NSW also provides maritime specific special operations to meet US Navy fleet-specific requirements. NSW forces focus on the conduct of the following five principal mission areas of special operations:Īdditionally, NSW forces are involved in collateral activities such as Security Assistance, Anti-Terrorism, Counterdrug, Personnel Recovery and Special Activities. Naval Special Warfare (NSW), provides an effective means to apply counterforce in conjunction with national policy and objectives in peacetime and across the spectrum of hostilities from peacetime operations to limited war to general war. Commander, Naval Special Warfare Command is a Navy Flag Officer, a Rear Admiral. COMNAVSPECWARCOM exercises operational control of all United States-based Naval Special Warfare Command training, operational control of all United States-based Naval Special Warfare forces and responsibility for the training, equipping, supporting, and providing trained and ready forces to the combatant commanders. The mission of Commander, Naval Special Warfare Command (COMNAVSPECWARCOM) is to prepare Naval Special Warfare forces to carry out assigned missions and to develop maritime special operations strategy, doctrine, and tactics. Naval Special Warfare Command was commissioned on 16 April 1987 at the Naval Amphibiousīase in Coronado, California, and is the Naval component to the United States Special Operations Command (see Figure 4-1). NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE COMMAND (NAVSPECWARCOM) SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES Reference Manual
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