Special Operations News
Chronic Critical Skill career fields offer opportunities
WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- Enlisted Airmen serving in certain career fields have a greater opportunity for promotion through an annually updated Chronic Critical Skills Program list. A number of
Wing helps SOCPAC make a splash in Guam
ANDERSEN, GUAM (Sine Pari, June 19, 2008) - On May 5, 15th Airlift wing C-17A crewmembers returned from an extremely successful training exercise with Navy
JTACs train in complex art of coordinating close-air support
AVON PARK, Fla. (AFPN) -- Exercise Atlantic Strike VII kicked off June 14 in the swampy pinegroves of the Avon Park Air Ground Training Complex as more ...
19th SFG(A) Trains with Serbian Paras
The delegation of the Ohio National Guard, consisting of 39 officers, NCOs and civilians, paid a visit to our armed forces from 15 to 22 ...
Academy Cadets Experience Life in Special Tactics
HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. -- Nearly 30 Air Force Academy cadets took part in a Monster Mash here June 13 as part of an orientation course to experience ...
Ranger training wows beachgoers
Tybee Island, Ga. (Sine Pari, June 10, 2008) - It’s not a bird or a plane, but it was the Rangers who came to roost ...
Special Tactics Training Squadron takes flight, welcomes first commander
HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. -- The squadron charged with training Air Force Special Operations Command's special tactics operators unfurled its flag and welcomed its first commander today during ...Following the Green Beret
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (USASOC News Service, June 3, 2008) – Donning the green beret, receiving the sacred Special Forces tab and the continuation of a ...3/75th Ranger Regiment welcomes new commander
FORT BENNING, Ga. (USASOC News Service, May 30, 2008) – The 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment welcomed its 19th commander in a ceremony at Fort ...Reserve squadron to become backbone of active-duty training center
HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. -- As tradition has it, transferring possession of a squadron's flag from one leader to the next signifies a shift of responsibilities between the ...
MSOAG Marines set their sites down range
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — “The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle,” said R. Lee Ermey in ...
MARSOC advisors get constructive with destruction
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. —Warriors encounter many obstacles on the battlefield. Some they can maneuver over, under or around, others they must either go ...MARSOC instructor gets schooled
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (May 1, 2008) – Seeking self improvement is an idea that is very familiar to Marines throughout the Corps. ...
Spec Ops hone special reconnaissance
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (April 8, 2008) – A pick-up truck rolls into a small village carrying stacks of small arms, mortar rounds ...
Thais, Americans join forces for Operation Teak Torch
UDON THANI, Thailand -- The language of friendship forged through any communication barriers as Royal Thai air forces and the United States Air Force joined together ...
SOF weapons go hard Corps
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (April 10, 2008) – Inside the confines of the armory of 2d Marine Special Operations Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps ...
MSOAG instructors train to train
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Even experts need practice, so Marine Special Operation Advisor Group’s Standards and Training section instructors conducted combat marksmanship training here, ...
4th Annual JSOC Small Arms Championship
The Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) will be sponsoring the 4th Annual JSOC Small Arms Championship from 27 April to 02 May 2008. The flyer for the event ...
Hundreds Compete with Navy SEALs in 30th Annual Race
CORONADO, Calif. (NNS) -- Nearly 600 athletes battled it out in the surf, sand and on asphalt at the 30th Annual Superfrog triathlon and the ...
Cannon Commandos march to honor Bataan POWs
CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. -- "Sand, hills and pain," an elderly marcher said, describing the 26.2 mile Bataan Memorial Death March, held March 30 at White ...
Vietnam-era Navy SEAL honored 35 years after secret mission
SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- More than three decades after a daring attempt to rescue prisoners of war in Vietnam ended in tragedy, a retired Navy ...
Commando School Strengthens Iraq's Special Operations Forces
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Courtesy of CJSOTF-AP Public Affairs, Apr. 3, 2008) - The four Iraqi soldiers stood tightly packed together, weapons clutched in their hands, as ...
Special Ops Marines deliver in southern Afghanistan
HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan(Mar. 14, 2008) -- For Marines, “special forces” traditionally means Force Reconnaissance units.Most have heard stories about Force “Recon,” but they may not ...
Navy corpsmen with Special Ops save lives in combat zone
HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Mar. 12, 2008) -- On the battlefield or on the firebase, Navy hospital corpsmen routinely care for and treat Afghans with medical ...
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India's Special Operations Forces were recently called into action during the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Who are these elite forces?More on the Indian NSG Video: Indian NSG in Mumbai
