[Loose Cannon]

What is the typical breakdown of a STT? I have a sorta Combat Controller team with my Airborne Squadron. More like 20 men.

[Tyroc]

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Originally Posted by Loose Cannon

What is the typical breakdown of a STT? I have a sorta Combat Controller team with my Airborne Squadron. More like 20 men.

A typical breakdown of a STS was;

x1 Special Tactics Officer (sometimes JTAC qualified, he gets the same training as a CCT)

x 11 Combat Controllers
x 6 PJ's

One of the enlisted (either PJ or CCT) will be the Team Superintendent (or Team NCO)

SOWT were attached at the SF Group level (x2 Enlisted and one Officer) and the BN level (x3 Enlisted and x 1 Officer) and could be attached individually according to mission

I think the Tactical Air Control Party was the same.


Information from here; http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/virt...RCE/3504AF.PDF

and

https://www.socom.mil/JSOU/JSOUPubli...l_final_cc.pdf

The above is from circa 2015, since then SOWT / Weathermen and TACP and SERE Specialists have joined STT's. I don't know how they're manned now.

Also, there are plans to revolutionize the way Battlefield Airmen are deployed. I think the AFSOC higher ups have become irritated with the relative dysfunction of how Battlefield Airmen are utilized by the rest of SOCOM. Basically AFSOC trains, equips and grows these guys but they're always supporting other branches which means the level of advanced training, experience and culture is all over the place depending on how the individual augmentees were accepted, developed and appreciated by their attached units.

some information here;

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/y...man-structure/

[Loose Cannon]

I am interested to see how the Air Force fully integrates the 3 Special Forces units into a cohesive unit. Like it says they can be deployed as a unit, but is that really ever the case?

I have may Airborne Squadron broken up basically two teams. A Recon "Pathfinders" team, and a Combat Control team. My "Pathfinders" team might be my ultimate team. I envision it as basically as Two ODA teams crossed with an SAS Team.

However the the other team I really don't know what to make of it other than everyone is Airborne Qualified. It performs the PJ role as well, but essentially I see the team deployed to take over an air force base in a foreign country, set up shop, and generally just wait for the call.

Combat Control Team:
Major Raine (O-4) (Custom Marauders figure based on Inglorious Baterds character) Although you could go without him and make Coundown the Team leader.
Countdown (O-3) (I use Rollbar)
Barrel-Roll (O-2)
Skydive (E-9)
Altitude (E-8)
Airwave (E-8)
Drop-Zone (E-8)
Starduster (E-8)
Ripcord (E-7)
SGT Six (E-7)
Airborne (E-7)
Static-line (E-7)
Jammer(E-6)
Skymate (E-6)
Airstrike (E-6) custom
Manleh (E-6)
Freefall (E-5)
SGT Stormy (E-5) custom Combat Weatherman
Cloudburst
Crazylegs
Bombstrike (Is she Air Force?)
Condor
Sokerk
Sparrowhawk

[Tanksmasher]

As Tyroc pointed, the structure has changed and is mission dependent. Three types of STT are Personnel Recovery Team, Precision Strike Team and Global Access Team. The objective of the PRT is self-evident, made up mostly of PJs and some CCT. The PST consists mostly of JTAC-certified CCT and TACP for air strike missions. The GAT is primarily made up of CCT for airfield control. I’m not sure if any current STT contains all four specialties. A Special Forces Group usually receives 4 SOWT, each with 2 weather operators. A CSAR element typically has 2-3 PJ and a combat controller. An airfield may require 4-8 combat controllers. TACPs traditionally have an ALO and 2 enlisted JTAC. However 1 JTAC-certified airmen may be attached to an SFODA, MSOT or SEAL platoon.

In Operation GOTHIC SERPENT, there was an 11-man STT but this was before the creation of the Special Tactics Officer so the team was led by an enlisted man, a SMSgt. Three other members were MSgts, one TSgt and the rest SSgts. I suspect now the team leader is usually the STO (O3) and the assistant team leader is the flight chief, most likely an E7. Within the team are element leaders, who are at least an E6 I imagine. The CFETP for combat controllers states that 5-skill level journeyman typically act as team members though they are qualified to act unsupervised. A 7-skill level craftsman acts as a supervisor and often deploys independently or as a team leader. Must be at least a SSgt to reach level 7. Each squadron has element members, element leaders, flight chiefs, chief enlisted managers and staff positions.

[CapBritain]

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Originally Posted by Loose Cannon

Major Raine (O-4) (Custom Marauders figure based on Inglorious Baterds character) Although you could go without him and make Coundown the Team leader.
Countdown (O-3) (I use Rollbar)
Barrel-Roll (O-2)
Skydive (E-9)
Altitude (E-8)
Airwave (E-8)
Drop-Zone (E-8)
Starduster (E-8)
Ripcord (E-7)
SGT Six (E-7)
Airborne (E-7)
Static-line (E-7)
Jammer(E-6)
Skymate (E-6)
Airstrike (E-6) custom
Manleh (E-6)
Freefall (E-5)
SGT Stormy (E-5) custom Combat Weatherman
Cloudburst
Crazylegs
Bombstrike (Is she Air Force?)
Condor
Sokerk
Sparrowhawk

looking at the line-up you have here, I'd say they're better suited to being either a Pathfinder unit or an Air Assault unit, with your other team being a straight-up MFF assault unit or an SAS type Air Troop.

and, yes, Bombstrike is USAF.

[Darkhawk75]

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Love this setup Darkhawk. Kilowatt might be my favorite new rename I need to incorporate. Although it seems like Blast-Off and Flash should change places. Not sure who would be a better Anti-Venom Squad leader. Blowtorch, Charbroil? Ozone? Who is the inspiration behind Toolbox?

I never really break my teams down into 4 man teams but I am inspired now to try.

Kilowatt is all Zulu.

Yea, Clean-Sweep I think should be an Officer as his MOS could be an Officers (74B Chemical Operations and Training; but wiki says that was "to be deleted Oct 2010")

Toolbox, I got from watching that The Toys that Made Us on Netflix, A couple of bios came up for unused characters and he was one of them. Had him wearing an Personnel Combat Exoskeleton. So he seemed like a good fit here. lol


The Others were:
- Periscope (Commander Perry S. Cope, US Navy) - Submarine Commander
- Cypher (Senior Airman Erika Kennedy, USAF) - Linguist/Translator / Computer Science
- Sparrow (Corporal Alecia "Alec" Scott, US Army National Guard) - Recon Pilot / Intelligence
- Metro (Corporal Christian J. Rockefeller, US Army) - Urban Operations / Psychology

[Darkhawk75]

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I like that youre using the Super Troopers here.

Was Ruby's rank ever stated anywhere?

Not that i'm aware of but I had found a bio for Bulletman in a book about Super-Heroes that had him as a Major so I bumped it up and changed it to a Navy Rank.