Special Tactics airmen are the Air Force's ground special operations component. With more than 650 combat mission support airmen and 1,000 Special Tactics operators in 29 locations, they are ...

A US air force F-15, none of which have ever been lost in combat The shooting-down of a Syrian jet by the United States is believed to be the first air-to-air kill by a manned US aircraft since 1999.

The service is also mulling fresh tactics that would allow its combat missions to succeed ... like the Compass Call electronic-attack fleet, the squadrons are the Air Force's first units solely ...