Tactical Air Control Party troops can call in strikes via aircraft, artillery, mortars, and naval gunfire.. I n recent months ...

A tactical air control party specialist fires his weapon at targets during the TACP 2022 Lightning Challenge at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis, Texas, Nov. 4, 2022.

The U.S. Air Force will cut personnel assigned to its elite Tactical Air Control Party career field nearly in half as the service looks to continue retiring the A-10 Warthog.

A team of tactical air control party (TACP) officer candidates examine a map of the area in preparation for a land navigation exercise on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Aug. 27, 2019.

The US Air Force has begun retiring the A-10, an aircraft famed for its role in close air support. The service plans to reduce Tactical Air Control Party airmen, who call in airstrikes.

On April 4, 2003, less than three weeks after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq began, Tech. Sgt. Travis Crosby, a tactical air control party specialist (TACP) attached to the U.S.

1 / 8 Show Caption + Hide Caption – U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Anthony D ... This competition was inspired by the Tactical Air Control Party’s Lighting Challenge and adapted to suit the combat ...

First Lt. Patrick Bonner, 8th Air Support Operations Squadron tactical air control party air liaison officer, radios a Slovenian pilot April 19, 2013, at a training range in Pocek, Slovenia.

Tactical Air Control Party troops in combat. At last count, sixteen TACP troops have earned the prestigious Silver Star, which is the U.S. Armed Forces’ third-highest military decoration for ...