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{{Short description|U.S. Army special operations training center}}
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==Overview==
The U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (SWCS) at [[Fort
Approximately 3,100 students are enrolled in SWCS training programs at any given time. SWCS also maintains the Special Forces Warrant Officer Institute and the David K. Thuma [[Non-commissioned officer|Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO)]] [[Enlisted Professional Military Education|Academy]]. While most courses are conducted at Fort
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SWCS offers 41 different courses, including courses for Civil Affairs, Psychological Operations, Special Forces and Cultural Support. Advanced skills courses include [[Special Forces Underwater Operations|combat diver training]] in [[Key West]], Florida, sniper training at [[Fort
Regional studies and education constitutes Phase II of the three branches' qualification courses. This phase lasts 18 to 24 weeks depending on the language category (CAT) assigned them. Students who are assigned to CAT I or II languages such as Spanish, French and Indonesian spend 18 weeks of study with the end goal being to achieve a score of 2 on the Interagency Language Roundtable Scale (ILR). Students spend 24 weeks studying CAT III or IV languages such as [[Arabic]], [[Mandarin Chinese]], [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Korean language|Korean]], [[Thai language|Thai]], [[Pashto]], or [[Urdu]] with the end goal being to achieve an [[ILR scale|ILR score]] of III or IV (indicating professional proficiency). All students must pass an Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) before moving to the next phase of their qualification course. The [[Defense Language Institute]] assists with this language education.
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==Commanders==
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*[[Major General]] [[Patrick B. Roberson]], Commander from August 2019<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fayobserver.com/news/20190816/roberson-takes-command-of-fort-braggs-jfk-center-and-school|title=Roberson takes command of Fort Bragg’s JFK center and school, August 16, 2019|website= The Fayetteville Observer|access-date=24 August 2019}}</ref> to August 2022.
*Major General [[Kurt L. Sonntag]], Commander from May 2017<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.soc.mil/swcS/SWmag/archive/SW3003/30-3_JUL_SEP_2017.pdf|title=Special Warfare Magazine: Spotlight, Vol. 30, No. 3, p.05, Jul-Sep 2017|website= United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School|access-date=24 August 2019}}</ref> to August 2019
*Major General James B. Linder, Commander from May 2015<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.soc.mil/SWCS/SWmag/archive/SW2804/October%202015%20Special%20Warfare.pdf|title=Special Warfare Magazine: Linder Takes the Reigns at the Special Warfare Center, Vol. 28, No. 4, p.5, October-December 2015|website= United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School|access-date=20 October 2018}}</ref> to May 2017.
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*Brigadier General [[Joseph Warren Stilwell Jr.]], Commander from 1965<ref name="Hagerman1990">{{cite book|author=Bart Hagerman|title=U.S.A. Airborne: 50th Anniversary, 1940–1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bgv6nas1X4oC&pg=PA448|year=1990|publisher=Turner Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-938021-90-2|pages=448–}}</ref> to 1966.
*Lieutenant General [[William P. Yarborough]], Commander from January 1961 to 1965.
*Brigadier General [[George M. Jones]], Commander from 1958 to January 1961
*Colonel William J. Mullen Jr., Commander from April 1956 to 1958.
*[[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]] [[Edson Raff]], Commander from December 1954<ref>{{cite web|url=https://arsof-history.org/articles/v8n1_psywar_center_pt2_page_2.html|title=Veritas Magazine: The Psywar Center Part II: Creation of the 10th Special Forces Group, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2012|website= U.S. Army Special Operations Command History Office|access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref> to April 1956.
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*Colonel Gordon Singles, Commander from July 1953<ref>{{cite web|url=https://arsof-history.org/articles/v8n1_psywar_center_pt2_page_2.html|title=Veritas Magazine: The Psywar Center Part II: Creation of the 10th Special Forces Group, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2012|website= U.S. Army Special Operations Command History Office|access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref> to July 1954.
*Brigadier General Charles H. Karlstad, Commander from May 1952<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.soc.mil/SWCS/RegimentalHonors/_pdf/po_Karlstad.pdf|title=Distinguished Member Of The Psychological Operations Regiment: Brigadier General Charles Herbert Karlstad, 19 November 2015|website= United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School|access-date=20 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a118758.pdf|author=Paddock, Alfred H. Jr.|title=Army Special Warfare: Its Origins, p.144, National Defense University Press, 1982|website= U.S. Defense Technical Information Center at Fort Belvoir, VA|access-date=20 October 2018}}</ref> to July 1953.
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