Commando Wing Late Cold War era 4400th Combat Crew Training Group 1st Special Operations Wing Twenty-Third Air Force Lineage Established as Twenty-Third Air Force on 10 February 1983 Activated on 1 March 1983 Redesignated Air Force Special Operations Command and made a major command on 22 May 1990 Assignments Military Airlift Command, 1 March 1983 United States Air Force, 22 May 1990 – present Stations Scott AFB, Illinois, 1 March 1983 Hurlburt Field, Florida, 1 August 1987 – present Components Air Forces Special Operations Center (redesignated 623d Air and Space Operations Center): 13 December 2005 – 1 January 2008 Twenty-Third Air Force (Air Forces Special Operations Forces): 1 January 2008 – 4 April 2013 AFSOC Operations Center: 4 April 2013 – present 2d Air Division, 1 March 1983 – 1 February 1987 Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service, 1 March 1983 – 1 August 1989 Air Rescue Service, 1 August 1989 – 1993 1st Special Operations Wing, 1 February 1987 – present 24th Special Operations Wing, 12 June 2012 – present 27th Special Operations Wing, 1 October 2007 – present 41st Rescue and Weather Reconnaissance Wing, 1 October 1983 – 1 August 1989 352d Special Operations Wing, 1 October 1983 – present 353d Special Operations Group, 6 April 1989 – present 375th Aeromedical Airlift Wing: 1 January 1984 – 1 February 1990 492d Special Operations Wing: 10 May 2017 – present 720th Special Tactics Group: 1 October 1987 – Present 724th Special Tactics Group: 29 April 2011 – Present 1550th Aircrew Training and Test Wing (later, 1550th Combat Crew Training Wing): 1 October 1983 – 21 May 1990 USAF Special Operations School, 1 February 1987 – 22 May 1990 Air Force Special Operations Training Center, 8 October 2008 – 11 February 2013 Air Force Special Operations Air Warfare Center, 11 February 2013 – 10 May 2017 Units Air Force The following list contains the flying and Special Tactics squadrons of the Air Force Special Operations Command: 1st Special Operations Wing, Hurlburt Field, Florida 1st Special Operations Group 4th Special Operations Squadron, AC-130J Ghostrider 8th Special Operations Squadron, CV-22B Osprey 15th Special Operations Squadron, MC-130H Combat Talon II 34th Special Operations Squadron, U-28A 65th Special Operations Squadron, MQ-9 Reaper 73rd Special Operations Squadron, AC-130J Ghostrider 319th Special Operations Squadron, U-28A 24th Special Operations Wing, Hurlburt Field, Florida Special Tactics Training Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Florida 720th Special Tactics Group, Hurlburt Field, Florida 17th