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. 

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. 

• https://intellipedia.intelink.gov/wiki/USAFSOS

• https://www.hurlburt.af.mil/