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7th SFG Stemmed the Tide, Guaranteed the Peace in El Salvador

By Steve Balestrieri | January 21, 2019 Army, Coalition SOF, Heroes of U.S. Special Operations, History, Opinion, SOF, SpecOps, US SOCOM

The era of the 1980s thru the mid-1990s was a great time to be a member of the U.S Army’s 7th Special Forces Group, 7th SFG(A). The unit barely escaped the ax during the post-Vietnam drawdown and survived the malaise during the Carter years, where Special Operations and specifically Special Forces was a four-letter word. More »