Air Force ground forces...

[xyyz]

it sorta sounds like an oxymoron... but does the air force have ground forces?

I know they have special forces... whether or not they conduct a foot campaign is unclear to me...

does the air force have a foot soilder unit... or are they all pilots, their support crew and other base-based personal?

I always see air force airmen walking around (Los Angeles Air Force Base, in El Segundo) in their fatigues... but they don't strike me as ground troops.

 

[spaceman]

i pray that we can take out these bastards quickly,and hopefully none of our troops get hurt/killed.
Cant we get some tanks in there,somehow?Im no military strategist but shouldnt we bomb every possible threat that would be posed to our ground troops before sending ANY in?

 

[Tauren]

Yes.

 

[xyyz]

how effective will they be... not very... these guys are gonna' hide in mountains... in very rocky and uneven terrain... a tank is useless unless it has something relatively flat it can roll around on...

as for the site... that is some very bad-ass flash!!!

 

[jacklutz]

You were probably looking at security forces. The Air Force does have those.

 

[Tauren]

That site is awesome. I don't think they are going to be trying to track them down.. I think they may be guiding bombing operations from the ground as we home in own the terrorists.

 

[xyyz]

hmmm... I don't see anything about ground units...

damnit... now i'm wasting time playing their shockwave games...

 

[Tauren]

Sorry I jumped the gun. I saw pics of what appeared to be ground units. Well my Mother and Father were both in the AF so I can always ask them. I keep searching and I can't find a damn thing on ground units.

 

[xyyz]

<< Sorry I jumped the gun. I saw pics of what appeared to be ground units. Well my Mother and Father were both in the AF so I can always ask them. I keep searching and I can't find a damn thing on ground units. >>



I'd really appreciate if you could ask them....

I wonder what it takes to get into the AF special forces...

 

[xyyz]

hmmm the army needs to get it's act together... err for it's website....

the AF has an amazing site as does the Navy.... but the army's is really unattractive right now :/

 

[warlord]

the Airforce has ground forces that protect the planes on bases, they also have their own mp's, but in terms of attack ground forces the airforce does not have them.

Airforce special forces are called PJ's. These guys are up there in terms of intelligence and courage, they go in alone, and have quite a bit of medical knowledge. If an airman goes down, PJ's are dropped in, sometimes by themselves, to locate and administer any field medical treatment necessary to move the airman to pickup place.

 

[xyyz]

<< the Airforce has ground forces that protect the planes on bases, they also have their own mp's, but in terms of attack ground forces the airforce does not have them.

Airforce special forces are called PJ's. These guys are up there in terms of intelligence and courage, they go in alone, and have quite a bit of medical knowledge. If an airman goes down, PJ's are dropped in, sometimes by themselves, to locate and administer any field medical treatment necessary to move the airman to pickup place. >>



so what are these guys... paramedics?

 

[Tauren]

<<paramedics?>>


I don't know if that is the technical term, but that's what my Father was. (I haven't spoken to him in a few years)

 

[gopunk]

the air force does have ground forces, they parachute out of planes, and secure an area for planes to land in.

Special Tactics Teams

 

[hungrypete]

they've got some pretty good special forces too....

 

[warlord]

<< the air force does have ground forces, they parachute out of planes, and secure an area for planes to land in. >>


These guys are special forces. PJ's are Pararescue men, thats their title.

 

[gopunk]

These guys are special forces. PJ's are Pararescue men, thats their title.

huh? pj's are part of the atts

 

[AndrewR]

Air Force ground combat units are part of Security Forces. SF units serve in two capacities -- force protection (aircraft and personnel) and policing. The force protection guys train in ground combat and could probably be used in a patrolling capacity, but they are not large units, being kept to about platoon or squad level in operation. One of my classmates is a former SF ground combat instructor.

Air Force spec ops units, in the ground operation sense, fall in three categories: CCTs, PJs, and Combat Weathermen. CCTs, or Combat Controllers, are the guys who drop in to an area and secure a landing zone for aircraft, typically behind enemy lines. PJs are the pararescue guys who are highly trained in combat (Ranger, airborne/air assault, I think SEAL training also -- unsure of the extent, but I can check online). THEN, once they are full up on the combat side, they have to basically become triage doctors. It is one of THE hardest jobs in the military because you can't just be a physical specimen since you have to know a full range of medical techniques as well. Wash out rate is astronomically high. Combat weatherman is a new position, from what I understand, but is something that has been lacking in the past. While it sounds funny, weather prediction is EXTREMELY important to special operations units in many respects. I don't know a heck of a lot about this one as I just learned of it recently.

The majority of Air Force special operations units are flying ones -- guess who ferries in all those Rangers, Special Forces and SEALs? It's not the other services using slick Blackhawks in most cases. There are other aircraft as well for resupply, aerial refueling, and psyops.