USSF - MACV-SOG - Rare - BEERCAN BADGE - DE OPPRESSO LIBER - Vietnam War - S.178 for Sale

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USSF - MACV-SOG - Rare - BEERCAN BADGE - DE OPPRESSO LIBER - Vietnam War - S.178:
$74.25

De Oppresso Liber - US Special Forces - US Special Operations Group

To Free The Oppressed - Black Ops

USSF - MACV-SOG - Beret Badge - Beercan Badge

Measures - 2.4 x 1.6 inches (6 x 4 cms) - Previously Worn

De Oppresso Liber

De oppressoliber is the motto of the United States Army Special Forces.

In the UnitedStates Army Special Forces, the motto is traditionally believed to mean\"to free from oppression\" or \"to liberate the oppressed\" inLatin.

A correcttranslation of the Latin phrase de oppresso liber would be \"from (being)an oppressed man, (to being) a free one\".

The phrasestems from the exploits of World War II Office of Strategic ServicesJedburgh/Sussex Teams operating behind the lines in France.

Colonel AaronBank, father of United States Army Special Forces, and his teams enabled theFrench Resistance to grow and oppose the occupying German Army.

Theunconventional warfare tactics of Colonel Bank differed from the conventionalwarfare tactics of the rest of the United States Army in that they includedclandestine support for one side of an existing conflict and that they weresubversive to the Axis forces in power.