America’s Army: Special Forces players progress toward the goal of wearing the coveted Green Beret by completing progressive individual and collective training missions drawn from the Special Forces Assessment and Selection (SFAS) process. Players must first pass all training missions contained in the existing America’s Army: Operations game series to advance to America’s Army: Special Forces. In the SFAS process, players learn about the unique capabilities of a Special Forces A-Team (Operational Detachment Alpha) including its missions, activities, equipment, skills and responsibilities. Other training includes identification of vehicles, aircraft and weapons to distinguish friend from foe on the battlefield, as well as field training in an escape and evasion exercise. Successful completion of these SFAS courses -- along with an in-game Honor rating of 15 -- satisfies the eligibility prerequisites for players to participate in new multiplayer missions as a Green Beret.
America’s Army: Special Forces players who meet the SFAS prerequisites can play as part of a Special Forces A-Team. Other players can play as a member of indigenious forces operating in concert wth Army Special Forces. In this way, the Game parallels the unique foreign internal defense role of Special Forces in which Green Berets operate alongside indigenous forces in other countries.