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Originally Posted by GunPig
I won't reply on the article other than using the phrase "inaccurate reporting"...but I suppose we are all used to that anyhow.
TS...you are partailly correct...but ("green aircraft") AC-130s are owned and funded by the AF. OPCON is chopped to USSOCOM however, and all special mission equipment and support is an MFP-11 bill.
Truth is there isn't enough money in USSOCOM POM to support the huge O&M bills of AFSOC Aircraft. This "split" funding has been a source of grief since AFSOC came to be.
v/r
gunpig
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I knew someone like you would post that. Just so the readers understand,
The US Air Force might fund their purchase they have nothing to do with their employment. Just like the mother Army buys our Green Berets, they do not employ us, SF Command does, unders USSOCOM.
Mark my words, soon there will be a "5th" service and it will be the Special Operations branch. For all practical purposes we are already a 5th service.
TS