24th Special Tactics Squadron

The investigations are long and rigorous, sometimes pursued decades after the action, the war and the warrior have passed.

Master Sergeant John Chapman was a U.S. Air Force combat controller of the Special Tactics Squadron 2-4, which is the Delta-level Tier 1 Special Tactics Squadron at Fort Bragg, by the way.

He became the first airman to receive the Medal of Honor since Vietnam.

He was posthumously awarded the nation's highest military direction direct decoration on August 22, 2018, by President Trump for his extraordinary heroism during the Battle of Takargar in Afghanistan on March 4th.

I, I mean, uh, Trump should be impeached if he puts, puts, uh, those guys forward.

You know, uh, there's a unit within JSOC called the 24th STS.

That's what they do.

Um, but, uh, you know, air, Air Force, Air Force controllers are needed in order to coordinate air operations with what's going on on the ground, but that means you gotta have eyes on, eyes right there.

You might have seen them in some mainstream articles.

Chad brings a unique perspective to this discussion, having served as a special operations forces operator and retired as a chief master sergeant from the US Air Force's elite 24th Special Tactics Squadron.

Throughout his military career, he worked with emerging weapons systems, unmanned aircraft technologies and defense innovation, including leading munitions research efforts at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Doolittle Institute.

Today, Chad is helping reshape how military units build, sustain and adapt critical systems in the field.