U.S. Air Force Special OPS (Military Power) - Softcover

Before the U.S. Navy SEALs “fast-rope” in, a U.S. Air Force team of combat controllers is on the ground marking the area with infrared beacons. Before the U.S. Army Rangers execute and parachute on a drop zone, this team has been there for days conducting reconnaissance and surveillance and carrying out air traffic operations for follow-on forces.

These are the warriors of the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC). With pararescuemen, combat controllers, and specialized fixed and rotary wing aircrews and aircraft AFSOC is perhaps America’s most diverse special operations force. They fly helicopters so close to the ground you can read the markings on their helmets. AFSOC’s gunships and special mission aircraft insert, supply, and support conventional and special operations forces of their armed forces brethren. Whatever mission they are charged with, they do it.

U.S. Air Force Special Ops is a rare inside look at a force that prizes its anonymity, the unsung heroes of countless covert operations critical to the security of their country. They are an air force with an attitude, and this is their story.

Fred J. Pushies has spent the last 16 years in the company of each of the units assigned to United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM). He has skimmed across the waves with the SEALs in an eighty-two foot long Mark V Special Operations craft, flown at treetop level with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, and crunched through the brush with Force Recon Marines. His integrity and insight are evident in his previous works, Special Ops: America’s Elite Forces in 21st Century Combat, U.S. Air Force Special Ops, U.S. Army Special Forces, Marine Force Recon, and Weapons of the U.S. Navy SEALs.