ISAF directs U.S. Forces, Afghanistan (USFOR-A) to develop a Cultural Support Team (CST) concept. 4 25 May U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) issues Tasking Order specifying five key CST tasks: Directly interacting with Afghan women and children Providing medical care for Afghan women and children What is the Cultural Support Program? The Cultural Support Program is an important addition to the Army's special-operations community that allow specially selected and trained volunteers to serve alongside special-operations forces in a unique operating environment.
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WASHINGTON (USASOC News Service, April 29, 2015) -- Three women, who served overseas on cultural support teams in battle alongside U.S. special operators, shared their experiences during a panel. The U.S. Army Special Operations Command created a program in 2010 called the Cultural Support Teams. They were special units of female Army soldiers that were meant to build relationships with Afghan citizens as Green Berets and Army Rangers searched compounds in the rugged desert of Kandahar. Her Cultural Support Team, or "CST," an innocuous name for a groundbreaking concept, was born of a battlefield imperative — gathering intelligence from Afghanistan's women. CSTs weren't only. These enabling units, which evolved from earlier female engagement efforts and ultimately became known as Cultural Support Teams (CSTs), have supported SOF units conducting village stability operations (VSO).
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Cultural support teams are comprised of female Soldiers who serve as enablers supporting Army special-operations combat forces in and around secured objective areas. Their primary task is to engage the female population in an objective area when such contact may be deemed culturally inappropriate if performed by a male servicemember. Cultural Support Teams are comprised of female soldiers who are trained to support U.S. Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) such as Special Forces. Infantry soldiers, Green Berets, Afghan Special Forces and the Cultural Support Team members walking back from a mission on Combat Outpost Herrera in Afghanistan in 2012. Courtesy photo By. Since 2010, female servicemembers had been serving in war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan in the roles of Cultural Support Teams (CST). These unique teams were sent as attachments to Special Operations Units to deal with difficult war situations that culturally required female presence.
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They were part of what would come to be called cultural support teams, or C.S.T.s, a benign name for a groundbreaking concept. Ms. White at Kent State ROTC. Courtesy "What about the combat ban?". So the Cultural Support Teams (CSTs) of 2010 — the first all-female units assigned to special operations forces in Afghanistan and the subject of the new book Ashley's War by Gayle Lemmon.
Who We Are. The core of AllTru is women who served overseas together in the US Army Cultural Support Team (CST) program - which was the first time women were purposefully recruited, assessed, selected, trained, and deployed alongside elite Special Operations units on combat missions in Afghanistan. Our network extends to male role models we. Cultural support teams, women soldiers specially selected and trained to serve alongside special operations forces in direct combat, served on the battlefields of Afghanistan from 2011 until the.
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The young Soldier buried on October 31, 2011, was 1st Lt. Ashley White Strumpf, the first Special Forces cultural support team member killed in combat (Albrecht, 2019; Patria et al., 2015).. All attended the cultural support team school at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to learn about medical civic action programs, searches and seizures, humanitarian assistance and civil-military.
