They achieved a 100% sortie success rate, the first Tornado squadron to achieve this milestone on an operational detachment.
In July the first "dirty bird" arrived at an operational detachment.
Like all units, this special missions unit contains operational detachments as well as support detachments.
I was reassigned to the newly formed 5th Special Forces Group and looked forward to taking my place in an operational detachment.
The 20th Fighter Bomber Wing established an operational detachment at Wheelus AB, Libya in February 1958.
Candidates must be a staff sergeant (E-6, NATO: OR-6) and above, and have served three years on an operational detachment.
Authors claiming to be former members of the unit describe an organisation with a depot in Great Britain and four operational detachments in Northern Ireland.
Today Alpha is a highly professional unit, which consists of roughly 700 operators and support personnel in five operational detachments.
The operational detachment, also referred to as the basic Mark V SOC operating system, consists of:
The squadron also supported sixteen operational detachments to England, Ascension Island, Sicily, Turkey, and Africa, at one point maintaining a detachment for 11 consecutive weeks.