Nearly every other mission that SF is tasked with will have that as a key component. Special Forces’ bread and butter is working by, with and through local partner forces, building rapport with indigenous people in their assigned areas of operation. The student “A-Teams” will be working with all three resistance factions, the guerillas, who are the armed band of the resistance but the auxiliary and the underground, which are key components to the resistance and are both very valuable tools for the prospective SF soldiers. Robin Sage has been the litmus test for Soldiers striving to earn the Green Beret for more than 40 years. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School during the evaluation and final phase of field training known as Robin Sage in central North Carolina, July 16, 2019. Sage was an OSS operative, the forerunner of today’s Green Berets and CIA.Īn enemy role player fires a weapon at Special Forces candidates from the U.S. Steve McQueen’s character Hilts in the film “The Great Escape” was based on Sage. Robin Sage, derives its name from the town of Robbins, N.C., a central area of operations for the exercise, and former Army Colonel Jerry Sage, a World War II veteran and an Office of Strategic Services, (OSS) officer who taught unconventional-warfare tactics.
Robin Sage has been conducted by Special Forces candidates for about 60 years. It is NOT an exercise to prepare the U.S for civil war as many on social media have tried to foolishly point out. That instability, coupled with working alongside guerrillas who may act (and frequently do) outside of the rules of warfare while engaged in open warfare will put the teams into frequently faced “real-world” situations. Civilians from the region will act as an auxiliary, the underground, and other roles, as their knowledge of the operational area is superb. The prospective Green Berets will be opposed by members of the 82nd Airborne, who in this case are the opposing force (OPFOR). The teams are inserted into the politically unstable country of Pineland. This unique unconventional-warfare or UW, training environment is designed to allow instructors to stress the candidates’ student Operational Detachment Alphas (A-Teams, the standard operating unit of Special Forces), assessing their ability to think on their feet and accomplish their team’s assigned missions.
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