[200] 23 AF Patch Water Bottle

Introducing project “Military Insignia”, featuring top quality military heraldry designs. Here you will find designer apparel, accessories, custom postage and decorated with insignia of the Twenty-Third Air Force (23 AF). Twenty-Third Air Force (23 AF) is a Numbered Air Force assigned to Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC). It is stationed at Hurlburt Field, Florida. It was reactivated on 1 January 2008. The mission of 23 AF is to provide highly trained special operations command and control (C2), intelligence, and reachback support forces to deployed air commanders for execution of assigned missions. Mission tasks include: • Monitor, implement, guide, and report global air operations activity to senior AFSOC/23AF leadership. • Provide trained special operations C2, intelligence, and reachback support elements to theater special operations commanders. • Execute C2 for air, space and cyberspace operations supporting USSOCOM. Once fully operational, 23 AF will provide a special operations liaison element to regional air operations centers and a forward command and control team to be the air component to a joint special operations task force commander. 23 AF is comprised of the following units: • 623rd Air and Space Operations Center (AOC) • 23rd Weather Squadron • 11th Intelligence Squadron • 18th Flight Test Squadron In December 1982, the Air Force transferred responsibility for Air Force special operations from Tactical Air Command (TAC) to Military Airlift Command (MAC). Consequently, in March 1983, MAC activated Twenty-Third Air Force (23 AF) at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. This new numbered air force's responsibilities included worldwide missions of special operations, combat rescue, weather reconnaissance and aerial sampling, security support for intercontinental ballistic missile sites, training of USAF helicopter and HC-130 crewmen, pararescue training, and medical evacuation.