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GLOBAL ACCESS

ANY WHERE, ANY TIME

Special Tactics Global Access Teams are tasked with assessing and opening anything from a major international airport to clandestine dirt strips in either permissive or hostile locations, providing strategic access for follow-on forces.

Global Access Teams ensure U.S. and allies nations can access man-made and natural contested, degraded, and operationally challenged environments, enabling options for assault, maneuver, and power projection.

GLOBAL ACCESS CAPABILITIES

SPECIAL RECONNAISSANCE

AUSTERE AIRFIELD AND ASSAULT ZONE OPERATIONS

PRE-STAGING RUNWAY AND SECURING AIRFIELDS

FORCE PROJECTION

ENVIRONMENTAL RECON/ TERRAIN ANALYSIS

GLOBAL ACCESS IN ACTION

PAST TRAINING AND MISSIONS

  • August 2017, Estonia

  • An 8-man Special Tactics team with the 321st Special Tactics Squadron in the United Kingdom, along with an A-10 Thunderbolt II from Maryland Air National Guard's 104th Fighter Squadron, surveyed a two-lane highway, deconflicted airspace, and exercised command and control on the ground and air to land A-10's on the highway.

  • February 2019, New Mexico

  • Special Tactics forces with the 26th STS at Cannon AFB, NM, MC-130j Commando II from Cannon and F-35A lightning II from Hill AFB, UT, simulated seizing, clearing and operating "austere airfield" to marshal MC-130 into position, guided F-35's to park, and supervised safe fuel operations to get them back in flight.

  • 2019, Afghanistan

  • Special Tactics Airmen in Afghanistan surveyed a closed runway to reopen for follow-on forces, force projection and support mission support site operations.

  • November 2020, Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras

  • U.S. Air Force Special Tactics operators from the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Florida, responded to a request for humanitarian assistance following the devastation of Hurricanes Eta and Iota in Central America. Teams surveyed various airfields and determined viability for humanitarian aid entry areas.