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Combat Arms Training and Maintenance (CATM), or simply Combat Arms, are United States Air Force Security Forces personnel who train base populace on the use of small arms, oversee, maintain and repair all small arms in the U.S. Air Force inventory. [1]
23rd Maintenance Group, 23rd Wing: Moody Air Force Base [12] 736th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 436th Maintenance Group, 436th Airlift Wing: Dover Air Force Base [49] 755th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: We Maintain The Jam: 55th Electronic Combat Group, 55th Wing: Davis–Monthan Air Force Base: 55th Wing Geographically Separated Unit (GSU)
Special Tactics Squadrons consist of Special Tactics Officers, Combat Controllers, Combat Rescue Officers, Pararescuemen, Special Reconnaissance, Tactical Air Control Party operators, and a number of combat support airmen which comprise 58 Air Force specialties. [1]
After the Air Force separated from the Army in 1947, it retained the Army's system of MOS occupation codes, modifying them in 1954. These were 5-digit codes; for example a maintenance data systems specialist was 39150 and a weather technician was 25170.
11th Air Support Operations Squadron: Fort Hood, Texas: 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment [2] Inactive 13th Air Support Operations Squadron: Fort Carson, Colorado: 4th Infantry Division: Active 14th Air Support Operations Squadron: Pope Field, North Carolina: 82d Airborne Division: Active 15th Air Support Operations Squadron: Fort Stewart, Georgia ...
Tactical Air Control Party specialists (AFSC 1Z3X1) are currently the only United States Air Force specialty allowed to wear the coveted black beret as part of their daily duty uniform wear. TACP Officers (TACPOs) are also authorized to wear the black beret after they graduate from the Basic ALO Skills Course (BASC), conducted at Nellis Air ...
The Aggressors, flying the T-38 Talon and F-5E Tiger II were stood-up as part of the Weapons School in the early 1970s to improve air-to-air skills by providing accurate threat replication for dissimilar air combat training. The A-7D tenure in the school was a brief 3 years as the squadron transitioned from A-7s to F-5 Aggressors in 1975.
Staff Sgt. Richard Hunter, a combat controller with the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron, received the Air Force Cross for his actions during a battle in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan on 2 November 2016. Hunter was embedded in a joint US Special Forces/Afghan unit that was engaged in a fierce firefight in a village near Kunduz Province ...