FORT BRAGG — Fort Bragg’s third Special Forces Group welcomed a brand new commander because it stated goodbye to its outgoing commander with little fanfare this week.
Col. Jason A. Johnston handed over command of the group and its 2,400 troopers to Col. John D. Bishop on Tuesday, a information launch acknowledged.
A standard change of command ceremony was not held “as a consequence of operational necessities,” a information launch acknowledged.
The third Special Forces Group troopers deploy at any given time to assist operations all through Africa, Europe, the Center East and Central Asia.
In line with the group’s web site, its troopers’ missions are unconventional warfare, overseas inner protection, particular reconnaissance, direct motion, combating terrorism and data operations.
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“These missions make Special Forces distinctive within the U.S. army as a result of they’re deployed all through the three phases of operational continuum — peacetime, battle and warfare,” the web site states.
Johnston, who led the group since June 12, 2020, received’t be leaving the world. His subsequent project is as chief of employees for the U.S. Army Particular Operations Command, which can also be at Fort Bragg.
Bishop isn’t any stranger to the group, beforehand serving as its deputy commander and serving as commander of the first Battalion, third Special Forces Group.
Bishop additionally served as a former detachment commander for Medal of Honor recipient Employees Sgt. Robby Miller, in accordance with an Army article. Miller, 24, was killed Jan. 25, 2008, throughout his second tour to Afghanistan and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
“He was all the time fast to volunteer and by no means thought it needs to be some other manner,” Bishop stated about Miller throughout a 2008 memorial ceremony. “On quite a few events when the detachment was confronted with a tough job, Robby would simply get up and say, ‘I bought this one; I will do it. Ship me.”
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