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UNSC Army Special Operations Group
Unit information
Type

Special Operations Forces

Government

United Nations Space Command

Branch
  • UNSC Special Operations Command
  • UNSC Army
  • UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence[1]
Part of
  • UNSC Army Special Operations Command
  • UNSC Progressive Warfare Command[1]
  • UNSC Naval Special Operations Command[1]
Role
  • Direct action (DA)
  • Special reconnaissance (SR)
  • Foreign internal defense (FID)
  • Civil-military operations (CMO)
  • Unconventional warfare (UW)
Alternate names
  • UNSC Counterterrorism Activity Warfare Section (CAWS)[1]
  • UNSC Designated Expeditionary Task Group (DELTA)[1]
Organization
Size

Division-level formations

Garrison
Personnel information
Notable members
  • Master Chief Petty Officer August Plummer
  • Major Courtney Archer West
  • Sergeant Randall Ridenour
Historical information
Active
  • Outer Rim Campaign (2570s)
  • Midgard Campaign (2590s)
  • Beyond Veil's Azure Crisis (2590s)
  • Dashan Campaig (2600s)
Engagements
  • Battle of Hekate (2674)
  • Midgard Campaign (25902594)
  • Siege of Earth (2594)
  • Battle of the Redoubt (2595)
  • Dashan Campaign (2600—2504)
Current Status

Active (as of 2604, Galactic Era)

DELTA

An operator of the UNSC Counterterrorism Activity Warfare Section, circa 2570.

"We’ve been authorized to sanction a hinge point individual."
Commander Hayes, prefacing Operation: ICEBREAKER[src]
"Assault leader to all elements. Fire Order Vermillion. Air Assault. Out."
Major Courtney Archer West, during Operation: MORNING THUNDER[src]

The UNSC Army Special Operations Group (ASOG) was a special operations force of the UNSC Army and the UNSC Special Operations Command established in the Galactic Era. It was previously an audacious and controversial special access program operated under the umbrella of the UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence, but after the Beyond Veil's Azure Crisis, it was reformed into a more legitimate and accountable UNSC Army special forces unit in the dawn of the 27th century.

History[]

JUST CAUSE[]

Although the "Army Special Operations Group" is the most modern iteration of the name of this organization, the core framework of SOG has existed for over thirty years since the 2570s.

It was previously a highly controversial special access program operated largely by the UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence. It had its genesis as a special access budget known by the codename of "JUST CAUSE", an ONI program to organize and train advanced special operations forces, presumably to increase UNSC civilian security. Under the shell, however, was a macabre horror, a parody of the name of "JUST CAUSE". Under this program, the UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence trained special forces veterans as covert action operators for ONI, molding them to be professional assassins in employ by "The Office".

Eventually, JUST CAUSE became enormously successful, becoming a premier special activities unit of the Office of Naval Intelligence, later earning internal autonomy as an independent paramilitary hunter-killer program. Its epidemic success would encourage ONI to adopt its leading covert action program as a fully-recognized special operations unit in the UNSC military under the order of the Director of Special Intelligence.

UNSC Special Operations Command[]

During the Vector Era, JUST CAUSE would come under the joint authority of the UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence and the UNSC Special Operations Command, and would be renamed the UNSC Counterterrorism Activity Warfare Section (CAWS), commonly known as "Counterterrorism Activity'". The pronouncation of its abbreviated name ("CAWS"), pronounced "kawz" (kɔz), is a play on the phonetics of [[JUST CAUSE]], its predecessor program. During SOG's twenty-year tenure as the Counterterrorism Activity Warfare Section, little would be known about its organization and core operating tasks, with the Office of Naval Intelligence paying a particular interest in protecting the privacy of CAWS's operations. CAWS was known to be one of the extremely few field units granted complete operational jurisdiction and unrestricted area of operations (AOR), making it unique in its striking potential and liberty.

Later, during the Beyond Veil's Azure Crisis, CAWS would be known as the UNSC Designated Expeditionary Task Group (DELTA), under Alice in Wonderland, before finally renamed as the UNSC Army Special Operations Group (SOG) several years later.

Operational History[]

Vector Era[]

Delta Team was a tactical unit attached to CAWS, although it was later reassigned to the UNSC Department of Strategic Intelligence. CAWS Team DELTA would participate extensively in the UNSC Special Operations Command counterinsurgency campaign in the Outer Rim in 2570, operating off of the UNSC Meridian Rays with other UNSCSOCOM operators, such as Chief Petty Officer Kimberly Ivy Blackburn in the extended Outer Rim campaign.

Afterwards, in the enduring post-War peace, CAWS would find significantly different usages. No longer was the unit needed for dedicated counterterrorism operations. The unit's already ambiguous history would take a turn for the worst as the unit was commissioned exclusively as a UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence unit, and its entire organization and core objectives would become retooled. All its existing members would become either officers or senior enlisted personnel in other elite UNSCSOCOM branches.

Renowned retired special forces operator Master Chief Petty Officer August Plummer, the husband of Kimberly Ivy Blackburn, was a former CAWS operator.

By the 2580s, ONI would "retire" the Counterterrorism Activity Warfare Section, instead resurrecting the unit under the guidance of the UNSC Department of Strategic Intelligence and Alice in Wonderland.

Alice in Wonderland[]

CAWS would later be relabeled as the UNSC Designated Expeditionary Task Group (DELTA) in homage of the American 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta ("Delta Force") and for the prior CAWS Delta Team. Under the operating name of DELTA, it would be resized to the platoon-scale, and would become extremely heavily involved with the classified UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence special-access program only known as "Alice in Wonderland".

Between the 2580s and the 2590s, Delta would become even more shrouded in secrecy than its predecessors, JUST CAUSE and CAWS, becoming intricately involved with Alice in Wonderland. A small Delta team would be deployed to Midgard in 2594 as part of UNSCSOCOM's Midgard Campaign.

Delta's core operating tasks, organization, and leadership would be unknown under Alice in Wonderland.

Galactic Era[]

After 2595 and the disastrous events of the Beyond Veil's Azure Crisis, which would nearly extinguish humanity and would fatally cripple the UNSC and its armed forces, a major UNSC review board was constituted to provide military leadership control over the UNSC special forces, which had been accused of substantial humanitarian atrocities, as well as highly dubious operations. The Designated Expeditionary Task Group, in fact, was the most-cited unit responsible of controversial operating methods, and the entire unit would be disbanded, and highly-ranking ONI officers would be charged and court-martialed for Delta's operations prior to and during Beyond Veil's Azure.

The Designated Expeditionary Task Group and Alice in Wonderland would both be permanently disbanded.

Instead, Delta would be resurrected as a legitimate military special forces (SF) unit under the command of the UNSC Army Special Operations Command (ARSOC), and would be renamed the UNSC Army Special Operations Group, the Army's elite unconventional warfare (UW) and counterterrorism (CT) unit. Although many would regard the Army Special Operations Group inferior in counterterrorism activities to the elite Naval Special Warfare units, ASOG was a larger and more versatile organization, superior to the Army's Rangers.

Army Special Operations Group units would be deployed to Dashan during the Galactic Era, employed in advanced counterterrorism activities with the multiservice Joint Task Force 11.

Organization[]

  • 1st Army Special Operations Brigade: Responsible for Army Special Operations Group operations in the Core Worlds and Inner Colonies, in systems such as Sol ("Earth"), Alpha Centauri ("Thebes"), Epsilon Eriandi ("Reach"), and Procyon ("Arcadia"). Under the spatial jurisdictions of UNSC Special Operations Command Centauri and UNSC Special Operations Command Procyon. Responsible for advanced counterterrorism activities on core UNSC colony worlds, such as hostage rescue and bomb threats. Permanently headquartered on Alpha Centauri.
Controlled Systems: Sol (Earth), Alpha Centauri (Thebes), Epsilon Eriandi (Reach), Procyon (Arcadia)
Headquarters: Thebes, Alpha Centauri System and Cambridge, Sol System
Current Deployment: UNSC Core Worlds (2596-2604)
Regional High Command: UNSC Special Operations Command Centauri and UNSC Special Operations Command Procyon
  • 2nd Army Special Operations Brigade: Responsible for Army Special Operations Group operations in the Mid Rim, in systems such as 47 Ursae Majoris ("Asphodel Meadows") and Epsilon Indi ("Harvest"). Under the spatial jurisdictions of UNSC Special Operations Command Indi and UNSC Special Operations Command Ceti. Permanently headquartered at the Asphodel Meadows Naval Special Warfare Center in 47 Ursae Majoris.
Controlled Systems: 47 Ursae Majoris (Asphodel Meadows), Alpha Corvi (Bifröst), and Epsilon Indi (Harvest)
Headquarters: Asphodel Meadows Naval Special Warfare Center, 47 Ursae Majoris System
Current Deployment: UNSC Middle Rim (2596-2604) and Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force Dashan (2599-2604)
Regional High Command: UNSC Special Operations Command Indi and UNSC Special Operations Command Ceti
  • 3rd Army Special Operations Brigade
Controlled Systems: Carinae-2172 (Beryl), Alpha Draconis (Midgard), Nu Centauri (Atreus), MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb (Dashan), and Carinae-312 (Relic)
Headquarters: Sagittarius Regional Special Warfare Center, Carinae-2172 System
Current Deployment: Sagittarius Arm (2596-2604) and Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force Dashan (2599-2604)
Regional High Command: UNSC Special Operations Command Sagittarius
  • 4th Army Special Operations Brigade
Controlled Systems: Alpha Orionis (Hekate) and 13 Capricorni (Absolution Court)
Headquarters:
Current Deployment:
Regional High Command: UNSC Special Operations Command Perseus
  • 5th Army Special Operations Brigade: Specialized battalion responsible for fielding indirect action capabilities, such as electronic warfare (EW), psychological operations (PSYOPS), and civil-military operations (CMO), in support of other Army Special Operations Brigades.
Controlled Systems:
Headquarters: Asphodel Meadows Naval Special Warfare Center, 47 Ursae Majoris System
Current Deployment:
Regional High Command: UNSC Special Operations Strategic Command
  • 6th Army Special Operations Brigade
Controlled Systems: MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb (Dashan)
Headquarters: Forward Operations Base Hotel California, MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb
Current Deployment: Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force Dashan (2599-2604)
Regional High Command: UNSC Special Operations Command Sagittarius and UNSC Progressive Warfare Command

Known Personnel[]

Vector Era (2570)[]

"UNSC Counterterrorism Activity Warfare Section" (Office of Naval Intelligence/Special Operations Command)

  • Commander Hayes (CMDR, O-5): Troop commander
  • Lieutenant "Delta-One" (LT, O-3): Team commander
  • Chief Petty Officer "Delta-Two" (CPO, E-7)
  • Petty Officer 2nd Class "Delta-Three" (PO2, E-5)
  • Petty Officer 2nd Class "Delta-Four" (PO2, E-5)

Galactic Era (2604)[]

Archer

Major Courtney Archer West, an ex-ONI intelligence officer, would be an Army Special Operations Group company commander during the Dashan Campaign.

"UNSC Army Special Operations Group" (Army/Special Operations Command)

Delta Fourteen

  • Major Courtney Archer West (MAJ, O-4): Company commander
  • Master Sergeant Blake Robinson (MSG, E-8): Noncommissioned officer in charge (NCOIC)
  • Sergeant First Class Gordon Hedges (SFC, E-7): Rifleman
  • Staff Sergeant Alexander T. Grant (SSG, E-6): Designated sharpshooter
  • Sergeant Pratik Shah (SGT, E-5): Communications specialist
  • Sergeant Randall Ridenour (SGT, E-5): Corpsman

Hellcat One

  • Staff Sergeant Peter Lancaster (SSG, E-6): Designated sharpshooter
  • Sergeant Bethany Sullvan (SGT, E-5): Designated sharpshooter

References[]

Footnotes[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Formerly, as of 2570-2795.

Behind the Scenes[]


UNSC Special Operations Command
Divisions UNSC Army Forward Reconnaissance (FORCON/FARSIGHT) · UNSC Army Special Operations Group · UNSC Counterforce Task Force (CTF) · UNSC Marine Force Reconnaissance (FORCE RECON) · UNSC Marine Reconnaissance (UNSCMARCON) · UNSC Marine Orbital Incursion Group (MARORBGRU) · UNSC Naval Special Warfare (NAVSPECWAR) · UNSC Ranger Corps · UNSC Reconnaissance Aviation Expeditionary Force (RAVEN) · UNSC Special Warfare Group SPARTAN (SPECWAR SPARTAN)
Commands UNSCSOCCEN (1st) · UNSCSOCCET (2nd) · UNSCSOCPRO (3rd) · UNSCSOCIND (4th) · UNSCSOCSAG (5th) · UNSCSOCPER (6th) · SOCSTRATCOM (10th) · PROGWARDIV (15th)
Formations 1st Force Reconnaissance Company · 10th Shock Troops Battalion · 105th ODST Division · 2nd Marine Reconnaissance Battalion · 2nd Orbital Special Warfare Battalion (OSW/B2) · 8th Irish Ranger Regiment · 38th Ranger Expeditionary Force (38 REDF) · 3-Gamma (3γ) · 5th Special Operations Wing (5th SOW) · Janelia Blue · Myrmidon Detachment · NAVSPECWAR Six · Task Force 51 (TF51) · UNSC Hostage Activity Group (HAG)
Detachments Alpha Company (101BN/18U) · 38/1 Ranger Battalion · 38/6 Ranger Battalion · Black Team · Delta Squadron · Delta Troop
Operators Alexis Lovejoy · Alexander Harris · Boltzmann · Chandler Danial · Delta-One · Delta-One · Delta-Three (August Plummer) · Delta-Four · Lee Francis Winslow · Hank J Wimbleton IV · Kimberly Ivy Blackburn · SPARTAN-G219 (Katie)
Vehicles D72-TC King Penguin · AV-99 Foray Close Assault Gunship
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