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McChord Air Force Base, Washington: Active [3] 23rd Special Tactics Squadron: Hurlburt Field, Florida: Active [3] 24th Special Tactics Squadron: Pope Field, North Carolina: Active [3] 26th Special Tactics Squadron: Cannon AFB, New Mexico: Active [4] 123rd Special Tactics Squadron: Louisville IAP, Kentucky: Kentucky ANG [3] 125th Special Tactics ...
A Combat Systems Officer (CSO [1]) is a flight member of an aircrew in the United States Air Force and is the mission commander in many multi-crew aircraft. The combat systems officer manages the mission and integrates systems and crew with the aircraft commander to collectively achieve and maintain situational awareness and mission effectiveness.
The Air Force Cross was awarded to 123rd STS Pararescueman then-Tech. Sgt. Keary Miller during the battle of Battle of Takur Ghar a.k.a. the Battle of Roberts Ridge on March 4, 2002. Kerry was part of a small US Air Force team embedded with US Army special forces during the operation in Afghanistan. During the 17-hour long battle Tech. Sgt ...
The Control and Reporting Center integrated three distinct Air Force Specialty Codes (AFSC) into a unified career field, known as the Mission Systems Operator (MSO), in alignment with the objectives set forth by General Charles Brown Jr., Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force. Mission Systems Operators, now under the Multi-Capable ...
Advanced Skills Training is a program for newly assigned Air Force Special Tactics operators. AST produces mission-ready operators for the Air Force, Joint Special Operations Command and United States Special Operations Command. The AST schedule is broken down into four phases: water, ground, employment and full mission profile.
A U.S. Air Force Lockheed C-130H Hercules (s/n 91-1231) from the 165th Airlift Squadron, 123rd Airlift Wing, Kentucky Air National Guard, lands at Lungi, Sierra Leone, on 21 July 2003. In mid-1996, the Air Force, in response to budget cuts, and changing world situations, began experimenting with Air Expeditionary organizations.
The United States Air Force Combat Control Teams, singular Combat Controller (CCT) (AFSC 1Z2X1), are an elite special operations force (specifically known as "special tactics operators") who specialize in all aspects of air-ground communication, as well as air traffic control, fire support (including rotary and fixed-wing close air support), and command, control, and communications in covert ...
Most TACP personnel are assigned to Air Support Operations Squadrons (ASOS), which are organized, trained and equipped to perform one of two functions, that of a Tactical Air Control Party or an Air Support Operations Center (ASOC). 1Z3X1s are experts on man-portable, vehicle-mounted, and field-expedient communications and are trained in ...