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Banner illustration for An Institutional Home for ARSOF Robotics:  Establishing a SORD-Training Company for Standards, Training, and Doctrine (Illustration by Special Warfare Journal staff.)An Institutional Home for ARSOF Robotics:
Establishing a SORD-Training Company for Standards, Training, and Doctrine

ARSOF requires a dedicated institutional organization to develop, standardize, and sustain robotics training, doctrine, experimentation, and Special Operations Robotics Detachment (SORD) support. Currently, these functions are scattered across schools, MOS pipelines, ad hoc initiatives, and unit-level efforts. Each group builds SORD capabilities independently with its own standard and its own assumptions, which means the force has many versions of "trained" and no agreed definition of it. Standardization of institutional training is an explicit role at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (SWCS). A SORD Training and Integration Company (SORD-T) within SWCS would provide the missing connective tissue between MOS pipelines, advanced robotics courses, operational detachments, and emerging technology. This article is not focused on any singular course it presents a force-design proposal, focusing on a sustainable, neutral, institutional home for robotics capability generation.
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Jan. 30, 2026

Perspectives: Parachute and Jumper Recovery (and Why the Army Should Care)

Despite over 80 years of Airborne Operations capabilities, the US Army remains without an organic process or mechanism for the recovery of paratroopers or equipment entangled at height in the wood-line. This equates to apparently unknown and unverifiable quantities of FY24 funds expended by USASOC and allegedly around $1,000,000 from within XVIII Airborne Corps for replacement of aerial delivery systems. Despite various investments across USASOC subordinate organizations in the name of “mobility”, vertical applications remain beyond our scope and practice. This article also seeks to challenge the accepted level of risk normalized amongst leaders with regards to currently prescribed and common recovery practices.

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