SOCSOUTH plans, directs and executes special operations missions throughout Central America, South America and the Caribbean to achieve operational and strategic objects in support of the Commander, USSOUTHCOM. As directed, SOCSOUTH responds to crisis in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility to protect U.S. vital interests and to fight and win our nation's wars.
Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force - Crisis Response - Central Command serves as an expeditionary, crisis-response force capable of supporting the evolving requirements of U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command and U.S. Central Command. Acting as a forward-deployed, flexible, shore-based MAGTF capable of conducting crisis response, contingency operations and theater security...
From June to approximately November each year, U.S Marine Corps Forces, South supports the deployment of approximately 300 Marines and sailors to Latin America and the Caribbean. The purpose of SPMAGTF - Southern Command is to conduct security cooperation training and engineering projects with partner nations, while being on standby to respond to natural disasters and humanitarian crises.
SPMAGTF-CR-AF is a rotational autonomous, self-deploying, and highly mobile
crisis response force allocated to U.S. Africa Command to respond to
missions in permissive and uncertain environments to protect U.S. personnel,
property, and interests in the AFRICOM area of responsibility. SPMAGTF-CR-AF
conducts crisis response, contingency operations, theater security
cooperation, enabling...
Twenty Special Tactics Airmen will ruck from Medina Annex at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas to Hurlburt Field, Fla., to pay tribute to Staff Sgt. Dylan J. Elchin who was killed in Afghanistan on Nov. 27, 2018, and in honor of the other 19 Special Tactics Airmen who have been killed in action since 9/11.
Elchin, along with U.S. Army Capt. Andrew Ross and U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Eric Emond,...
Air Force ROTC Cadets receive immersion in Air Force Special Warfare and the Special Warfare Training Wing through physical competition and mentorship.
After BMT, trainees take on the 7-week Special Warfare Candidate's Course. At SWCC, trainees learn how to keep their bodies and mind in peak shape through exercise, proper eating and more so that when they arrive at Assessment and Selection or the TACP Apprentice Course, they're ready for the challenge.
The mission of the Special Warfare Training Wing is to recruit, assess, select and train ground combat forces that specialize in airpower application. The Wing consists of two Groups and seven Squadrons with 12 subordinate Dets/Operating Locations across eight states. The Wing administers 16 training courses and manages Air Force participation in five joint schools, focused on building the...
