Story by 2nd Lt. Cassandra Saphore | Air Force Special Operations Command | 01.09.2024
Members of the 371st Special Operations Combat Training Squadron Mobile Training Team (MTT) brought the new Special Operations Task Unit-192 course to a mission sustainment team assigned to Cannon Air Force Base last quarter. Over the course of a month, 371st SOCTS executed two iterations of SOTU-192, training fifty Air Commandos for deployment. This specialized ground combat training......
Story by 2nd Lt. Cassandra Saphore | Air Force Special Operations Command | 09.22.2023
Thirty-five members of the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference’s 94th iteration visited Hurlburt Field Sept. 21 to learn about the contributions Air Force Special Operations Command provides to the Joint Force. Air Force Day for JCOC began at AFSOC Headquarters with participants learning the importance of AFSOC’s heritage of warfighting, valor and innovation from Lt. Gen. Tony......
Story by 2nd Lt. Cassandra Saphore | Air Force Special Operations Command | 09.22.2023
Lt. Gen. Tony Bauernfeind, Commander of Air Force Special Operations Command, released the 2023 AFSOC strategic guidance on September 18. The strategic guidance aligns with the 2022 National Defense Strategy and sets forth a framework for Air Commandos, their readiness, and pathfinding efforts. The command is transforming to properly prepare, prevent, and prevail against any adversary in......
Story by 2nd Lt. Cassandra Saphore | Air Force Special Operations Command | 07.18.2023
AFSOC held its second-annual Integrated Resiliency Optimization Network, or IRON, Summit led by the command’s A1 directorate on July 18 – 20. The purpose of this year’s summit was to educate the IRON team providers embedded within the wings on the program’s growing vision and priorities, while also bringing in subject matter experts to give presentations on new best practices and......
Story by 2nd Lt. Cassandra Saphore | Air Force Special Operations Command | 07.14.2023
Today, Colonel Brian Helton relinquished command to Colonel Robert Johnston who is now dual-hatted as commander of the 492d Special Operations Training Group and the Air Commando Development Center-Provisional, ACDC-P....
Story by 2nd Lt. Cassandra Saphore | Air Force Special Operations Command | 05.30.2023
Air Force Special Operations Command’s second Mission Command Summit concluded its three-day event on May 18 with the goal to generate how to instill a culture of mission command across the formation....
Story by 2nd Lt. Cassandra Saphore | Air Force Special Operations Command | 05.24.2023
Connected virtually across six separate geographic locations, SOF participants “gamed” using a mix of local, distant, and virtual players. Specifically, the players included an AC-130J (constructive) and MQ-9 crew from Hurlburt Field, MQ-9 and CV-22 crews from Cannon AFB, a MH-60 crew from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment and three groups of Joint Terminal Attack......
