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Dog tag shaped, chrome colored coin, 1-1/4 inches wide x 2-1/2 inches high.

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1st SFG - 1st Bn stationed in Okinawa, the 2nd and 3rd Bns headquartered at Ft Lewis, Washington. 1st SFG has responsibility for the Pacific.

U.S. Army Special Forces is divided into five Active Duty and two Army National Guard Special Forces groups. Each Active Duty Special Forces Group has a specific regional focus. The Special Forces soldiers assigned to these groups receive intensive language and cultural training for countries within their regional area of responsibility. Due to the increased need for Special Forces soldiers in the the War on Terror, all Groups, including those of the National Guard (19th and 20th SFGs) have been deployed outside of their areas of operation, particularly to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Special Forces units are tasked with seven primary missions: unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance, direct action, counter-terrorism, counter-proliferation, psychological operations and information operations. Their official motto is De Oppresso Liber (Latin: "To Liberate the Oppressed"), a reference to one of their primary missions to train and assist foreign indigenous forces.