by findingDulcinea Staff. On Aug. 14, 1935, President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, creating one of the most significant government programs in American history.
Army creates Security Force Assistance Brigade and Military Advisor Training Academy at Fort Benning. The Department of the Army announced today the creation of a new type of organization designed to focus on security force assistance, as well as an academy that will train soldiers assigned to these specialized units.
From 1952 until 1987, Army Special Forces (SF) were essentially a subset of the Infantry Branch with most of its officers and many of its enlisted soldiers coming from traditional infantry MOS backgrounds, however, in 1987 owing to a heightened emphasis on special operations, SF was established as a combat arms basic branch.