Thermo Patch 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne)

The 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne) shoulder patch, manufactured under license from the U.S. Army.

Very good quality embroidery, suitable for sewing on or ironing.

The 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne) is a division-level special operation forces command within the US Army Special Operations Command. The command was first established in 1989 and reorganized in 2014 grouping together the Army Special Forces (a.k.a. "the green berets"), psychological operations, civil affairs, and support troops into a single organization operating out of its headquarters at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. 

The new command includes all seven Special Forces groups (including the five active duty and two Army National Guard groups), two Psychological Operations groups, a civil affairs brigade, and a sustainment brigade. 

Each Special Forces group is designed to deploy and execute nine doctrinal missions: unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, direct action, counter-insurgency, special reconnaissance, counter-terrorism, information operations, counterproliferation of weapon of mass destruction, and security force assistance via seven geographically focused groups. 

The meaning of the U.S. Army Special Forces shoulder sleeve insignia:

• the arrowhead alludes to the American Indian's basic skills in which Special Forces personnel are trained to a high degree,
• the dagger represents the unconventional nature of Special Forces operations,
• three lightning flashes, their ability to strike rapidly by air, water or land.