8th Special Forces Group
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Active	1963-1972
Country	United States
Branch	U.S. Army
Role	counter-insurgency training for Latin American armies
Garrison/HQ	Fort Gulick

The 8th Special Forces Group was established in 1963 at Fort Gulick, Panama Canal Zone. It was deactivated in 1972. The primary mission of the 8th SFG was counter-insurgency training for the armies of Latin America. The group consisted of companies A and B, a psychological warfare unit, and a military intelligence unit. A Mobile Training Team from the 8th group trained and advised the Bolivian Ranger Battalion that captured and killed Che Guevara in the fall of 1967. Fort Gulick was a U.S. army base in the former Panama Canal Zone located on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal near Fort Sherman. ... The Panama Canal Zone (Spanish: ), was a 553 square mile (1,432 km²) territory inside of Panama, consisting of the Panama Canal and an area generally extending 5 miles (8. ... Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara or el Che, was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, political figure, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. ...