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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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Irregular Warfare Division 

- Building Partner Aviation Capacity Course (BPACC)
- Contemporary Insurgent Warfare Course (CIWC)
- Contemporary Insurgent Warfare Seminar (CIWS)  
- Dynamics of International Terrorism (DIT)
- Insurgency and Foreign Internal Defense Course (IFID)
- Responsible Officer's Course (ROC)

Regional Affairs Division

- Asia Pacific Orientation Course (APOC)
- Cross-Cultural Communications Course (CCC)
- Latin America Orientation Course (LAOC)
- Middle East Orientation Course (MEOC)
- Russia/Eurasia Orientation Course (REOC-1)
- Sub-Saharan Africa Orientation Course (SAOC)
- South/Central Asia Orientation Course (SCAOC)

Special Operations Division

- Introduction to Special Operations Course (ISOC)
- Joint Special Ops Air Component Course (JSOAC)
- Joint Special Ops Air Comp CC's Course (JSOAC-CC)
- Joint Special Ops Air Comp/Special Operations Liaison Element Course (JSOAC/SOLE)
- Mission Commander's Course (MCC)
- Special Ops Liaison Element (SOLE)
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Message from the Commandant
Col William D. Andersen
USAF Special Operations School
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Welcome to the United States Air Force Special Operations School (USAFSOS). Our mission is to provide relevant and responsive education to enable Air Commando Excellence in ambiguous and uncertain operating environments. Thus, our primary educational focus is on indoctrination, regional orientation, and advancement of life-long professional development for Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) military and civilian personnel. USAFSOS also provides specialized courses covering command and control of Special Operations Forces (SOF) air assets, and strategies for the appropriate integration of SOF air assets into the Air Operations Center and other areas not covered by our Army, Navy and Marine Special Operations counterparts. We welcome, on a space-available basis, DoD and other governmental personnel outside of AFSOC.

USAFSOS, as AFSOC's center for educational excellence, focuses its courses in three areas: Special Operations, Regional Studies and Irregular Warfare. As such, we offer one-of-a-kind educational opportunities in subject matter from the Dynamics of International Terrorism to Aviation Foreign Internal Defense, to Building Partnership Aviation Capacity.

Throughout our spiraled educational spectrum, we are unapologetically focused on "Turning Airmen into Air Commandos." Again, Welcome to the USAFSOS educational experience.
 

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