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Task Force 121
TF121
Active
2003 – 2006?
Country
United States of America
Type
United States Department of Defense special operations task force
Role
Multi-service force for apprehension of high-value targets
Part of
United States Army Delta Force 75th Ranger Regiment 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment United States Navy Naval Special Warfare Development Group (SEAL Team Six) United States Air Force Special Operations Command Pararescue Special Operations Weather Team (SOWT) Aviation Tactics Evaluation Group (AvTEG) Joint Communications Unit Central Intelligence Agency Special Activities Division
Engagements
Firefight and deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein (21 July 2003)
Operation Red Dawn - capture of Saddam Hussein (13 December 2003)
Military unit
Samir, an Iraqi-American military interpreter of Task Force 121, helped find Saddam Hussein by pulling him out of hideaway in December 2003.House of Uday and Qusay Hussein in Mosul, Iraq destroyed by members of Task Force 121 in July 2003
Task Force 121 was a United States Department of Defense special operations task force. TF121 was a multi-service force from Joint Special Operations Command, made up of operators from the U.S. Army's Delta Force, 75th Ranger Regiment, and 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, the U.S. Navy's SEAL Team Six, the CIA's Special Activities Division, U.S. Air Force Combat Controllers, Pararescuemen, Tactical Air Control Party operators, and Special Operations Weather Technicians, the Aviation Tactics Evaluation Group (AvTEG), and the Joint Communications Unit. Two companies of armor from the U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division and later two cavalry troops from 1/1 Cav 1st Armored Division provided armor support.
Task Force 21. It was then redesignated TaskForce121, and later as TaskForce 626, TaskForce 145, and TaskForce 88. Neville notes that he omitted the...
Aviation Regiment (TaskForce Brown) are controlled by JSOC when deployed as part of JSOC Task Forces such as TaskForce121 and TaskForce 145. JSOC has an...
the taskforce, and it has been designated TaskForce 6-26, TaskForce121, and TaskForce 145 with one of its most recently recorded names being Task Force...
American film Red Dawn. The mission was executed by joint operations TaskForce121—an elite and covert joint special operations team, supported by the...
loosely based on the JSOC task forces such as TaskForce121, TaskForce 145, TaskForce 20, TaskForce 6-26, and TaskForce 88. It has been reported that...
10:00 AM on Tuesday July 22, 2003, eight Special Forces soldiers from TaskForce121, accompanied by 40 infantrymen from the 101st Airborne Division, surrounded...
area. Simultaneously, Army Rangers (TaskForce121)— together with elements of the 82d Airborne Division (TaskForce 123)— would secure points at the southern...
designated Task Force 11/Task Force Sword, TaskForce 20, TaskForce121, TaskForce 145 and TaskForce 6-26. Delta Force increased operations in eastern...
Australian Secret Intelligence Service. On December 13, 2003, Members of TaskForce121 conducted a military operation in Ad-Dawr, Iraq which led to the capture...
and his older brother Uday, during a raid on a home in Mosul. After TaskForce121 members were wounded, the 3/327th Infantry surrounded and fired on the...
operations taskforce, operating in the U.S. Central Command area of operations. The TaskForce 11, TaskForce121, TaskForce 6-26 and TaskForce 145 are...
fired upon, the special forces moved back and called for backup. After TaskForce121 members were wounded, the 3/327th Infantry surrounded and fired on the...
element from the Joint Special Operations TaskForce121 composed of U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Berets), Air Force Pararescuemen (PJs), Army Rangers, 160th...
Afghanistan, where the unit was part of the JSOC groupings TaskForce121, TaskForce 6-26 and TaskForce 145. In 2003, members of the unit made two combat jumps...
Special Forces: Team X (2013) Daylight (2014) Phantom Army (2014) Combat: TaskForce121 (2005) World War II Combat: Road to Berlin (2006) World War II Combat:...
operations conducted by Delta Force Joint Special Operations Command TaskForce in the Iraq War TaskForce 6-26 TaskForce121 Operation Neptune Spear Operation...
Airborne Division (TaskForce121) were designated to follow and assume the security at Point Salines once it was seized by TaskForce 123. Task Group 20.5,...
was planned and carried out by the JSOC's Delta Force and SAD/SOG teams (together called TaskForce121). The operation eventually included around 600...
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