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So, I'm under the impression that only US Marine forces ever set foot in Sweden, and no regular Army forces are present.

I was reading through the "General Factions" bit and it stood out to me that it still only states the 11th Special Forces Group as members regardless of campaign setting.

But why would the Green Berets be in Sweden, if there are no other Army forces there?

Wouldn't it be some Marine special forces instead? Or Navy SEALs?

The Marines don't have special operations forces (meaning units controlled by SOCOM) in the late '90s. SEALs don't have the same breadth of mission that Special Forces do, namely the integration with foreign forces. SF (even the fictitious 11th Group) would be the element to conduct SF missions in Sweden.

US Army Special Forces are indeed the way to go for all purpose special operations duties. United States Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance (FORECON) is far to small with the whole Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic (FMFLANT) having just two companies of FORECON in the relevant era (2nd and 3rd Force Reconnaissance Company). As for the fictivity of 11th SFG, the United States Army Reserve begs to differ. Although 11th and 12th SFG were deactivated from USAR in September 1994 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/43976149), many members joined the 19th and 20th SFG of the Army National Guard. Reactivating USAR SFG would thus simply mean to federalize both SFG and transfer personnel to different units. That's not difficult to do and just three years after inactivation, most of the personnel would still be available.

As usual, the US forces are transparrent about their doings and there is a social media network for former US army members, which can be filtered by unit served. Pretty interesting stuff: https://army.togetherweserved.com/army/ ... t&ID=29525#!.