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  • SECAF awards Air Force Cross, 10 medals to Air Commandos

    The team was trapped, outnumbered and bombarded by grenades and machine gun fire from elevated positions. Bullets ricocheted around them.Ordnance from circling, friendly aircraft exploded meters from their position, shaking the ground, as smoke from an exploded cache smothered the village.Their

  • “Lead from the front”: Special Tactics general officer retires

    27 years of service. 13 assignments. Countless deployments with joint special operations units and even a stint at Harvard University.On Sept. 8, Brig. Gen. Robert Armfield, vice director of plans and programs for U.S. Central Command, retired from the Air Force surrounded by hundreds of teammates,

  • Special Tactics saves lives in Hurricane Harvey aftermath

    To assist in rescue efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, 38 Special Tactics Airmen were deployed to Southeast Texas to provide critical disaster relief.Special Tactics Airmen with the 123rd and 125th Air National Guard Special Tactics Squadrons are exercising their personnel rescue and

  • Special Tactics simulates chaos, combat in Estonian village

    Combat controllers sprint through the small, rustic village donned in plate carriers and radios, ducking behind buildings for cover, calling in coordinates and relaying information to the ground force commander. The citizens were transformed into enemy combatants, the village homes into targets for

  • Anytime, Anywhere: Special Tactics enables global access in Estonia

    A quiet, rural highway in northern Estonia transformed into a bustling military airfield as combat controllers guided A-10C Thunderbolt IIs onto the 50-foot-wide freeway during a flying training deployment, Aug. 10.A small force of eight 321st Special Tactics Squadron combat controllers surveyed the

  • Ohio highway dedicated to SOF hero

    Two F-16 Fighting Falcons assigned to Ohio Air National Guard’s 180th Fighter Wing provided a final salute to their brother in arms during a ceremony dedicating an Ohio highway to a special operations hero, Aug. 14.Six miles of County Highway 121 was dedicated in Master Sgt. William L. McDaniel II’s

  • Local JROTC cadets experience Special Tactics

    Special Tactics Airmen partnered with more than 50 cadets from five local high schools for a week-long Summer Leadership Course to learn leadership, teamwork, and self-confidence. Special Tactics is a special operations force that solves air and ground problems across the spectrum of conflict and

  • US Air Force Special Tactics trains to lead, build partnership in Jordan

    Explosions reverberate throughout the city, and rapid gunfire echoes off the stucco buildings as a joint nation special operations force fast-ropes onto a three-story building to infiltrate the hostile city.Air Force Special Tactics teams, Jordanian Armed Forces Special Task Force and Italy's 17th