6 Easiest Special Forces Branch To Join

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1. Air Force Special Tactics

The first place of the 6 easiest special forces branch to join list is Air Force Special Tactics. The Air Force Special Tactics have three teams: Combat Controllers, Pararescuemen, and Special Operation Weathermen. Their mission is: “Coordinate, plan and conduct reconnaissance, surveillance and terminal control, provide air traffic control services for expeditionary airfields and assault zones, establish command and control communications, ensure Special Tactics teams are organized, trained and equipped to perform.” Each of the three special teams has specialized intensive training. Combat Control training lasts for 35 weeks in which candidates have to pass all sorts of courses and schools  (like US Army Airborne School, US Air Force Basic Survival School, Combat Control School etc.) after what they gain scarlet beret, Pararescue training is the one in which the soldiers are going through some of the toughest training that exists in US Military and after finishing they earn maroon beret (it includes a lot like U.S. Navy Underwater Egress Training, Paramedic Course, U.S. Army Military Free Fall Parachutist School, etc.) and Special Operations Weather training includes AFSOC’s Advanced Skills Training conducted which produces combat-ready special tactics operators through an intensive mentoring training philosophy.

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