Grupo de Operaciones Especiales (Spain)

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Grupos de Operaciones Especiales
Emblem of the Spanish Army Special Operations Forces.svg
Emblem
Active 1977-
Country Spain
Branch land forces
Type special forces

The Special Operations Groups (Spanish: Grupos de Operaciones Especiales, GOE) are the special operations forces of the Spanish Army.

These units should not be confused with the similar-sounding Grupo Especial de Operaciones (GEO) and Grupos Operativos Especiales de Seguridad (GOES), two police forces, or the Spanish Navy's Unidad de Operaciones Especiales (UOE).

Organization

The three Special Operations Groups are subordinated to the Special Operations Command.

Insignia Group
65px 3rd Special Operations Group "Valencia"
(Grupo de Operaciones Especiales "Valencia" III)
60px 4th Special Operations Group "Tercio del Ampurdán"
(Grupo de Operaciones Especiales "Tercio del Ampurdán" IV)
60px 19th Special Operations Group "Maderal Oleaga"
(Grupo de Operaciones Especiales "Maderal Oleaga" XIX)[1]

Units in 1989

The Special Operations Groups were Ranger type units that specialized in counter-insurgency and guerrilla warfare tactics.

Notes

  1. Formerly Bandera de Operaciones Especiales de la Legión (Spanish Legion Special Operations Flag), BOEL.

External links

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