Sep 25, 2023 · Exactly. It’s a matter of legal authority within the US, as a matter of accountability. Congress has to authorize most every military deployment, they do not have to authorize every CIA SAC deployment. Title 10 and 50 has much more to do with keeping United Stated leadership accountable than the operators of the SAC or US military.

Mike Spann was a marine corps FA officer prior to joining the SAC. However, I think it’s probably gotten more competitive in the post 9/11 world, I remember listening to a podcast with a Green Beret and he was rejected for a paramilitary officer position in favor for a case officer position. You might as well apply though!

The SAC/SOG is considered the most secretive special operations force within the United States, and often recruit from Tier 1 SMUs e.g. "Delta Force"/CAG, SEAL Team 6. Because of the extremely clandestine nature of their work, the names of SAC operatives often remain secret even in death on the CIA's Memorial Wall, which honors employees who ...

SAC is a combat covert action unit. SOF is a heavy hitting combat scapel for the U.S. Government. SWAT deals with civilian matters beat cops are not equipped for.

Dec 13, 2023 · The selection process for the CIA's Special Activities Division (SAD) is highly secretive and not much information is publicly available. They are often referred to as "Tier 1" special operators, although this term is not officially used by …

Nov 15, 2019 · While the other gentlemen is correct about SAC being the go to Agency asset on Direct Action, the large portion of 2010 onward saw a sort of rebranding at the agency. Now normally the Agency would recruit from Tier 1, however after 2010 they started sort of "leasing" teams from the military in an contractor type role.

Mar 26, 2022 · CIA SAC is just one part of CIA. The SMUs support the DOD mission in war time, meaning they will not go and do missions in a country we do not have permission to be in (most of the time.) Think Syria, Africa, Iraq. CIA SAC support the HUMINT Mission of the CIA, and have direct access to the president without bureaucracy.

Jun 8, 2021 · Plenty of non-Special Operations Forces(meaning all branches of USSOCOM and JSOC) that have made it into SAC. I believe pre-GWOT most of SAC was former Marines(way before MARSOC) and Special Forces Group Green Berets. I don’t think they go unit-to-unit recruiting or holding recruitment seminars at bases the same way CAG does.

Mar 26, 2022 · (Edit: that would be 3.5 awesome CIA careers. Each of these things is a career already. I guess an "average" paramilitary sort like we look at around here would be ~2 of these) Korea with Airborne, Vietnam with SF and MACVSOG, Cold War 80s CIA stuff, 90s post-Soviet Union CIA stuff, 21st century GWOT stuff.

May 5, 2022 · First Causality & Suprise, Kill, Vanish are both books about CIA Special Activities Division (now known as SAC) Some crazy stories in there Reply reply More replies More replies