Editing Fort Bragg (section)

===Cold War===
[[File:SpecialForces with M4.jpg|thumb|left|An Army Special Forces operator with his customized [[M4 carbine]] prepares to breach an entryway while training in [[Close-quarters combat|close quarters battle]] tactics at Fort Bragg, mid 1999]]
Following World War II, the [[82nd Airborne Division]] was permanently stationed at Fort Bragg, the only large unit there for some time. In July 1951, the [[XVIII Airborne Corps (United States)|XVIII Airborne Corps]] was reactivated at Fort Bragg. Fort Bragg became a center for unconventional warfare, with the creation of the [[John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School|Psychological Warfare Center]] in April 1952, followed by the [[10th Special Forces Group]].<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Fort Bragg, 1950s |url=http://www.bragg.army.mil/history/HistoryPage/History%20of%20Fort%20Bragg/FortBragginthe1950s.htm |publisher=United States Army/ Fort Bragg's online website |access-date=25 January 2007 |archive-date=3 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203033301/http://www.bragg.army.mil/history/HistoryPage/History%20of%20Fort%20Bragg/FortBragginthe1950s.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1961, the [[5th Special Forces Group]] ([[Airborne forces|Airborne]]) was activated at Fort Bragg, with the mission of training counter-insurgency forces in Southeast Asia. Also in 1961, the "Iron Mike" statue, a tribute to all Airborne soldiers, past, present, and future was dedicated. In early 1962 the 326 Army Security Agency Company, de-activated after the [[Korean War]], was reactivated at Fort Bragg under XVIIIth Corps. In August of that year, an operational contingent of that Company was relocated to Homestead AFB Florida, due to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Circa 1963, that contingent was reassigned to the newly created USASA 6th Field Station.<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Fort Bragg, 1960s |url=http://www.bragg.army.mil/history/HistoryPage/History%20of%20Fort%20Bragg/FortBragginthe1960s.htm |publisher=United States Army/ Fort Bragg's online website |access-date=25 January 2007 |archive-date=3 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203182219/http://www.bragg.army.mil/history/HistoryPage/History%20of%20Fort%20Bragg/FortBragginthe1960s.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref> More than 200,000 young men underwent basic combat training here during the period 1966–70. At the peak of the Vietnam War in 1968, Fort Bragg's military population rose to 57,840. In June 1972, the [[1st Sustainment Command (Theater)|1st Corps Support Command]] arrived at Fort Bragg.<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Fort Bragg, 1970s |url=http://www.bragg.army.mil/history/HistoryPage/History%20of%20Fort%20Bragg/FortBragginthe1970s.htm |publisher=United States Army/ Fort Bragg's online website |access-date=25 January 2007 |archive-date=3 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203195850/http://www.bragg.army.mil/history/HistoryPage/History%20of%20Fort%20Bragg/FortBragginthe1970s.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the 1980s, there was a series of deployments of tenant units to the [[Caribbean]], first to [[Invasion of Grenada|Grenada]] in 1983, [[Operation Golden Pheasant|Honduras]] in 1988, and to [[United States invasion of Panama|Panama]] in 1989. The 5th Special Forces Group departed Fort Bragg in the late 1980s.<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Fort Bragg |url=http://www.bragg.army.mil/history/HistoryPage/History%20of%20Fort%20Bragg/FortBragginthe1980s.htm |publisher=United States Army/ Fort Bragg's online website |access-date=25 January 2007 |archive-date=3 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203182229/http://www.bragg.army.mil/history/HistoryPage/History%20of%20Fort%20Bragg/FortBragginthe1980s.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref>