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. Johnson handed over command of the group and its 2,400 troopers to Col. John D. Bishop on Tuesday, a information launch said.
A standard change of command ceremony was not held “resulting from operational necessities,” a information launch said.
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 accordance with the group’s web site, its troopers’ missions are unconventional warfare, overseas inside protection, particular reconnaissance, direct motion, combating terrorism and knowledge operations.
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“These missions make Special Forces distinctive within the U.S. navy as a result of they’re deployed all through the three phases of operational continuum — peacetime, battle and battle,” 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 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 Workers Sgt. Robby Miller, in keeping 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 at all times fast to volunteer and by no means thought it must be some other method,” Bishop stated about Miller throughout a 2008 memorial ceremony. “On quite a few events when the detachment was confronted with a troublesome job, Robby would simply arise and say, ‘I obtained this one; I am going to do it. Ship me.”
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