AFSOCMAN10-410 governs the presentation, command relationships, missions, functions, and responsibilities of AFSOC forces.
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It covers AFSOF background, force presentation functions, the RFF process, and command and control. It requires compliance and identifies requirements for waiver requests and records created by prescribed processes.
Applies to: This guidance applies to all AFSOC units, to include Air National Guard (ANG) and Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) units when mobilized.
The Commander, AFSOC (COMAFSOC), under the direction of the Secretary of the Air Force (SECAF) and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CSAF), is responsible for training, organizing, equipping, and providing operationally ready Air Force Special Operations Forces (AFSOF) to combatant commanders (COCOM).
AFSOC also provides operational support forces, Special Operations (SO) test and evaluation, and SO education.
To accomplish these missions, AFSOC has identified the following core missions: specialized air mobility; precision strike; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; special tactics; aviation foreign internal defense; command and control; agile combat support; and Information Operations/MISO.
Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) is both an Air Force major command (MAJCOM) and the air component to United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), a unified combatant command (UCC).