The decision, made a few days earlier by Admiral Eric Olson, Commander, United States Special Operations Command and Army's Chief of Staff General George Casey, was propagated through a memo dated 23 June 2010.

[4] By October 2017, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) reverted its decision changing their name back to PSYOP stating, "Psychological operations refers to the name of units, while MISO refers to the function that soldiers in PSYOP units perform".

[5] The unit is based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and is a part of the 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne), under the United States Army Special Operations Command.

[6] The 4th POG’s mission is to degrade hostile morale to persuade the hostile to not carry out operations, as well as influencing global populations to “fight, to surrender, to BELIEVE.” 4th POG is known to dispatch operators around the world to any place SOCOM or the Department of State needs them to deploy to.

4th POG’s Instagram page[7] has posted photos of where their operators have performed around the world, locations include: 4th POG(A) currently consists of a headquarters company and five regional PSYOP battalions (POB).