page_title: Air Force Special Operations Command
section_title: Air Force
hierarchical_section_title: Air Force Special Operations Command / Units / Air Force
caption_attribution_description: English: 6th Special Operations Squadron and their aircraft. The two closest are UH-1Ns; the white aircraft on the left is a C-47T Turboprop conversion (the USAF is still flying the C-47); the white plane on the right is an Antonov An-26 (a Ukrainian turboprop transport aircraft), and the helicopter in the back is a Mi-8 (a Russian helicopter).
context_page_description: Air Force Special Operations Command, headquartered at Hurlburt Field, Florida, is the special operations component of the United States Air Force. An Air Force major command, AFSOC is also the U.S. Air Force component command to United States Special Operations Command, a unified combatant command located at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. AFSOC provides all Air Force Special Operations Forces 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 and were generally deployed under the control of U.S. Air Forces in Europe or, as had been the case during the Vietnam War, Pacific Air Forces. Just as it had relinquished control of the C-130 theater airlift fleet to Military Airlift Command 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, 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.
context_section_description: The following list contains the flying and Special Tactics squadrons of the Air Force Special Operations Command:
  1st Special Operations Wing, Hurlburt Field, Florida
  1st Special Operations Group
  4th Special Operations Squadron, AC-130U Spooky
  8th Special Operations Squadron, CV-22B Osprey
  15th Special Operations Squadron, MC-130H Combat Talon II
  34th Special Operations Squadron, U-28A
  65th Special Operations Squadron, MQ-9 Reaper
  73d Special Operations Squadron, AC-130J Ghostrider
  319th Special Operations Squadron, U-28A
  24th Special Operations Wing, Hurlburt Field, Florida
  Special Tactics Training Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Florida
  720th Special Tactics Group, Hurlburt Field, Florida
  17th Special Tactics Squadron, Fort Benning, Georgia
  21st Special Tactics Squadron, Pope Field, North Carolina
  22nd Special Tactics Squadron, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington
  23rd Special Tactics Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Florida
  26th Special Tactics Squadron, Cannon AFB, New Mexico
  724th Special Tactics Group, Pope Field, North Carolina
  24th Special Tactics Squadron, Pope Field
  27th Special Operations Wing, Cannon AFB, New Mexico
  27th Special Operations Group
  3rd Special Operations Squadron, MQ-9 Reaper
  9th Special Operations Squadron, MC-130J Commando II
  12th Special Operations Squadron, Expeditionary MQ-9 Reaper launch and recovery
  16th Special Operations Squadron, AC-130W Stinger II
  20th Special Operations Squadron, CV-22B Osprey
  33rd Special Operations Squadron, MQ-9 Reaper
  318th Special Operations Squadron, U-28A
  352nd Special Operations Wing, RAF Mildenhall, UK (supporting EUCOM, AFRICOM, CENTCOM)
  752nd Special Operations Group
  7th Special Operations Squadron, CV-22B Osprey
  67th Special Operations Squadron, MC-130J Commando II
  321st Special Tactics Squadron
  353rd Special Operations Group, Kadena Air Base, Japan (supporting INDOPACOM)
  1st Special Operations Squadron, MC-130J Commando II
  21st Special Operations Squadron, at Yokota Air Base (CV-22B Osprey)
  320th Special Tactics Squadron
  492nd Special Operations Wing, Hurlburt Field, Florida
  492nd Special Operations Training Group
  United States Air Force Special Operations School
  6th Special Operations Squadron, U-28A, Duke Field, Florida
  18th Flight Test Squadron
  19th Special Operations Squadron, training AC-130U/J, MC-130H, U-28A crews
  371st Special Operations Combat Training Squadron, ground training
  524th Special Operations Squadron, C-146A Wolfhound, Duke Field, Florida
  551st Special Operations Squadron, Cannon AFB, training AC-130W, MQ-9, MC-130J, CV-22B crews
caption: Several U.S. and Russian-built aircraft of the 
  Air Force Special Operations Air Warfare Center belonging to the 6th Special Operations Squadron
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