Air Force Special Operations Command

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Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) is the major command charged with overseeing the United States Air Force's Special Operations Forces (SOF). AFSOC is the air force component of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM).

AFSOC was established in May 22, 1990 and is headquartered in Hurlburt Field, Florida.

From the establishment of USSOCOM in June of 1987 until the creation of AFSOC in May 1990, Military Airlift Command's Twenty-Third Air Force (23AF), less its aerospace rescue and aeromedical evacuation units, served as the air force component of USSOCOM, and the commander, Twenty-Third Air Force, served as the air force component commander of USSOCOM.

Contents

1 Lineage
2 Units
3 Air National Guard units
4 Air Force Reserve units
5 External links
6 See also

Lineage

Established as Twenty-Third Air Force on February 10, 1983. Activated on March 1, 1983. Redesignated Air Force Special Operations Command, with the status of a major command, on May 22, 1990.

Units

AFSOC emblem

16th Special Operations Wing
352d Special Operations Group
353d Special Operations Group
720th Special Tactics Group
U.S. Air Force Special Operations School
18th Flight Test Squadron
Electronic Combat Support Flight

Air National Guard units

193d Special Operations Wing, Pennsylvania
123d Special Tactics Squadron, Kentucky
125th Special Tactics Squadron, Oregon
209th Civil Engineer Squadron
280th Combat Communications Squadron, Alabama
107th Weather Flight
146th Weather Flight
181st Weather Flight

Air Force Reserve units

919th Special Operations Wing

External links