724th Special Tactics Group

The group's special tactics squadron is made up of Special Tactics Officers, Combat Controllers, Combat Rescue Officers, Pararescuemen, Special Reconnaissance, United States Air Force Tactical Air Control Party officers and enlisted personnel, and a number of combat support airmen which comprise 58 Air Force specialties. Special tactics squadrons are organized, trained and equipped specifically for various special operations missions facilitating air operations on the battlefield. They conduct combat search and rescue missions, collect intelligence, as well as call in close air support or airstrikes against enemy combatants and are often partnered with other U.S. special operations forces overseas. ==Lineage==

• Established as the 724th Training Group on 22 January 1943 and activated on 28 February 1943. Disbanded on 30 April 1944. • Reestablished, and redesignated as 724th Special Tactics Group on 1 March 2011 • Activated on 29 April 2011 Subordinate units • 17th Special Tactics Squadron, Fort Moore, Georgia, 1 October 2020 - Present • 24th Special Tactics Squadron, Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina, 29 April 2011 - Present • 724th Operations Support Squadron, Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina, 29 April 2011 - Present • 724th Intelligence Squadron, Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina, 29 April 2011 - Present • 724th Special Tactics Support Squadron, Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina, 29 April 2011 - Present Assignments • Army Air Forces Technical Training Command, 28 Feb 1943 - 25 September 1943 • 76th Training Wing, 25 September 1943 - 30 April 1944 • Air Force Special Operations Command, 29 April 2011 - present Stations • Army Air Force Training Center #7, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 28 February 1943 - 16 June 1943 • Seymour Johnson Field, North Carolina, 16 June 1943 - 30 April 1944 • Pope Air Force Base (later Pope Army Airfield), North Carolina 29 April 2011 - present ==Commanders==

• April 2011 – June 2012, Col. Matthew 'Wolfe' Davidson • June 2012 July 2014, Col. Michael Martin ==References==