Today, our mission is to conduct global air, space, and cyber-enabled special operations across the spectrum of conflict to prepare for, fight, and win our nation’s wars. We’re U.S. Special Operations Command’s tactical air and ground integration force and the Air Force’s special operations ground force who leads global access, precision strike, personnel recovery and battlefield surgery operations.
We currently operate out of 29 locations across the globe and have 13 geographically separated units. There are only about 1,000 Special Tactics operators in the Air Force and approximately 2,500 members make up the Special Tactics community.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, Air Force Special Tactics have been involved in almost every major operation and has seen a significant amount of combat. They are the most highly decorated community in the Air Force since the end of the Vietnam War.