The 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne) (or 4th POG)(A) is one of the

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's active military information support operations units along with the

8th Psychological Operations Group The 8th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne) or 8th POG(A) is one of the United States Army's active Psychological Operations units alongside the 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne). The unit was activated August 26, 2011. The activ ...

(Airborne), which was activated 26 August 2011 at Fort Bragg. The 8th Group has responsibility for the 1st, 5th and 9th

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s. The 4th Group has responsibility for the 3rd, 6th, 7th and 8th battalions, with a total of about 800

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s. On 21 June 2010, an announcement was made that the military intends to rename

psychological operations Psychological warfare (PSYWAR), or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations (PsyOp), have been known by many other names or terms, including Military Information Support Operations (MISO), Psy Ops, political warfare, "Hearts and M ...

, or PSYOP, to Military Information Support Operations. The decision, made a few days earlier by Admiral Eric Olson, Commander,

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and

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's Chief of Staff

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George Casey, was propagated through a memo dated 23 June 2010. By October 2017, the

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(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".The Army's psychological operations community is getting its name back
Army Times, by Meghann Myers, dated 6 November 2017, last accessed 4 March 2018 The unit is based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and is a part of the 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne), under the

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. The 4th POG was constituted 7 November 1967 in the

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, 4th Psychological Operations Group. Originally activated 1 December 1967 in

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, it was inactivated 2 October 1971 at Fort Lewis,

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, and reactivated 13 September 1972 at Fort Bragg.

Campaign participation credits

Vietnam

*Counteroffensive, Phase III *Tet Counteroffensive *Counteroffensive, Phase IV *Counteroffensive, Phase V *Counteroffensive, Phase VI *Tet 69/Counteroffensive *Summer-Fall 1969 *Winter-Spring 1970 *Sanctuary Counteroffensive *Counteroffensive, Phase VII *Consolidation I

Armed forces expeditions

* Grenada *

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* Haiti *

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Southwest Asia

*Defense of

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; * Liberation and Defense of Kuwait *Southwest Asia Cease-Fire

Organization

4th POG(A) currently consists of a

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and three regional PSYOP battalions (POB) and one dissemination battalion. The 3rd POB is currently part of 4th POG(A) that supports both 4th POG(A) and 8th POG(A) and provides both with

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, digital-audio-visual and print assets for developing MISO products such as leaflets, posters,

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and

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.Military Information Support Operations Command (Airborne) (Provisional)
/ref> The three regional POBs are regionally oriented and support the regional combatant commands in the planning and production of MISO programs: 3rdPOB

3rd POB(A) - Dissemination US Army 3rd MISB Flash

6th POB(A) – United States European Command (EUCOM) *Constituted 20 October 1965 in the

as the 6th Psychological Operations Battalion *Activated 1 November 1965 in

*Inactivated 30 June 1971 in

*Activated 13 September 1972 at

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*Reorganized and redesignated 16 March 1990 as

, 6th Psychological Operations Battalion *Reorganized and redesignated 16 November 1995 as Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Company, 6th Psychological Operations Battalion (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated with personnel from provisional units) 7thPOB

7th POB(A) – United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) US Army 7th MISB Flash

*Constituted 23 December 1943 in the Regular Army as the 3rd Mobile

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Company *Activated 29 December 1943 at Camp Ritchie, Maryland *Inactivated 27 April 1946 at

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*Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 2010 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 51st Psychological Operations Battalion *Redesignated 16 March 2011 as Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Company, 7th Psychological Operations Battalion (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated with personnel from provisional units) *Activated at

, on 18 October 2011 8thPOB

8th POB(A) – United States Central Command (CENTCOM) US Army 8th MSIB Flash

*Constituted 7 November 1967 in the Regular Army as the 8th

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*Activated 1 December 1967 in

*Inactivated 27 June 1971 at Fort Lewis,

*Activated 13 September 1972 at

*Reorganized and redesignated 16 March 1990 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 8th Psychological Operations Battalion *Reorganized and redesignated 16 November 1995 as Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Company, 8th Psychological Operations Battalion (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated with personnel from provisional units) *In 1997, 8th POB's B Company (with a PACOM

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) was split-off from the 8th POB and designated PACOM Battalion (A); PACOM Bn. later formed the nucleus of 5th PSYOP Battalion when it was reactivated in 2003.

References

External links

4th Military Information Support Group (Airborne) – Official Site
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