AFSOC Combat Control Team

An Airman with a 23rd Special Tactics Squadron Combat Control Team (CCT) uses his radio to clear a C-130 aircraft for take off from a dirt strip during a training exercise.

Combat Control Teams are an element of Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) Special Tactics Teams. CCTs survey and mark out ad hoc airstrips and drop zones, marshall incoming and outgoing air traffic and call in air strikes and close air support.