air force special operations command

Putting the "kill" in kilowatt

As military activity in the Arctic increases, the U.S. Air Force expects to play major role, and its special operators are already adapting to the region's challenging conditions

Special Tactics airmen are the Air Force's ground special operations component. With more than 650 combat mission support airmen and 1,000 Special Tactics operators in 29 locations, they are experts in global access, precision strike, personnel recovery and battlefield surgery operations

The Air Force is experimenting with turning its cargo and transport planes into munitions trucks able to drop devastating bundles of standoff weaponry

After years of funding woes, Air Force Special Operations Command is on track to fire a high-powered laser weapon from an AC-130 gunship sometime in fiscal year 2022

Social media: where the rules are made up, the points don't matter, and virtually every single error is unforced

Parachuting, diving and mountaineering training and related operations are off-limits to U.S. airmen for now as Air Force Special Operations Command investigates the deaths of two special tactics airmen.

A U.S. Air Force combat controller will receive the nation's third highest award for valor this week for playing an essential role in two intense firefight missions against the Taliban in Afghanistan last year

Commander of Air Force Special Operations Command called him an "example of the embodiment of the American Airman."

Air Force Brig. Gen. Brenda Cartier, the service's first female air commando, recently received a letter of counseling after an Inspector General investigation found that she had failed to treat her subordinates "with dignity and respect" in her previous job, according to the IG documents

“These six airmen exhibit extreme competence that I think defines air commandos. Despite all the difficulties and despite all the chaos with the mission, they knew there was a way and they were going to find it.”

On Dec. 6th, a sea of blue flooded a sleepy township in Pennsylvania to honor Staff Sgt. Dylan Elchin, the 25-year-old...

In the last two hours of his life, Air Force Tech. Sgt. John A. Chapman saved the lives of a...

The AC-130J Ghostrider ground-attack aircraft has picked up several different unofficial moinikers in the five years the Air Force Special...

Air Force Special Operations Command has been itching to add a frickin’ laser beam to the already-brimming arsenal of its...

The MC-103J Commando II airplane rumbled low to the ground, nearing the intense firefight below where a team of American...

The AC-130J Ghostrider, the next-generation gunship the Air Force once dubbed its “ultimate battle plane” and “a bomb truck with...

The U.S. Air Force promised its the nexy generation of the beloved AC-130 gunship would basically be the equivalent of...

Ever since the Air Force announced the development of the AC-130J Ghostrider to replace older generations of Lockheed Martin’s reliable...