Originally Posted by Regie Mental
Instead the overseas based SOGs will be based at Cannon AFB, NM.
Cannon AFB & GSP are two separate entities - as much as AFSOC would like them to be merged.
I highly suspect GSP may see quite a bit of sliding right, if not cancelled outright. My opinion only.
Originally Posted by chopper2004
AFSOCOM units
Just to clarify a wee bit:
AFSOC = Air Force Special Operations Command
SOCOM = Special Operations Command
Two separate entities.
The former has no RAF equivalent organisation (save the onesie, twosie (SF) units), the latter is most akin to DSF.
As an aside, UK SF are organised very (frighteningly) similar to US SF prior to the Nunn-Cohen amendment to the Goldwater-Nicholls Defence Reorganisation Act of 1987 that created SOCOM. (To be fair, previously, US were probably organised like UK!)
As for what gets based in Europe, there have been plans for an MH-47(E) unit since at least 2000 - most likely based in Germany (Stuttgart). At one point, they were to be in place by end of '06 - don't know what happened to change that.