Special Operations Groups (Spain)

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Grupos de Operaciones Especiales

Emblem

Active| 1977–present
Country|  Spain
Branch| land forces
Type| special forces
Size| Approx. 900 (2020)[1]
Nickname(s)| Boinas Verdes (Green Berets)

Military unit

The Special Operations Groups (Spanish: Grupos de Operaciones Especiales, GOE) are the special operations forces of the Spanish Army.

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

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The three Special Operations Groups are subordinated to the Special Operations Command (Mando de Operaciones Especiales \- MOE).

Insignia | Group

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| 2nd Special Operations Group "Granada"
(Grupo de Operaciones Especiales "Granada" II)
disbanded in July 2020 to create the MOE Logistics Unit (Unidad Logística MOE)
| 3rd Special Operations Group "Valencia"
(Grupo de Operaciones Especiales "Valencia" III)
| 4th Special Operations Group "Tercio del Ampurdán"
(Grupo de Operaciones Especiales "Tercio del Ampurdán" IV)
| 19th Special Operations Group "Maderal Oleaga"
(Grupo de Operaciones Especiales "Maderal Oleaga" XIX)[2]

## Units in 1989

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

* 1st Special Operations Group "Ordenes Militares" (in Madrid)
* 2nd Special Operations Group "Santa Fé" (in Granada)
* 3rd Special Operations Group "Valencia" (in Alicante)
* 4th Special Operations Group "Almogávares" (in Barcelona)
* 5th Special Operations Group "San Marcial" (in Burgos)
* 6th Special Operations Group "La Victoria" (in A Coruña)
* 7th Special Operations Company (in Palma de Mallorca)
* 81st Special Operations Company (in Tenerife)
* 82nd Special Operations Company (in Las Palmas)

## Notes

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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)
2. ^ Formerly Bandera de Operaciones Especiales de la Legión (Spanish Legion Special Operations Flag), BOEL.

## External links

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* Mando de Operaciones Especiales (official site)

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