An ERDL jungle shirt named to Daniel J. Simon who served with CCC as part of TF2AE, Task Forces Advisory Element based at Kontum. In late March 1971, when the 5th Special Force Group was redeployed to the U.S., American Special Forces personnel assigned to the three Command and Control units were ordered to don black baseball caps when in garrison, rather than wear their Green Berets, and the Command and Control elements (CCN, CCS, & CCC) were renamed Task Force Advisory Elements (TF1AE, TF2AE, & TF3AE). They also had to remove the SF insignia from their left sleeve and display the USARV patch instead, they could display the SF SI on the right side as a combat patch. The insignia and name tapes are all Vietnamese made.

They originally consisted of 244 U.S. and 780 indigenous personnel each, but they were quickly drawn down by the elimination of the exploitation forces.