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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5589611" data-attributes="member: 59506">Yeah. It's kind of the same thing as with Marine Recon. It wasn't officially part of special forces either (though I always thought they were). Now (as Olgar's pointed out) there's actually a dedicated special operations Force Recon, but most Marine Recon are just part of other units now. PJ's freely float between Rescue Unit assignments (which are not special ops, and are where most PJ's are assigned), and Special Tactics Unit assignments (which are special ops, but doesn't have that many "assigned" PJ's). Confusing it even more is that Rescue Units have been bounced back and forth between ACC and AFSOC a number of times, though currently they are ACC and look like they'll be staying there. Also, PJ's are farmed out from Rescue Units to special ops teams with significant regularity - especially over the last ten years. A number of PJ's from our Rescue Squadron were in theater (Afghanistan) with special forces units long before Rescue Squadrons were deployed to the theater (SrA Cunningham was one such). Saying PJ's are special forces is like saying Marine Recon is special forces. Technically they are only special forces when part of a special operations unit or team. But that's not to say they don't have many of the same skills. Like I've said before, PJ's go through training very similar in difficulty and hardship to SEAL training - and in some aspects may even be harder. They can shoot like a SEAL and perform a field tracheotomy while treading water in a hurricane.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> They are certainly some serious dudes.</blockquote>

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