The 7th Psychological Operations Group is a

psychological operations Psychological warfare (PSYWAR), or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations (PsyOp), has been known by many other names or terms, including Military Information Support Operations (MISO), Psy Ops, political warfare, "Hearts and Min ...

(PSYOP) unit of the

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. Organized in 1965, it was a successor to United States Army Broadcasting and Visual Activity, Pacific. It is currently based at

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. Constituted 19 August 1965 in the Regular Army as the 7th Psychological Operations Group. Activated 20 October 1965 on

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. Inactivated 30 June 1974 at

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. Redesignated 30 October 1975 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 7th Psychological Operations Group; concurrently withdrawn from the Regular Army, allotted to the Army Reserve, and activated at the Presidio of

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, California. Reorganized and redesignated 18 September 1990 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 7th Psychological Operations Group. Location changed 15 September 1994 to

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, California. Within the psychological operations battalions, there are a number of tactical psychological operations companies. Such companies are organized in the same manner as other Tactical Psychological Operations Companies Army wide. It consists of a Headquarters Section, a Tactical PSYOP Development Detachment or TPDD and three Tactical PSYOP Detachments or TPD. The TPDD focuses on Product Development and Target Audience Analysis while the TPD usually focuses on product distribution, face to face engagement with a given target audience and loudspeaker operations. :

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7th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne)
at globalsecurity.org

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in Mosul, Iraq

by Jack Lewis, a Tactical PSYOP Team Leader with TPD 1290, 361st PSYOP Company during OIF 3

Psychological Operations 007 Moffett Field