Pre 1980 ish Special Forces were an additional skill identifier added to an Infantry MOS, i.e. 11B3? I don't remember if it was S or G, i.e. 11B3G. He would have been an Infantry Officer Special Forces qualified and serving in a Special Forces Unit. For the obituary, I would probably put Infantry Officer in the US Army Special Forces (Green Berets).
Somewhere around 1980 Special Forces became their own MOS, 18 instead of 11. That is the Enlisted MOS number, I don't recall the Officer's Specialty Number but it is the same principle.
Those early guys(pre Viet Nam) had some tales of their training, French Foreign Legionnaires training them out at Camp Irwin or Fort Ord. I met one of the first ones one time and he told me that President Kennedy came to Camp Irwin or Ord (my memory) shortly after they were formed and told them there would never be another Bay of Pigs! I buried one of those guys last year or the year before.
Last edited by sbrmike; 01/26/20. Reason: clarification
