The 3rd Special Forces Group is made up from other SF Groups within the United states Army. The beret flash they were represent the different groups they came from The yellow is from the 1stSFG, The red is from the 7thSFG, The Black is from 5thSFG, And the white represents Special Forces Training Group. There Motto is De Oppresso Liber which means To Free the Oppressed. There main goal is the deal with unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, direct action, counter-insurgency, special reconnaissance, counter-terrorism, information operations, counterproliferation of weapon of mass desctruction, and Security force assistance. They were deactivated after the Vietnam war, but reactivated in 1990 with the Gulf war, and fighting in West Africa, After 9/11 They have heavly been involved within Afghanistan and Central Asia.