Talk:Southern European Task Force

Military history: European / Italian / North America / United States

This redirect is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.Military historyWikipedia:WikiProject Military historyTemplate:WikiProject Military historymilitary history articles

Associated task forces:
/
	European military history task force
	Italian military history task force (c. 500–present)
	North American military history task force
	United States military history task force

Proposed move to US Army Africa

Favor Since it has already been well cited in the article, by myself, that the SETAF has been disbanded, and reorganized as US Army Africa, the article name and information should change to reflect its current operational status.--207.114.206.48 (talk) 02:36, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator noteSince there was no objection, I've moved it.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 05:35, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The page name “US Army Africa” should be changed back to “Southern European Task Force.” Although SETAF has a new mission, its name has not yet changed. The two references cited (news articles announcing SETAF’s new mission) are ambiguous regarding the name change, so I checked SETAF’s web site and saw that SETAF news articles are variously using “SETAF” and “SETAF-US Army Africa.” I then contacted the SETAF Public Affairs Office (PAO) directly and received this response by e-mail on 20 Jan, confirmed by telephone 22 Jan with the SETAF Public Affairs Officer:

“Our name is still SETAF. Our command has added the U.S. Army Africa to clarify our new mission because there is a lot of confusion about us keeping the SETAF name. DA [Department of the Army] has not decided what our new name will be, and we expect to be SETAF for at least another year.”

--Matt R. (talk) 23:09, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

and on 23 Jan received this from the SETAF PAO:

As far as the official name, it is still "United States Army Southern European Task Force". And your statement is correct: "the terms "U.S. Army Africa" and "SETAF-U.S. Army Africa" are sometimes used just for clarity, depending on the audience, to convey SETAF's new role or mission." Although I would like to say the name "U.S. Army Africa" is now used MORE than "sometimes". As I have discussed with you, within our PAO shop, we are pushing "SETAF-U.S. Army Africa" to capture our audiences (Italians know SETAF, U.S. audiences have to know our new role in Africa).

--Matt R. (talk) 21:33, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

New Shoulder Sleeve Insignia

The new SSI for US Army Africa can be found at this website.[1] --207.114.206.48 (talk) 16:33, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That page does not show the shoulder sleeve insignia (SSI) worn by Soldiers assigned to SETAF (Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy). Those Soldiers wear the SETAF patch. To quote from a 21 Jan email from SETAF PAO, "That patch is for people assigned to AFRICOM directly - probably referring to U.S. Army personnel assigned to AFRICOM headquarters." -- Matt R. (talk) 23:24, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]