Air Force Special Operations Command is taking a closer look at how it trains airmen to join each of its career fields, as the service’s elite corps prepares for a new era in combat.

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. ...

The Air Force has activated a new recruiting squadron at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland’s Medina Annex in Texas, focused on sourcing candidates for its special operations career fields.. For ...

Special Operations: Air Force Combat Controllers. A U.S. Army soldier assigned to 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment, 16th Combat Aviation Brigade communicates with pilots during training at ...

The Air Force Is Changing How Special Ops Fighters Are Trained. Big data and new technology help the USAF determine their elite fighters' precise mental and physical limits—and push past them.

The 27th Special Operations Wing underwent the new inspection as part of the Emerald Warrior exercise. Air Force Inspector General Lt. Gen. Stephen Davis watched the 27th at Cannon Air Force Base ...

An Air Force general calls B.S. on social media claims that a female special ops trainee got ‘preferential treatment’ The Marine Corps reservist who fed stranded drivers on I-95 was given a ...

Air Force special operations boss Lt. Gen. Tony Bauernfeind has been nominated to lead the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. Bauernfeind's selection by President Joe Biden on Tuesday comes fewer ...

For the Air Force’s special ops world — particularly for CCTs and pararescuemen, or PJs, whose training is historically similar — eager volunteers quit in droves during hours of pool ...

The senior enlisted leader of U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), which oversees roughly 20,000 personnel, has been relieved of duty due to a "loss of confidence in his ability to ...

A 27th Special Operations Wing airman at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada, Aug. 5, 2024. (Staff Sgt. Kevin Williams/U.S. Air Force) The Air Force’s Special Operations Command began a new ...

Air Force Special Operations Command flies some of the most sophisticated planes in the military, and none of them are fighter jets. By Jay Bennett Published: May 10, 2017 2:48 PM EDT U.S. Air Force ...