Air Force Special Operations Command | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-22

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00:01:57 1 Predecessor USAAF and USAF special operations units
00:02:12 1.1 World War II
00:02:36 1.2 Korean War
00:04:10 1.3 Early Cold War era
00:05:10 1.4 Vietnam War era
00:05:43 1.5 Late Cold War era
00:06:05 2 Lineage
00:06:34 2.1 Assignments
00:06:56 2.2 Stations
00:07:18 2.3 Components
00:10:36 3 Units
00:15:36 3.1 Air National Guard (ANG) units
00:17:54 3.2 Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) units
00:18:37 3.3 Personnel and resources
00:23:21 3.4 Aircraft
00:23:30 3.4.1 Current
00:25:25 3.4.2 Future
00:26:11 4 History
00:26:20 4.1 Twenty-Third Air Force (23 AF)
00:27:23 4.1.1 Operation Urgent Fury
00:28:28 4.1.2 U.S. Special Operations Command
00:30:21 4.1.3 Operation Just Cause
00:34:39 4.1.4 Gulf War
00:36:40 4.2 AFSOC
00:36:50 4.2.1 Post-Gulf War
00:37:26 4.2.2 Operation Enduring Freedom
00:38:50 4.2.3 Operation Iraqi Freedom
00:39:40 5 Commanders
00:39:57 6 Contingency operations
00:40:08 7 Gallery
00:40:17 8 See also



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Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), headquartered at Hurlburt Field, Florida, is the special operations component of the United States Air Force. An Air Force major command (MAJCOM), AFSOC is also the U.S. Air Force component command to United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), a unified combatant command located at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. AFSOC provides all Air Force Special Operations Forces (SOF) for worldwide deployment and assignment to regional unified combatant commands.
Before 1983, Air Force special operations forces were primarily assigned to the Tactical Air Command (TAC) and were generally deployed under the control of U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) or, as had been the case during the Vietnam War, Pacific Air Forces (PACAF).  Just as it had relinquished control of the C-130 theater airlift fleet to Military Airlift Command (MAC) in 1975, TAC relinquished control of Air Force SOF to MAC in December 1982.
AFSOC was initially established on 10 February 1983 as Twenty-Third Air Force (23 AF), a subordinate numbered air force of MAC, with 23 AF headquarters initially established at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.  On 1 August 1987, 23 AF headquarters moved to Hurlburt Field, Florida.