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This is a list of United States Air Force reconnaissance squadrons. It covers units considered to be part of the Combat Air Force (CAF) such as bomb and fighter squadrons and serves as a break out of the comprehensive List of United States Air Force squadrons. Units in this list are primarily assigned to Air Combat Command in the United States ...
The Air Force refers to all its ground element as Battlefield Airmen (BA). This designation includes both the Special Operations career fields of AFSOC – Pararescue (PJ), Combat Control (CCT), Special Reconnaissance (SR), and Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) – but also other career fields that often train and support AFSOC elements.
It covers special operations forces units assigned to Air Force Special Operations Command in the United States Air Force. 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 ...
7th Special Operations Squadron: RAF Mildenhall "Air Commandos" MC-130J Commando II: 8th Special Operations Squadron: Hurlburt Field "Black Birds" CV-22 Osprey [6] 9th Special Operations Squadron: Cannon AFB "Night Wings" MC-130J Commando II: 12th Special Operations Squadron: Bien Hoa Air Base, Phan Rang Air Base, South Vietnam: UC-123B, UC-123K
Pages in category "Reconnaissance squadrons of the United States Air Force" The following 143 pages are in this category, out of 143 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Air Force Wing Date First Activated Base Aircraft Tail Code 1st Flying Training Squadron: Air Education and Training Command: Nineteenth Air Force: 12 FTW: 1 July 1969 Pueblo Memorial Airport, Colorado: DA-20 [640] 3rd Flying Training Squadron: Air Education and Training Command: Nineteenth Air Force: 71 FTW: 1 November 1916 Vance AFB, Oklahoma ...
During the 1991 Gulf War, British SAS and United States Army and Air Force Special Operations Forces (AFSOC) units were originally sent behind enemy lines to find mobile Iraqi Scud tactical ballistic missile launchers and direct airstrikes onto them. When air support was delayed, however, the patrols might attack key Scud system elements with ...
Guangzhou Military Region Special Forces Unit - Established in 1988 as the PLA’s first special reconnaissance group, and was later expanded in 2000 to become the first PLA special operations unit to be capable of air, sea, and land operations. Chengdu Military Region Special Forces Unit – Nickname “Falcon”.