The 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne) or 4th POG(A) is one of the

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's active military information support operations units along with the 8th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne), which was activated 26 August 2011 at

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. The 8th Group has responsibility for the 3rd and 9th Psychological Operations

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s while the 4th Group has responsibility for the 1st, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th battalions. On 21 June 2010, an announcement was made that the military intends to rename psychological operations, or PSYOP, to Military Information Support Operations. The decision, made a few days earlier by

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, United States Special Operations Command and

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General George Casey, was propagated through a memo dated 23 June 2010. By October 2017, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) reverted its decision changing their name back to PSYOP stating, "Psychological operations refers to the name of units, while MISO refers to the function that soldiers in PSYOP units perform".The Army's psychological operations community is getting its name back
Army Times, by Meghann Myers, dated 6 November 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2018 The unit is based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and is a part of the 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne), under the United States Army Special Operations Command. The 4th POG was constituted 7 November 1967 in the

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, 4th Psychological Operations Group. Originally activated 1 December 1967 in

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, it was inactivated 2 October 1971 at Fort Lewis, Washington, and reactivated 13 September 1972 at

Operations

The 4th POG's mission is to degrade hostile morale to persuade the hostile to not carry out operations, as well as influencing global populations to "fight, to surrender, to BELIEVE.” 4th POG is known to dispatch operators around the world to any place SOCOM or the Department of State needs them to deploy to. 4th POG's

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page has posted photos of where their operators have performed around the world, locations include: * Hagia Sophia Mosque,

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* Ludwigsburg Palace, Germany * Palace Tomb,

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Campaign participation credits

Vietnam

*Counteroffensive, Phase III *Tet Counteroffensive *Counteroffensive, Phase IV *Counteroffensive, Phase V *Counteroffensive, Phase VI *Tet 69/Counteroffensive *Summer-Fall 1969 *Winter-Spring 1970 *Sanctuary Counteroffensive *Counteroffensive, Phase VII *Consolidation I

Armed forces expeditions

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Southwest Asia

*Defense of

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; * Liberation and Defense of Kuwait *Southwest Asia Cease-Fire

Organization

4th POG(A) currently consists of a headquarters company and five regional PSYOP battalions (POB). Each battalion is dedicated to a certain region of the world and supports a geographic combatant command on Military Information Support Operations. 1stPOB

1st POB(A) – United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) US Army 1st Psychological Operations Battalion Beret Flash

*Organized 8 November 1950 in the

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, Kansas, as

, 1st

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and Leaflet Group. *Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1951 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st

and Leaflet Group, 8239th Army Unit. *Consolidated 21 February 1955 with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Radio Broadcasting and Leaflet Battalion (constituted 30 November 1954 in the Regular Army) and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Radio Broadcasting and Leaflet Battalion; concurrently reorganized at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. *Reorganized and redesignated 24 June 1960 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Psychological Warfare Battalion. Reorganized and redesignated 20 December 1965 as the 1st Psychological Operations Battalion. *Reorganized and redesignated 16 March 1990 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Psychological Operations Battalion. *Reorganized and redesignated 16 November 1995 as Headquarters, Headquarters and Support

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, 1st Psychological Operations Battalion. 5thPOB

5th POB(A) – United States Pacific Command (USPACOM) US Army 5th Psychological Operations Battalion Beret Flash

*Constituted 3 March 1951 in the Regular Army as the 5th

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and Leaflet Company, Army. *Activated 19 March 1951 at

, Kansas *Reorganized and redesignated 8 June 1953 as the 5th Loudspeaker and Leaflet Company *Reorganized and redesignated 24 June 1961 as the 5th Psychological Warfare Company *Reorganized and redesignated 25 June 1965 as the 5th Psychological Operations Battalion *Inactivated 20 June 1975 in Germany *Redesignated 30 December 1975 as the 5th Psychological Operations Group; concurrently withdrawn from the Regular Army, allotted to the Army Reserve, and activated at

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*Reorganized and redesignated 18 September 1990 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 5th Psychological Operations Group *Inactivated 15 September 1994 at Upper Marlboro, Maryland *Redesignated 18 November 2003 as Headquarters,

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, 5th Psychological Operations Battalion, withdrawn from the Army Reserve, and allotted to the Regular Army (organic elements concurrently constituted) *Battalion activated 16 October 2004 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina 6thPOB

6th POB(A) – United States European Command (EUCOM) US Army 6th Psychological Operations Battalion Beret Flash

*Constituted 20 October 1965 in the

as the 6th Psychological Operations Battalion *Activated 1 November 1965 in

*Inactivated 30 June 1971 in

*Activated 13 September 1972 at

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*Reorganized and redesignated 16 March 1990 as

, 6th Psychological Operations Battalion *Reorganized and redesignated 16 November 1995 as Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Company, 6th Psychological Operations Battalion (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated with personnel from provisional units) 7thPOB

7th POB(A) – United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) US Army 7th MISB Flash

*Constituted 23 December 1943 in the Regular Army as the 3rd Mobile Radio Broadcast

*Activated 29 December 1943 at Camp Ritchie, Maryland *Inactivated 27 April 1946 at

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, France *Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 2010 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 51st Psychological Operations Battalion *Redesignated 16 March 2011 as Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Company, 7th Psychological Operations Battalion (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated with personnel from provisional units) *Activated at

, on 18 October 2011 8thPOB

8th POB(A) – United States Central Command (CENTCOM) US Army 8th MSIB Flash

*Constituted 7 November 1967 in the Regular Army as the 8th Psychological Operations

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*Activated 1 December 1967 in

*Inactivated 27 June 1971 at Fort Lewis, Washington *Activated 13 September 1972 at

*Reorganized and redesignated 16 March 1990 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 8th Psychological Operations Battalion *Reorganized and redesignated 16 November 1995 as Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Company, 8th Psychological Operations Battalion (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated with personnel from provisional units) *In 1997, 8th POB's B Company (with a PACOM

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) was split-off from the 8th POB and designated PACOM Battalion (A); PACOM Bn. later formed the nucleus of 5th PSYOP Battalion when it was reactivated in 2003.

References

External links

4th Military Information Support Group (Airborne) – Official Site
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