The U.S. Air Force will cut personnel assigned to its elite Tactical Air Control Party career field nearly in half as the service looks to continue retiring the A-10 Warthog.

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The U.S. Air Force has created a new Air Force Specialty Code that will move its special tactics, tactical air control party (TACP) and combat rescue officers into their own special warfare tier.

TACP Airmen are members of Air Force special operations and embed with ground units to direct airstrikes. 5th ASOS personnel are frequently attached to deploying units, and competition helps ...

"TACP is an operational career field. I had the best of both worlds; I got to play in the dirt and still wear the blue uniform." All of that changed unexpectedly when Saint was told in December ...

First held at Hurlburt Field, Fla., in 1983, the Lightning Challenge quickly evolved into a highly-anticipated annual event among TACP Airmen, many of whom spend their entire Air Force careers ...

The first woman to enter training to become a tactical air control party airman left shortly thereafter due to an injury, the Air Force said.

The first female TACP candidate ― an enlisted airman who was already in the Air Force ― passed the required physical test and began training last July but soon had to drop out after a leg ...