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JOINT SPECIAL OPERATIONS TASK FORCE SOMALIA J43 ENGINEERING DIVISION
Joint Special Operations Task Force-Somalia is assigned to US Special Operations Command Africa, United States Africa Command, headquarted at Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart-Mohringen, Germany.
Joint Special Operations Task Force-Somalia is a temporary joint SOF headquarters established, by the NCA or a Joint Force Commander (JFC), to accomplish a specific mission to control SOF in the Somalia theater of operations and is composed of special operations units from more than one Service.
SOCAFRICA’s primary responsibility is to exercise operational control over theater-assigned or allocated Air Force, Army, Marine, or Navy special operations forces conducting operations, exercises, and theater security cooperation in the USAFRICOM area of responsibility.
SOCAFRICA conducts the full spectrum of SOF missions and closely works with component, interagency and Partner Nations to protect U.S. lives and interests in Africa. The command builds tactical and operational counter-VEO (Violent Extremist Organization) capability in select, key partner nations and assists in developing regional security structures to create stability and combat trans-regional threats. SOCAFRICA activities directly support USAFRICOM’s Theater Strategic Objectives of defeating VEOs, developing persistent access to partner nations through SOF engagement, building partner nation and regional capacity that promotes stability, and mitigating the underlying conditions that permit violent extremism.
The African continent is large and diverse: three-and-a-half times the size of the United States, with 54 countries spanning 11 million square miles. SOCAFRICA is routinely engaged, on average, in more than half of these countries; working with and through our African counterparts.