In 1918, The activation of U.S. Army Special Operations Support Command (Airborne) on Nov. 1, 1995 realigned the command and control organizational structure of the following units: 112th Special Operations Signal Battalion (Airborne), 528th Special Operations Support Battalion (Airborne), Material Management Center (Airborne) and five special operations theater support elements. It also concentrates a dedicated, regionally oriented, coordination and liaison base that can provide combat and health services and communications planning to assure support for all Army special operations forces units.

On Nov. 27, 1990, the U.S. Army 1st Special Operations Command was redesignated the U.S. Army Special Forces Command (Airborne). Its mission is to train, validate and prepare Special Forces units to deploy and execute operational requirements for the warfighting commanders-in-chief.

USASFC (A) exercises command and control over five active component Special Forces groups and training oversight for the two Army National groups. The five activeduty groups are the 1st SFG (A) at Fort Lewis, Wash.; 3rd SFG (A) at Fort Bragg; 5th SFG (A) at Fort Campbell, Ky.; 7th SFG (A) at Fort Bragg; and the 10th SFG (A) at Fort Carson, Colo. Additionally, USASFC exercises training oversight of two Army National Guard Special Forces groups. They are the 19th SFG (A) headquartered at Salt Lake City, Utah and the 20th SFG (A) at Birmingham, Ala.