The 12th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
2th SFG(A)traces its lineage from the 6th Company, 2nd Battalion, First Regiment,
1st Special Service Force
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, a joint Canadian-American special operations unit from World War II. The 12th Special Forces Group was reconstituted, but not activated, as a Regular Army special operations unit under the
1st Special Forces in 1960 and was subsequently allotted to the Army Reserve in 1969 where it remained until deactivation in 1995.
History
Activated 9 July 1942 at
Fort William Henry Harrison, Montana.
Disbanded 6 January 1945 in France.
Reconstituted 15 April 1960 in Regular Army; concurrently, consolidated with Company C, 2d Infantry Battalion and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 12th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces.
Withdrawn 14 December 1969 from the Regular Army and allotted to the
Army Reserve (organic elements concurrently constituted).
Group activated 24 March 1961 with headquarters at
Chicago
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, Illinois.
Location of headquarters changed 19 January 1964 to
Oak Park, Illinois; changed 1 September 1970 to Arlington Heights, Illinois.
Elements Located at Richards Gebauer AFB in Kansas City Missouri in 1978–80, Northern California (Hamilton AFB), and San Diego, California (Van Deman Hall – USAR)
The Group was inactivated, along with the 11th Special Forces Group, on 15 September 1995.
Many members of the 12th SFG transferred to
20th SFG following the group's inactivation.
References
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Military units and formations established in 1942
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1995