Grupo_de_Operaciones_Especiales_(Spain)

Special Operations Groups (Spain)

Special Operations Groups (Spain)

Military unit

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 (Mando de Operaciones Especiales - MOE).

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Units in 1989

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

Notes

  1. [1]
    Fernando Cancio | Madrid Última actualización:22-01-2020 | 10:53 H/Creada:22-01-2020 (2020-01-22). "Boinas verdes 4.0: así será en el futuro la unidad de élite del Ejército de Tierra". La Razón (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-01-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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    Formerly Bandera de Operaciones Especiales de la Legión (Spanish Legion Special Operations Flag), BOEL.


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