovernmental-multinational environment; political-military-economic-social-infrastructure-information systems analysis, information
operations, military funding and statutory authorities, theater-security cooperation planning considerations, IW, UW, COIN and
special activities. Module IV (Campaign Planning) provides the student the ability to interpret and explain campaign support
planning. The module includes an in-depth analysis of national plans and policy and how both inform the development of theatercampaign plans and SOF-supporting plans and how military art and design is incorporated into campaign-support planning.
Course Description: To provide Special Forces CW2s and CW3s with professional-military education to increase their capability
to support staff operations and planning at the SF company and battalion levels and at key-developmental assignments outside SF.
Special Forces Warrant Officer Staff Course Phase III

Course Number: 2E-FOS-C8
Clearance: TS/SCI
Proponent: Warrant Officer Institute

Prerequisites: Must be a CW3 or CW4 and a graduate of the SFWOAC; must be branch-managed in CMF 180A and a graduate of
the Warrant Officer Staff Course (Phase I and II).
Scope: The course consists of three modules within four weeks of upper level education encompassing history, theory, doctrine
and application. Module I (Foundations) provides the warrant officers a chance to exercise and improve their critical thinking,
adaptability and effective use of communications by conducting mission analysis on a theater-level contingency plan, while working towards the development of a SOF-supporting plan. In Module II (Military Campaign History), the students increase their
understanding of campaigns by analyzing key military campaigns and SOF supporting plans conducted during critical times in the
20th century. During Module III (Campaign Planning), students will step away from history and focus on the actual mechanics
involved in the preparation of campaign plans through the study of doctrine, operational art and design and the joint-operational
planning process. Module III continues into the fourth week where the students shift from the theoretical to the practical application of their knowledge during the conduct of a mission-planning exercise at the TSOC level of a SOF supporting plan.
Course Description: The purpose of the course is to provide CW3s and CW4s with upper-level professional-military education to increase their capability of supporting the complexities of staff operations and planning at the SF Battalion, group
and theater levels.
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StaffWelcome
and faculty
to SWCS
courses
Special Operations Forces Pre-Command Course
Course Number: 2G-F91/011-F79
Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 50

Prerequisites: Must be selected for an ARSOF command or command sergeant major billet of an SF, CA, MISO, Ranger, special
operations aviation or special-mission unit squadron, battalion, regiment or group.
Scope: Current SOF doctrine; organizations; capabilities; training-management procedures; leader development; and command
responsibilities. Focuses on required warfighting; leading; training; caring; and maintenance skills needed to survive the first 90
days in command and culminates with a scenario-based, tabletop risk-free crisis-management exercise that provides a medium for
exercising the decision-making process in the context of the special-operations operational environment.
Course Description: To assist ARSOF command designees and command sergeants major to prepare for battalion, group or regiment/brigade command by training on tasks and subjects unique to ARSOF commanders.
Training Developers Workshop

Course Number:
Clearance: Secret
Class Size: 12
Course Duration: 1 week 4 days

Prerequisites: N/A
Scope: The workshop teaches SWCS training developers and senior instructors how to analyze, design and develop instructional
material and subject matter in accordance with guidelines outlined in TRADOC Reg 350-70 and local standard-operating procedures. This workshop is a combination of group and self-paced modules with some conference and seminar time.
Course Description: This workshop is a requirement for all training developers and senior lesson-plan developers. It is also a prerequisite for attending the TRADOC Training Developers Middle Managers Course. This course includes all TRADOC analysis,
design and development common-core tasks.
Special Operations Instructor Course (SOIC)

Course Number: 2E-SI5K/SQI8/011-SQIH
Clearance: Secret
Proponent: Staff and Faculty, SWEG (A) Location: Fort Bragg or TRADOC Resident
Class Size: 28

Prerequisites: N/A
Course Description: TRADOC Army Basic Instructor Course and Small Group Instruction courses with ARSOF-specific classes
added. Upon completion, the Soldier will be able to instruct an effective lesson to different types of learners using the appropriate
teaching strategy.
Staff and Faculty Development

Special Operations Aspiring Leader Program
Course Number: N/A
Clearance: Secret
Proponent: Staff and Faculty, SWEG (A) Location: Fort Bragg
Class Size: 12
Course Duration: Multiple Dates
Prerequisites: Civilian employees at SWCS, USASOC or JSOC; permanent or term (full time), GS/WG 4-9, one year at SWCS
preferred; highly successful or better on most recent performance appraisal.
Scope: The SOALP will require a six-month commitment. Attendees are nominated by their supervisor and usually meet once a
month, sometimes more often, if needed. A personal commitment is required by the participant and their supervisor. Monthly reading assignments and homework should be completed after normal duty hours. Students will complete two SkillSoft courses prior to
the first day of the course. Students will begin prepping for oral presentations during the first month of the course. Team building is
taught throughout the course to stress the importance of working with others. SOALP activities include, but are not limited to, the
following: professional reading and discussion; interviewing and shadowing senior leaders; identifying and establishing a mentor;
teamwork; conflict management; diversity; briefing/communication skills; and identifying and setting personal goals.
Course Description: The goal of the Special Operations Aspiring Leader Program is to give aspiring leaders insight into what it
takes to develop into the leaders of tomorrow.
7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Course Number: N/A
Class Size: 12
Clearance: Secret

Prerequisites: N/A
Scope: Psychological assessments, intellectual assessments, physical assessments and individual and team (dilemma-based)
problem-solving assessments.
Course Description: This internationally recognized Stephen R. Covey training program teaches seven habits to increase personal
and professional effectiveness. The seven habits are applied in relation to personal vision, personal leadership, personal management, interpersonal leadership, empathic communication, creative cooperation and balanced self-renewal. Participants learn how
to see, think and act more effectively in order to get better results, to take responsibility and to become more opportunity-minded
in their work assignments. An intensive, three-day workshop that provides participants with a robust and tactical implementation
plan to fully integrate the seven habits into their lives. Designed for anyone looking to become a more effective person regardless of your occupation, position or stage in life.
Newcomers Briefing and Orientation Tour

Course Number: N/A
Clearance: Secret
Proponent: Staff and Faculty, SWEG (A) Location: Fort Bragg, Camp Mackall
Class Size: N/A
Course Duration: 1 Day
Prerequisites: N/A
Scope: The orientation is to familiarize newcomers with the SWCS organization. They will receive a command-philosophy briefing
by the commanding general or the deputy commanding general. The day-long tour will showcase the SWCS campus.
Course Description: The Newcomers Orientation will begin at 8 a.m. in the Kennedy Hall Auditorium. The all-day guided tour
will begin immediately following the welcome briefing. Transportation will be provided for the tour. The tour consists of the SWCS
campus footprint including the Rowe Training Compound (Camp Mackall), and it may include stops at the following facilities (depending on time and availability): Range 37, Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center, Armament Facility, Wind Tunnel
and JFK Museum. The orientation will conclude with a briefing from the SWCS staff and commands.
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Special Operations Doctrine

civil affairs
AOJK-DT-CA@AHQB.SOC.MIL
FM 3-57
ATP 3-57.10
ATP 3-57.20
ATP 3-57.30
GTA 41-01-001
GTA 41-01-002
CA Operations
PRC
CA Support to FHA (CRC)
MST for CA Support to NA
CA Team Operations
CA Arts, Monuments & Archives Guide
CA Foreign Humanitarian Assistance
GTA 41-01-003
Planning Guide
GTA 41-01-004
Joint CA/CMO Planning Guide
GTA 41-01-005
Religious Factors Analysis
GTA 41-01-006
Working With OFDA
GTA 41-01-007
CA Project Management
GTA 41-01-008
Negotiations and Mediation
GTA 41-01-010
CA Protection Considerations Guide
STP 41-38B14-SM-TG Soldiers Manual and Trainers Guide
STP 41-38II-OFS
OFS II, CA (38), Officers Manual
CATS 41730G000
HHC, CA Brigade (USAR)
CATS 41702G100
HHC, CA Brigade (SOF)
CATS 41730G100
HHC, CA Brigade (CF)
CATS 41736G100
HHC, CA Battalion (SOF)
CATS 41736G600
HHC, CA Battalion (ABN)
CATS 41702G600
HHC, CA Brigade (ABN)
CATS 41740G100
HHC, CA Battalion (CF)
CATS 41740G000
HHC, CA Battalion (USAR)
CATS 41750G100
CA Company (CF)
CATS 41710G000
CACOM (USAR)
CATS 41750G000
CACOM
CATS 41737G600
CACOM (ABN)
CATS 41737G100
CACOM (CA Bn) (ABN)
Military Information Support

FM 3-05.301
FM 3-53
ATP 3-53.02
STP 33-37II-OFS
STP 33-37F14-SM-TG
TC 53-03.2
CATS 33726G000
CATS 33712G000
CATS 33712G100
CATS 33716G000
CATS 33736G000
CATS 33736G100
CATS 33727G000
CATS 33737G000
N/A
AOJK-DT-SF@AHQB.SOC.MIL
ATP 3-18.04
(C) SF Special Reconnaissance TTP (U)
Jan 11
ATP 3-18.11
SF Military Free-Fall Operations
Oct 11
ATP 3-18.20
(S/NF) SF ASOT (U)
Jan 07
ATP 3-18.72
(S/NF) SF Personnel Recovery (U)
Jun 03
ATP 3-18.03
(C) SF Direct Action Opserations (U)
Jan 09
ATP 3-18.10
SF Air Ops
Feb 09
Aug 09
ATP 3-18.12
SF Waterborne Ops
Sep 09
Sep 07
Jan 08
Oct 07
Nov 12
Jan 11
Aug 10
Jan 08
Apr 04
Jul 12
Dec 10
Jul 12
Dec 10
Oct 12
Oct 12
Oct 12
Oct 12
Oct 12
Dec 10
Dec 12
Oct 12
Dec 10
ATP 3-18.13
SF Use of Pack Animals
Jun 04
ATP 3-18.50
SF Base Camps
Feb 09
ATP 3-18.14
SF Vehicle-Mounted Ops
Nov 09
ATP 3-18.01
SF Unconventional Warfare
Sep 10
FM 3-18
SF Operations
Mar 12
GTA 31-01-003
Detachment Mission Planning Guide
Jul 12
GTA 31-02-002
ATO
Aug 04
GTA 31-02-003
SF Dive Ops
Nov 10
GTA 31-70-001
SF SERE Communications
Apr 09
STP 31-18
SF Common Skills
Oct 03
AOJK-DT-PO@AHQB.SOC.MIL
PSYOP Process TTP

MISO
MILINFO in Conventional Ops
OFS II, PSYOP, Officers Manual
PSYOP Specialist, SL 14
(S) MISO Targeting (U)
H&S Co, MIS BN
HHC, MIS Group
HHC, MIS Group (USAR)
HSC, Dissemination BN
HSC, Tactical MIS BN
HSC, Tactical MIS BN (USAR)
PDC
Tactical MIS Company
Equipment Types, Specifications, &
Capabilities
Special forces
Oct 11
Jan 13
Jan 12
Oct 12
Jan 08
Aug 09
Aug 07
Jan 13
Oct 05
Jul 07
Jul 08
Aug 08
Oct 11
Oct 11
Nov 11
Aug 11
Nov 11
Nov 11
Jun 12
Jun 12
Apr 05
STP 31-18B34-SM-TG SF Weapons SGT, SL 3/4
Oct 04
STP 31-18C34-SM-TG SF Engineer SGT, SL 3/4
Jul 03
STP 31-18D34-SM-TG SF Medical SGT, SL 3/4
Oct 03
STP 31-18E34-SM-TG SF Communications SGT, SL 3/4
Feb 10
STP 31-18F4-SM-TG
SF Assistant O&I SGT, Skill Level 4
Sep 94
TC 18-06
SF Guide to IO
Apr 12
TC 18-32
SF Sniper Training and Employment
Jun 12
TC 25-8-1
ARSOF Ranges
Aug 11
TC 18-31
SFAUC
Jul 06
TC 18-22
(S/NF) SF Guide to PE (U)
Jun 07
TC 18-02
SF Advisor Guide
Jul 08
TC 18-21
SF Fingerprint ID System
Sep 08
TC 18-20
Sensitive Site Exploitation (U)
Oct 09
TC 18-35
SF Tracking/Countertracking
Sep 09
CATS 31827G000
Gp Spt Co, SF Gp Spt BN
Nov 11
CATS 31828G000
Gp Svc Spt Co, SF Gp Spt BN
Nov 11
CATS 31812G000
HHC, SFG (ABN) (AC Only)
Feb 11
CATS 31812G100
HHC, SFG (ABN) (NG Only)
Feb 11
CATS 31816G000
HQ Det/SF BN (C DET)
Feb 11
CATS 31826G000
HQ Det, SFG Spt BN
Nov 11
CATS 31817G100
SF Co (Expanded) SF Bn (Expanded) (ABN) Feb 11
CATS 31817G200
SF Co (Mobile) SF BN (Mobile) (ABN)
Feb 11
CATS 31817G000
SF Co SF Bn (ABN)
Feb 11
CATS 31818G100
Spt Co (Mobile) SF Bn (Mobile) (ABN)
Nov 11
CATS 31818G000
Spt Co SF Bn (ABN)
Nov 11
CATS 31813G000
Spt Co SF Gp (ABN)
Nov 11
Special Operations Doctrine

ARSOF
AOJK-DT-JA@AHQB.SOC.MIL
ADP 3-05
Special Operations
Aug 12
ADRP 3-05
Special Operations
Aug 12
FM 3-05
ARSOF
Dec 10
ATP 3-05.68
NEO
Nov 09
ATP 3-05.11
CBRN
Nov 09
ATP 3-05.2
Foreign Internal Defense
Sep 11
ATP 3-05.40
Sustainment
Feb 09
ATP 3-05.60
Communications
Oct 09
ATP 3-05.21
(S/NF) Intelligence (U)
Jul 07
ATP 3-05.20
SO Intelligence
Jan 13
ATP 3-76
Aviation
Oct 11
ATM ARSOA
3-.4.11
Commanders Aircrew Training

Program
Feb 12
ATM ARSOA
AH-6/MH
Aug 05
ATM ARSOA
MH-47
Jul 05
ATM ARSOA
MH-60
Feb 04
ATM ARSOA
CASA 212
Sep 08
GTA 31-02-001
SF Air Operations
Feb 11
ATP 3-75
Ranger Operations
May 12
TC 25 8-1
ARSOF Training Ranges
Aug 11
AVIATION
RANGERS
Accessing ARSOF Publications Online

Army Knowledge Online (AKO)
Doctrine and Training Publications
NIPRNET Address: https://armypubs.us.army.mil/index.html

Instructions: Enter AKO username and password. Scroll down the
page to browse the publications. To find a specific publication, select
EditFind (on This Page)... or type Ctrl+F and type in the publication
number or title. To get a list of Special Forces, Military Information
Support or Civil Affairs publications, choose the appropriate entry in
the Jump to a Different Publication Series field.
Restrictions: No classified publications. No commandant-approved
training products.
General Dennis J. Reimer Training and Doctrine

Digital Library (RDL)
NIPRNET Address: https://rdl.train.army.mil/soldierPortal/soldier.portal

Instructions: Log in with AKO username and password. Select the RDL
Services tab. To locate FMs, TCs, MTPs and STPs, select the Official
Departmental Publications radio button. To locate GTAs, STs, TSPs and
other training products, select the Commandant Approved Training radio button. For a list of available ARSOF publications, select Any from
the Type field and Special Warfare Center from the School field.
Restrictions: No draft publications. No classified publications. Most
ARSOF publications require a user name and password, which must be
requested directly from the RDL.
ARSOF Doctrine and Training Library
NIPRNET Address: https://arsocportal.soc.mil/swcs/dotd/attl/default.aspx

SIPRNET Address: https://portal.usasoc.socom.smil.mil/C2/C13/
ARSOF%20Doctrine%20Library/default.aspx
Instructions: On the left side of the page under documents, select the
appropriate tab (ARSOF, SF, MIS, CA, Rangers, Aviation, SERE, Key
Army, Joint doctrine, doctrine-related products, other doctrine sites).
Restrictions: Available only to users on the Army Special Operations
Command Internal Network (ASOCiNet). Not all classified ARSOF
publications are available online.
DIGITAL TRAINING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (DTMS)

SERE /PR
ATP 3-05.71
(C) ARSOF R&E (U)
Jun 12
GTA 31-70-001
SF SERE Commo Techniques
Apr 09
GTA 21-03-010
Code of Conduct Poster
Oct 89
ST 31-70-1
SERE Legal Reference
Sep 09
Other Publications
PAO_SWCS@AHQB.SOC.MIL
SWCS PUB 09-01, Nov 2009, A Leaders Guide to Unconventional

Warfare by LTC Mark Grdovic
Special Warfare Magazine, Published bimonthly
http://www.soc.mil/swcs/swmag/
NIPRNET Address: https://dtms.army.mil

Instructions: Log in using your CAC card or your AKO username and
password. Hover over the Planning tab at the top of the page, select
CATS Unit List, select proponent, select unit type, click apply filter,
choose desired task.
Restrictions: Access is granted by your unit DTMS manager.
ARMY TRAINING NETWORK (ATN)
NIPRNET Address: https://atn.army.mil

Instructions: Go to the Training Enablers tab at the top of the page
and click Combined Arms Training Strategies (CATS). If the Training Enablers tab is unavaliable at the top of the page, click on the icon
for CATS. Then select your proponent, your unit and then select your
desired task.
Restrictions: None
In all locations, publications are typically available as downloadable portable-document format (PDF) files, readable with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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SWCS Leadership

Academic Year 2013-2014

Civil Affairs (CA)

Reserve Component Courses......................................18

CA Specialist, 38B (AIT)..........................................19

CA Training (Sister Services/Foreign Students)........20

Reserve Component Courses......................................24

PSYOP Specialist (IET).........................................25

PSYOP Officer (International Students)......................26

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Security Assistance Team Training and Orientation.... 42

SF Assessment and Selection.....................................28

Special Operations Combatives Program Instructor.... 42

ARSOF Common Core....................................................... 42

Phase I, Course Orientation and History...................29

SERE High Risk (Level C).............................................43

Phase II, SF Tactical Combat Skills (SUT)..................30

18A, SF Detachment Officer......................................... 30

Civil Affairs Medical Sergeant.....................................44

Phase IV, UW Culex (Robin Sage).............................32

Phase V, Language and Culture................................32

Special Operations Independent Duty Corpsman.....46

Phase VI, Graduation..............................................32

Special Operations Combat Medic.............................44

SPECIAL OPERATIONS LANGUAGE TRAINING

warrant officer institute

STAFF AND FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

SPECIAL OPERATIONS doctrine

Professionalism starts here. We are an adaptive institution characterized by agility, collaboration,

Civil Affairs (CA)

Special Forces (SF)

06 USAJFKSWCS Course Catalog 2013 - 2014

Anticipate and control psychological effects

Recognize political implications

Apply capabilities indirectly

Facilitate interagency activities

Develop multiple options

Engage the threat discriminately

Ensure long-term sustainment

Consider long-term effects

Provide sufficient intelligence

Ensure legitimacy and credibility of special operations

Balance security and synchronization

U.S. Army Special Operations

85th and 95th CA BDEs

U. S. Army John F. Kennedy

Special Warfare Medical

CAC SOF Cell

1st Special Warfare

Special Warfare Education

SWCS Command and Control

Special Warfare Center

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Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate

10 USAJFKSWCS Course Catalog 2013 - 2014

Special Warfare School

1st Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne) [1st SWTG(A)]

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Special Warfare Education Group (Airborne) [SWEG(A)]