GHQ 1st Raider Company (Provisional)/8227th Army Unit
Unit 4 21st Troop Carrier Squadron (TCS), 5th AF/Special Air Missions (SAM) Detachment, 21st Troop Carrier Squadron (TCS), 5th AF
United Nations Partisan Infantry Korea (UNPIK)
BAKER Section
Partisan Airborne Infantry Regiment (PAIR)
US Navy Special Operations Group, Korea
Vietnam War
46th Special Forces Company
Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP)
MIKE Force
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group(MACV-SOG)
Phoenix Program
Project 404/Palace Dog
Project "Leaping Lena" (Vietnam War)
Project DELTA
Project GAMMA
Project Sigma and Project Omega
Raven Forward Air Controllers
Tiger Force
US Navy Boat Support Units (BSU)
Other
1st Battalion, 245th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne)
5th Force Reconnaissance Company
6th Special Forces Group
8th Special Forces Group
11th Special Forces Group
12th Special Forces Group
55th Special Operations Squadron
129th Air Commando Group
129th Special Operations Aviation Company (SOAC)
437th Combat Control Squadron
617th Special Operations Aviation Detachment
745th Special Operations Squadron
1730th Pararescue Squadron
Army Aviation Support Element (AASE), US Special Operations Command
Blue Light
Detachment A (DET A, 39th SFOD)
HAL-3 "Sea Wolves"
HAL-4 "Red Wolves"
HAL-5 "Blue Hawks"
Marine Corps Special Operations Command Detachment One (MCSOCOM-Det 1) (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
Red Cell
SEASPRAY
Special Forces Groups Aviation Detachments
Special Warfare Aviation Detachments (SWAD)
22d Aviation Detachment (Special Forces)
23d SWAD (Surveillance)
281st Aviation Company (Assault Helicopter)(Airmobile Light)
Special Boat Unit 11 (SBU 11)
Special Boat Unit 13 (SBU 13)
Special Boat Unit 24 (SBU 24)
Special Boat Unit 26 (SBU 26)
Special Operations Reconnaissance
Task Force 5 (forerunner of Task Force 11)
Task Force 11 (Operation Enduring Freedom)
Task Force 20 and Task Force 121 (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
Task Force 98
Task Force 157 (Covert USN Intelligence unit)
Task Force Bayonet (Operation Just Cause)
Task Force Ranger (Operation Gothic Serpent)
Underwater Demolitions Teams (UDT)
US Air Force Special Operations Weather Teams (SOWT)
US Army Special Operations Agency
US Army Special Operations Division
USAF Special Operations Combat Control Team (SOCCT)
US Coast Guard Drug Interdiction Assist Team (DIAT)
Yellow Fruit
Naval Interdiction Forces ((Rose Units))
Republic of Vietnam
South Vietnamese Rangers At its peak there were 22 ARVN Ranger Battalions organized in 10 Groups.
1st Ranger Group - Da Nang (I Corps/CTZ)
2nd Ranger Group - Pleiku (II Corps/CTZ)
3rd Ranger Group - Biên Hòa (III Corps/CTZ)
4th Ranger Group - Chi Long (initially in the 44 Tactical Zone and later the IV Corps)
5th Ranger Group - Biên Hòa (III Corps/CTZ)
6th Ranger Group - Biên Hòa (III Corps/CTZ)
7th Ranger Group - Saigon, attached to Airborne Division
8th Ranger Group - Formed in 1974-75
9th Ranger Group - Formed in 1974-75
81st Ranger Group (Airborne) - Biên Hòa
Additionally, during the Vietnamization of the CIDG and MIKE Forces, former CIDG units were namely given Ranger status and organized into groups mostly of 3 battalions each, but they were largely local forces without any special forces capabilities.
21st Ranger Group
22nd Ranger Group
23rd Ranger Group
24th Ranger Group
25th Ranger Group
31st Ranger Group
32nd Ranger Group
33rd Ranger Group
41st Ranger Border Defense Group - Chi Long HQ
42nd Ranger Border Defense Group - Chi Long HQ
South Vietnamese Special Forces (LLDB), later reformed as South Vietnamese Special Mission Service