FORT BRAGG, N.C. — The colors of the 8th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne) were folded and cased on Sept. 29, 2026, ending the unit’s 15 years of service. The ceremony at Fort Bragg’s John F. Kennedy Auditorium marked the official inactivation of the group known as the “Phantom Knights,” the youngest of the Army’s four psychological operations groups.
The group was built for influence work rather than firepower, and it spent its short life being reorganized around that mission. Its end came with the group’s final commander and its senior enlisted leader lowering the guidon in front of the soldiers, veterans and families who had served in it…