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Started by Gaiiden Jul 23, 2002 at 7:43 PM 9 replies 600+ views
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Gaiiden
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What''s the name of the Air Forces'' special operations team? I know each branch of the military has one. And if anyone cares to know why I''m asking this: Project Takedown _________________________________________________________________ Drew Sikora A.K.A. Gaiiden ICQ #: 70449988 AOLIM: DarkPylat Blade Edge Software Staff Member, GDNet Public Relations, Game Institute 3-time Contributing author, Game Design Methods , Charles River Media (coming April/May 2002) Online column - Design Corner at Pixelate Unnoficial IGDA chat! [polaris.starchat.net -> #igda] NJ IGDA Chapter - NJ developers unite!! [Chapter Home | Chapter Forum] "Real programmers don''t work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it''s because they were up all night." -Anon.
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Hikeeba
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You have Pararescue and Combat Controllers. Neither one is specifically combat oriented, but they can do it. Pararescue are highly trained medics and combat controllers are highly trained air traffic controllers. Those are broad generalizations however.

Check out SpecialTactics.com and SpecialOperations.com.

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munkie
munkie
Drew, that would be the Top Gun.
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Hitchhiker90
Hitchhiker90
And to think I was in the Air Force and I forgot the special forces names. I remember in bootcamp they ask for volunteers to try out for the special forces.
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omegasyphon
omegasyphon
um the top gun is for the navy. and is no more. i would think flying the f22 would be enough to be its own special force.
Spudgun
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SAS = Special Air Service (UK)

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BitBlt
BitBlt
quote:
Original post by omegasyphon
um the top gun is for the navy. and is no more. i would think flying the f22 would be enough to be its own special force.


I thought the Navy Seals were the Navy special ops team? Unless they had a regular Navy special ops and the Navy pilots special ops (Top Gun).

I think it''s pararescue as well.
Strife
Strife
Navy had both Top Gun and SEALs as their special forces teams, though I don''t know if I''d consider "top gun" special forces... It was just special pilot training.

And their is no Navy version of the F-22 yet... It''s still strictly Air Force, afaik.

Hikeeba
Hikeeba
Top Gun was not an SOF. It was a combat training school for pilots.

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Gorky
Gorky
Been away, so I didn''t notice this till now.

What Hitchhiker90 is thinking of, is Air Force Rangers.
They train just like/with the Army Rangers.

You almost never hear about them.

A link to a site with diffent names of Rangers with branches:
http://www.philmontrangers.com/rosters/1999.html

They are primarily used for pilot rescues and targer identification/acquisition.

They are masters at survival skills.

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