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The Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is the Unified Combatant Command charged with overseeing the various Special Operations Commands (SOC or SOCOM) of the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. The command is part of the Department of Defense.

SOCOM conducts several covert and clandestine missions, such as unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance, psychological operations, Civil Affairs, direct action, counter-terrorism and War on Drugs operations. SOCOM's global performance in combat and noncombat areas has proven the value of a mature, culturally attuned, properly equipped, and adaptive Special Operations Force (SOF). Each branch has a Special Operations Command that is unique and capable of running its own operations, but when the different Special Operations Forces need to work together for an operation, SOCOM becomes the joint component command of the operation, instead of a SOC of a specific branch.



Green Operations-
Two kinds of missions are required to be learned by these units; the first one is Green Operations. Green operations are fundamentally pure reconnaissance. This includes gathering information on enemy strength, enemy number, a direct assessment of what kind of weapons and materials the enemy has, providing landscape and geographical layouts, references and landmarks, if not entire maps, and generally providing information on areas so that a plan may be designed as when to attack the area. Green operations can lead to direct target acquisition, and although the Marine them self doesn't engage in direction confrontation, information gathered will be essential to direct action in the future.

Black Operations-
The second kind of mission the marines will be partaking in is called Black Operations. Black operations are operations were direct action is taken by the Marine. This may include engaging the enemy in fire fight, taking out troops through use of sophisticated or long range technology, planting explosives, mines, or other kinds of devices, and to directly engage the enemy in full out war confrontation. As a standard, the Special Forces units must undergo severe and heavy training, as to increase the missions success capability, and to avoid causalities.


SOCOM is merely the command center and organizational unit for Special Operations specific units. While it's apparent that the Special Operations Units are all centered in the same area, the branches they correspond to are not. The SOCOM incorporates the capabilities and specific expertise of all branches in order to achieve a desired goal. While a soldier in Special Operations reports to SOCOM, they report to their individual Branch Leaders first, or of course the leader of the guild.

In addition to this, a member of the SOCOM units is not removed from their original branch. The soldiers of SOCOM still participate in regular Branch duties still preform their specific role in their branch. However, when called upon to enact in Special Forces combat, or when permitted to use their expertise and to exploit their access to high class weaponry in combat, they may do so.

Army - Army Special Forces
Marines - MARSOC
Navy - Jörmungandr
Airforce - Stealth Aircraft

MARSOC

The MARSOC Special Forces unit is essentially a collection of the best Marines; in other words, the best of the best. To even begin attempting to participate in MARSOC, the soldier must first pass two series of tests, if not three, and then report back after the basic control of the military structure has been achieved. After this, the Unit must then pass yet another test, even harder than the Marksmen test, and then must continue to train to become better and stronger than he ever was before. It is quite a feet becoming a MARSOC soldier, but the advantage is gaining the strength to defeat almost any enemy, and the weaponry awarded to achieve such tasks.

An extreme emphasis will also be placed physical confrontations. The Marines as a whole are prone to both long-range and extremely close up fighting, so in order to become a MARSOC soldier, exceptional skills over the human body, hand to hand combat, and other various types of weaponry and fighting styles will be necessary. This of course can be learned, and will be expected and instilled into the member of MARSOC.

Stealth aircraft are aircraft that use stealth technology to interfere with radar detection as well as means other than conventional aircraft by employing a combination of features to reduce visibility in the visual, audio, infrared and radio frequency (RF) spectrum. Well-known modern examples of stealth aircraft include the F-117 Nighthawk (1981-200 cool , the B-2 Spirit "Stealth Bomber", the F-22 Raptor, and the F-35 Lightning II.

While no aircraft is totally invisible to radar, stealth aircraft prevent conventional radar from detecting or tracking the aircraft effectively, reducing the odds of an attack. Stealth is accomplished by using a complex design philosophy to reduce the ability of an opponent's sensors to detect, track, or attack the stealth aircraft. This philosophy also takes into account the heat, sound, and other emissions of the aircraft as these can also be used to locate it.

Stealth is the combination of passive low observable (LO) features and active emitters such as Low Probability of Intercept Radars, radios and laser designators. These are usually combined with active defenses such as Chaff, Flares, and ECM.