Special_Operations_Command_(Spain)

Special Operations Command (Spain)

Special Operations Command (Spain)

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The Special Operations Command (Spanish: Mando de Operaciones Especiales) is the command charged with overseeing the various Special Operations Groups of the Spanish Army.

Coat of arms of the Special Operations Command.
Guidon of the Special Operations Force Command.
Barracks used by the Special Operations Command for high altitude training in Sierra Nevada.

It is based in Alicante, Alférez Rojas Navarrete barracks.

It was created in 1997, following other NATO armies organization. In the 1980s the Spanish Army had created six Special Operation Groups and also had a Special Operations group in the Spanish Legion, the Bandera de Operaciones Especiales de la Legión.

Subordinate operating units are Grupos de Operaciones Especiales Valencia III, Tercio del Ampurdán IV, and Bandera de Operaciones Especiales "C. L. Maderal Oleaga" XIX de la Legión.

Organization

The three Special Operations Groups are subordinated:

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There are two Special Operations Command auxiliary units:

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Notes

  1. [1]
    Formerly Bandera de Operaciones Especiales de la Legión (Spanish Legion Special Operations Flag), BOEL.
  2. [2]
    "UNIDADES/Alicante/Mando de Operaciones Especiales" [UNITS/Alicante/Special Operations Command] (in Spanish). Spanish Defense. Retrieved 10 October 2013.

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