AST produces mission-ready operators for the Air Force and U.S. Special Operations Command. The AST schedule is broken down into four phases: water, ground, employment and full mission profile.

Air Force Special Operations Command boss Lt. Gen. Tony Bauernfeind gives Indonesian Air Vice-Marshall Wahyu Hidayat Sudjatmiko a tour of AFSOC headquarters at Hurlburt Field, Fla., May 15, 2023.

Air Force Special Operations Command was established May 22, 1990, with headquarters at Hurlburt Field, Florida. AFSOC is one of 10 major Air Force commands and the Air Force component of U.S. ...

Air Force will honor the Air Force Special Operations Command with custom jerseys for the 2024 season. The Falcons unveiled the new jerseys on Tuesday ahead of their debut on Oct. 5 against Navy ...

Air Force Special Operations Command Leadership announced the name for the OA-1K during the Special Air Warfare Symposium in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Feb. 27, 2025. The moniker renews the ...

Command Chief Master Sgt. Anthony Green, senior enlisted leader of Air Force Special Operations Command, was fired over a loss of confidence in his ability to do the job, service officials said.

Special operations weather team members of the 10th Combat Weather Squadron prepare to release a weather balloon during a training exercise in July 2013 at the Eglin Range, Fla. SOWTs provide ...

The Air Force Special Operations AC-130 gunship, for instance, often circled Kandahar in Afghanistan, to fire its 105mm side-firing cannons to attack Taliban fighters.

The rudimentary nature of the OA-1K Skyraider II, which will serve alongside such advanced machines as the F-22 Raptor and AH-64 Apache, is in fact one of the aircraft’s upsides.

The Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) has grounded its entire fleet of CV-22 Ospreys due to two recent safety incidents involving the aircraft’s clutch. The standdown of the 52 ...

Long known for supporting ground operations, Air Force Special Operations Command is now looking to plague adversaries in new ways—and to do it on the cheap, the force’s commander says. That ...

For example, many of the past commanders of Air Force Special Operations Command flew or navigated aboard MC-130s, AC-130 gunships, HH-3E helicopters, or even the massive C-141 transport jets. Lt ...