Ask An Air Commando

You asked, we delivered. We took questions from our fans on Facebook and got answers from various members in the command. But don't worry, we translated.

1. How do Air Commandos deal with harmful wildlife in foreign lands while performing ops?

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Answer: With any dangerous wildlife, awareness, avoidance and education are key.

Translation: In all honesty some Air Commandos look at snakes as possible (extremely fresh) meals.

2. Why did you choose to be an Air Commando...why not another branch of service?

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Answer: AFSOC is a small command and has relatively unknown operators.

Translation: Chuck Norris was an Airman.

3. What's the most rewarding part of being an Air Commando?

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Answer: Being able to know that we have the global reach to go anywhere in the world, prosecute villains and protect victims at a moment's notice.

Translation: Aside from protecting the country I serve, we get to go out and get bad guys.

4. What motivates you?

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Answer: I am most motivated by the feeling of satisfaction and achievement of completing a project on time and impressively. I like to let my accomplishments prove my worth. That pushes me to put in more effort and to pay more attention to the job.

Translation: 'MERICA

5. What kept you going or stopped you from quitting training?

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Answer: The men and women to my left and right, and the next generation that will carry-on after I'm done.

Translation: If you saw my hometown you would not have quit either.

6. Besides "Special Tactics Airmen" what makes AFSOC unique?

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Answer: It's our people...the way we treat each other and how we trust teammates to be innovative, creative and get the job done. It's our ability to look at a problem or an issue and say "yes, I can do that" regardless of the challenges or obstacles. AFSOC truly believes and demonstrates the first SOF Truth "Humans are more important than hardware." We try and inculcate this into every corner of our enterprise and because of this, AFSOC is able to do incredible things every day, 24/7, around the world in every theater even though we are the smallest command in the Air Force.

Translation: Guns, lots of guns.

7. What goes through your head knowing that you're part of an awesome team?

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Answer: How lucky I am to get to meet and work with the people I do. Knowing no matter if we are downrange or just downtown, we have each other's back in any situation.

Translation: Because I'm awesome. But enough about me, how do you feel about me?

8. What's your favorite kind of MRE?

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Answer: My favorite MRE and the one I would fight for all the time is the cheese tortellini. It came with peanut butter and crackers, which I would make into little cracker sandwiches and it came with a candy of some sort, which I always traded for the instant cappuccino drink.

Translation: Hey, MREs are better than snakes (sometimes).

9. Why is it that AFSOC warriors are so awesome, well rounded, professional, successful and good looking?

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The answer to that one is kept more secret than Col Sander's secret recipe. You have to join to find out.