Special Operations Forces Grouping (Argentina)

The Special Operations Forces Grouping (Spanish: Agrupación de Fuerzas de Operaciones Especiales, AFOE) is the unified combatant command charged with overseeing the various special warfare operations component commands of the Argentine Army (EA).

Created 6 December 2005 as the first operational element of the Argentine Army Project 2025.

The service is mainly composite of air assault infantry, airborne forces, commandos, special operations forces, and light helicopters; also artillery, engineers, air transport, and communications companies are constantly ready to assist and support the group.

According to the Argentine Army website (translated): The FDR will be organized, equipped and instructed with organic means of the Army to operate to requirement, in immediate form in any zone of the country, in order to provide to the high conduction of the Force an operational, efficient and fast instrument to act in situations that they require of the immediate use of the force.

It will be instructed in the execution of basic tactical operations and complementary, for which it is properly equipped.