Editing Special Forces Tab (section)

{{Infobox military award
|name=Special Forces Tab
|image=[[File:SpecialForcesTabMetal.jpg|110px|Special Forces Tab]][[File:Special Forces Tab Cloth.jpg|300px]][[File:Special Forces Tab - OCP.png|300px]]
|caption= '''1st:''' Miniature metallic badge variant<br>'''2nd:''' [[Army Service Uniform]] variant<br>'''3rd:''' [[Army Combat Uniform]] variant
|presenter=[[United States Army]]
|type=Tab
|eligibility=
|awarded_for=Graduation from the Special Forces Qualification Course
|status=Currently awarded
|established=1983
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|higher=None
|lower=[[Ranger Tab]]<ref name="AR600-8-22">{{Cite web |date=5 March 2019 |title=Army Regulation 600-8-22 Military Awards |url=https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN18147_R600_8_22_admin2_FINAL.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220512125349/https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN18147_R600_8_22_admin2_FINAL.pdf |archive-date=12 May 2022 |publisher=[[United States Department of the Army|Department of the Army]]}}</ref>
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The '''Special Forces Tab''' is a service school qualification [[Tabs_of_the_United_States_Army|tab]] of the [[United States Army]], awarded to any soldier completing the [[Special Forces Qualification Course]]<ref name="AR600-8-22" /> at the U.S. Army [[John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School]], [[Fort Bragg|Fort Bragg, North Carolina]]. Soldiers who are awarded the Special Forces Tab are authorized to wear it, as well as the [[green beret]] for the remainder of their military careers, even when not serving in a [[United States Army Special Forces|Special Forces]] command.<ref name="AR600-8-22" /><ref name="DA PAM 670-1">{{Cite web |date=25 May 2017 |title=Guide to the Wear and Appearance of Army Uniforms and Insignia Pamphlet 670–1 |url=https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN1575_DAPam670-1_Web_FINAL.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911212154/https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN1575_DAPam670-1_Web_FINAL.pdf |archive-date=11 September 2017 |access-date=2022-08-28 |publisher=[[United States Department of the Army|Department of the Army]]}}</ref>

Because it is longer than the other qualification tabs, it is called the "long tab". Personnel who have earned it are nicknamed "long tabbers".