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Grupo de Operaciones Especiales (Spain)

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Active
  
1977-

Branch
  
land forces

Country
  
Spain

Type
  
special forces

Grupo de Operaciones Especiales (Spain)

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

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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.

Units in 1989

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

  • 1st Special Operations Group "Ordenes Militares" (in Madrid)
  • 2nd Special Operations Group "Santa Fé" (in Granada)
  • 3rd Special Operations Group "Valencia" (in Alicante)
  • 4th Special Operations Group "Almogávares" (in Barcelona)
  • 5th Special Operations Group "San Marcial" (in Burgos)
  • 6th Special Operations Group "La Victoria" (in A Coruña)
  • 7th Special Operations Company (in Palma de Mallorca)
  • 8th Special Operations Company (in Tenerife)
  • 9th Special Operations Company (in Las Palmas)

    • References

    Grupo de Operaciones Especiales (Spain) Wikipedia
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