One of my old friends recently enlisted in the Air Force. But when I ask him what his job was going to be I cant remember what the technical term he used for it was but he said it was pretty much Infantry. I was unaware the Air Force had anything to do with Infantry. Is he full of crap?
2006-11-07 03:43:31 · 8 answers · asked by josh h 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
He's full of crap. There is no Infantry in the Air Force. They have Security Forces, and some of them THINK they're Infantry, but they're more like MPs (military police). Some of the very best might get to attend Ranger school, and I believe there's a more elite-type "special" SF group, but if you want to fight in a rifle company, real infantry, you have to join the Army or the Marine Corps.
PJs and combat controllers go to some of the special schools, but they're not infantry either. PJs are special medics, and they get all that training in insertion/extraction, but they're not combat troops per se. Both specialties go to a combat SURVIVAL course, but it's core combat arms. Neither are TACPs, although they often serve in frontline positions with ground combat forces, conducting terminal guidance for close air support weapons.
2006-11-07 04:28:20 · answer #1 · answered by DJ Cosmolicious 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Air Force is intriguing given that it's fairly five forces in a single. You have Air, Space, Cyberspace, Intelligence and Support for all of those features. To say that best pilots are principal is foolish given that Navy has extra planes and runs extra Air missions than the Air Force. But the Air Force runs GPS and SAT COMM and you understand that is beautiful principal for the whole army. Intelligence accrued from house resources and UAVs support the entire different forces and enable the Infantry to their jobs. But that house borne intelligence way not anything with out the 1NXXX to disseminate that proper? I'd say every of those sub branches have their possess backbones.
2016-09-01 08:42:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only thing the Air Force has close to the infantry would be Combat Controllers, or Pararescue(PJs), they work closely with Navy Seals and such.
2006-11-07 04:18:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He might be attempting to be a combat controller, or pararescue. Neither of those are really infantry, but as far as I know, they're the closest.
2006-11-07 04:48:37 · answer #4 · answered by DOOM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is completly full of it, the AF has nothing close to infantry.
2006-11-07 03:45:10 · answer #5 · answered by James B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could be if he is in Iraq. The AF have some folks who volunteered to do ground duty there. Real men, even the AF has some.
2006-11-07 03:48:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
security forces have force protection, use infantry tactics and light weapons.
2006-11-07 03:45:30 · answer #7 · answered by David B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a former ETTC (controller), I can tell you for a fact that the only difference between a "Bluesuiter" and the Army is that our stripes were upside down.
2006-11-07 04:56:17 · answer #8 · answered by tom l 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋