This Air Force Unit Has Been Fighting Alongside Army Rangers Since 9/11

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This Air Force Unit Has Been Fighting Alongside Army Rangers Since 9/11
 
11 Sep 2020
Military.com | By Matthew Cox

The Air Force typically doesn't get a lot of credit for close-range ground combat missions, but there is one unit that has fought alongside Army Rangers almost every day since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Since its initial deployment in October 2001, elements of the 17th Special Tactics Squadron have deployed with units of the 75th Ranger Regiment for more than 6,900 days and counting. The headquarters and two operational detachments of the 17th have been in a continuous rotation of combat deployments in the 19 years since 9/11, according to an Air Force news release.

"We fight, bleed and laugh beside [the Rangers]. We win as a team or fail as a team," Air Force Staff Sgt. Ryan Duhon, a tactical air control party (TACP) airman who's responsible for directing close-air support with precision strike munitions on enemy targets when the elite Army raid force maneuvers on attack objectives, said in the news release.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/09/11/air-force-unit-has-been-fighting-alongside-army-rangers-9-11.html

[sneakypete]

Not just the USAF.

The US Navy is involved,but at a smaller level.

My niece married her high school boyfriend,who enlisted in the Navy after graduation. He had linguistic ability,so the Navy sent him to language schools to learn Muddle Eastern languages.

He is less than 2 years from retirement now,a E-8,and has never had a Navy assignment. He has been attached to various Army units his whole career.

BTW,I have to give "props" to the Navy for promoting him even though he wasn't working with the Navy. The Army generally treated people serving cross-service duty as red-headed stepchildren,and they rarely got promoted.