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Mission: Deliver responsive and relevant education, to enable Air Commando excellence in complex and ambiguous operational environments world-wide. "Turning Airmen into Air Commandos since 1967." In April 1967, the U. S. Air Force Special Air Warfare School was activated at Hurlburt Field under the Special Air Warfare Center, then located at Eglin AFB. In 1968, the school was redesignated the U.S. Air Force Special Operations School. During its formative years, the school's main thrust was the preparation of Air Force personnel for duty in Southeast Asia. Since then, the USAFSOS curriculum has grown from a single course of instruction with 300 graduates per year to 78 classes representing 28 formal courses a year and approximately 25 off-station tutorials. For more USAFSOS history, click here.
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USAFSOS has redesigned its curriculum and methods of delivery.  USAFSOS now offers Remote Learning, On-Demand, and select Face-to-Face courses concentrating on indoctrination and pre-deployment requirements.

USAFSOS Mission

Mission: Execute relevant SOTU, SOTG, and JTF military education to develop Air Commandos ready to accomplish the nation' most demanding missions.


Vision: Deliberate AFSOC education, fused with training and experience to create Air Commandos capable of meeting America's current and future challenges in an uncertain and dangerous world, as part of the Joint Force. 

Course List

professional development
  • Flight Leadership
  • AFSOC Staff Action Officer Development
  • Squadron Leadership
  • Wing-A-Staff Development 
Warfighting
  • Introduction to Special Operations
  • EUCOM Orientation 
  • INDOPACOM Orientation 
  • AFRICOM Orientation 
  • CENTCOM Orientation 
  • SOUTHCOM/NORTHCOM Orientation 
AFFORGEN 
  • Special Operations Task Unit 
  • Special Operations Task Group 
campaigning
  • Special Operations Task Group 
  • EUCOM Operations 
  • INDOPACOM Operations 
  • AFRICOM Operations 
  • CENTCOM Operations 
  • SOUTHCOM Operations 




 
SECURITY COOPERATION
  • Building Partner Aviation Capacity Seminar
enhancement
  • SOTU-AP: Cross Cultural Engagement
  • SOTU-AP: Negotiations for AFSOF
  • Force Protection for Air Commandos
  • SOF Antiterrorism Level II/III

 

*For more information, please see Course Schedule below

 

 

 

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 Registrar/Student Support: 
  • COMM: 850-884-4757/58
  • COMM: 850-884-8368  
  • (DSN 579-4757)
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USAFSOS Documents

USAFSOS History

The USAF Special Operations School is the product of a 58-year evolutionary process. The process began in March 1961 when President John F. Kennedy, responding to Chairman Nikita S. Khruschev's clarion call for "wars of national liberation," cited the need for countering "subversion and guerilla warfare" that were the heart of Communist insurgency.  As a result, the Air Force increased the emphasis given to special air warfare training. 

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