8th Special Forces Group (United States) - Notable Operations

Notable Operations

A Mobile Training Team from the 8th Special Forces Group trained and advised the Bolivian Ranger Battalion that captured and killed Che Guevara in the fall of 1967.

Prior to that time, Mobile Training Teams from the 8th Special Forces Group trained counter-insurgent units in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador that killed three of Che Guevara's best friends and Lieutenants that he had personally dispatched to those three nations to foment revolutions.

Mobile training teams from the 8th Special Forces Group also assisted the Venezuelan Army in the construction of their jump school. They trained the first students and the cadre for following classes.

At the U.S. Army Airborne School at Ft Sherman in the U.S. Canal Zone, a team of the 8th Special Forces Group trained Guatemalan airborne personnel.

United States Army Special Forces
Active Groups
  • 1st SFG
  • 3rd SFG
  • 5th SFG
  • 7th SFG
  • 10th SFG
  • 19th SFG
  • 20th SFG
Inactivated Groups
  • 6th SFG
  • 8th SFG
  • 11th SFG
  • 12th SFG
  • 16th SFG

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