4 Sqn's minus 20 para jump
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2017
- Members of No. 4 Squadron Combat Control Team and colleagues from the Royal Air Force (RAF) parachuted into a dry lake bed in the Nevada Test and Training Range during Exercise Red Flag 17-01 to test that the lake bed was safe for a C-130J Hercules to land on. Thank to elevation and the weather, the airmen jumped from the Hercules into a -20C slipstream.
Can someone tell me what the selection is like for CCTs please? I'm interested but there isn't much out there on these guys for some reason.
Hey mate. Selection for combat controller is very high - and, you can only apply if you're already in the ADF. The basic training for combat controller is about 18 months and is SF standard.
@@contactpublishing so then what is the difference between JTACs and CCT?
@@ginger0208 As I understand it (and I could be wrong), JTAC are qualified to direct aircraft fire onto a target, in the shooting phase of the aircraft's mission. Combat Controllers can do that too, but are also qualified similar to air traffic controllers for all phases of aircraft movement into and out of the battle space.
@@contactpublishing so JTACs aren't as specialised and therefor won't fall under SF right? I'm looking into possible career fields in SF and just trying to figure out which direction I want to take
@@ginger0208 My understanding (and again, I could be wrong), JTAC are very specialised, as are combat controllers. And, while neither are SF in their own right, they very often work directly with SF, even as embeds at troop level. That said, I bet there are more than a few SF peeps who are JTAC qualified.
While direct entry to SF is possible, it is quite rare. Usually, you have to be in the ADF (not necessarily just Army) for a while before applying for a selection course. Also, you will join the SF and then figure out what you're going to specialise in, with their help, depending on what they need at the time. You will not get into SF if you have already chosen your own speciality and reckon you can stick to that. You will not be able to, and you shouldn't even try to choose your direction before getting in.
BTW, if you think SF are specialists, I think you have either your terminology or your thinking wrong - SF operators are way less 'specialised' than just about any other soldier in so far as they have high-level skills in a far wider range of 'specialities' than just about anybody else.
are they 4 squadron SASR or another unit
Hi Will. They are 4 Squadron RAAF - specialist Combat Control Teams. They are considered 'special forces' and do operate, embedded, with SASR and Commando units on the front line.
not airfield defence guard. yet i think the army joke at these guys a bit.
No, they are not ADGs. And I seriously doubt that any soldier who has worked these guys has seriously laughed at them - except in face-to-face banter. As far as I've heard, they are highly valued members of SF teams.
i meant banta
Are they always embedded or do they have their own cct only unit?