Like its predecessor, Detachment A, the 410th Special Forces Detachment was inactivated without ceremony, said Stejskal, who served with both units and later with the CIA before retiring. The public acknowledgement of the unit was something its veterans, like retired Chief Warrant Officer 4 James Stejskal, never fathomed in the years immediately following the Cold War. On Monday at Fort Bragg - 34 years after the 410th Special Forces Detachment formed and nearly 28 years since it was inactivated - members of the secretive unit gathered for the first time to celebrate their accomplishments and honor the unit’s legacy. The unit was the successor to a similar clandestine force, the 39th Special Forces Operational Detachment, often simply known as “Detachment A,” which operated in Berlin from 1956 to 1984. The PSSE-B was actually the 410th Special Forces Detachment, a clandestine group of Green Berets tasked with unconventional warfare and counterterrorism, including a so-called “stay behind” mission in the event of a Soviet invasion. government buildings from South Africa to England. On the outside, the unit was tasked with providing security assessments of U.S. And the resulting “peace dividend” spelled the end for special units like the PSSE-B. The end of the wall, which had divided Berlin both physically and ideologically for decades, was a sign of the end of the Cold War.
Army Physical Security Support Element-Berlin left the city without any fanfare. Not quite a year after the Berlin Wall was opened, soldiers of the U.S.
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