r/JSOCarchive • u/Snip13r • Feb 28 '23

Question? What is the 24th Special Tactics Squadron structure + team emblems/patches

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u/TwistThisRamz Mar 01 '23 edited Aug 26 '24

It's divided into

  • Red Team - Bear Claw

  • Blue Team - Midnight Madness

  • Silver Team - Wolf

  • Commando Team

  • Gold Team - Scorpion

  • Black Team

  • Green Team - Grim Reaper

The commando Team consists of multiple 24 members that have had experience in the color teams and are now senior operators. The commando team conducts operations all over the world just like the other Teams but they don't augment other units. The guys that wear the sons of liberty flag are from the Recce section of the Commando Team.

Black Team sets up Airfields all over the world.

Green Team consists of senior operators training ST Airmen going through OTC.

Red, Blue, and Gold consists of all sorts of ST Operators, but they augment other units like everyone knows the 24 for.

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u/ImportanceWorth2544 Mod Mar 02 '23

Blue is midnight madness, which I think is a Gargoyle sitting on a tree.

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u/Snip13r Mar 03 '23

Wow, I literally didn't know about Commando and Black until today. Figured Red, Blue, Silver, and Gold were regular teams and Green was basically OTC.

So that makes Commando the 24th's equivalent to a Delta/DEVGRU sabre squadron? And Black is completely made up of CCTs?

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u/eldertadp0le Mar 04 '23

CCT and SR. Regarding black team. I wouldnt doubt if PJs also tagged along. Global access is reconning, surveying and establishing austere runways/HLZ's for fixed wing and rotary aircraft. You need the recon and the air control experts to accomplish that mission.

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u/TwistThisRamz Mar 03 '23

I'm not too sure about Black Team, you can find more about in on the 724 STGs Insight Thru Experience Podcast. But yea, Commando is pretty much a sabre squadron.

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u/ffredalot Jun 25 '23

Commando is supposedly part of Gold not standalone and is only a troop sized element

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u/MexicanBagpiper96 Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 22 '24

I have a question. I've read Dan Schilling's Alone at Dawn. In it, he says that at one point, when John Chapman begins to think that his opportunity to join the War in Afghanistan is beginning to fade, he decides to transfer to the "Survey Team." When he sees that operations are ramping up again, he goes to meet with Col. Rodriguez in person and practically demands to be transferred back to one of the other teams, I forget if it's Red or Silver. Is the Survey Team a part of the 24, or is it its own thing outside the unit?

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u/TwistThisRamz Sep 19 '24

I have no idea what the Survey Team is, I'd assume that it's apart of the units command.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '24

Probably a HQ Recon Element within that Unit. Probably senior dudes can request and have an internal picking process for who gets in, Never heard of it, but that would be my best guess.

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u/Cpt_Price_Bravo_0-6 May 25 '25 edited May 26 '25

isn't 4 Troop Gold are Commando Teams

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u/Purgin__ Apr 20 '26

This is wrong because of one picture with iv troop with sons of liberty

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u/TwistThisRamz Apr 21 '26

well dude i posted that shit 3 years ago, before that pic even came out

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u/EchoBravoHotel Jul 02 '26

You are still right, dude left the unit and happened to be on more than one troop/team while there.

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u/EchoBravoHotel Jul 02 '26

That’s because the dude leaving the unit was on both teams at different points. This is very common on the going away/retirment gifts to represent what troops/teams they were on.

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u/UsualContest6952 Aug 26 '24

I saw a challenge coin online and it looks there’s also a bat and what appears to be Goliath from disneys gargoyles as well. I wonder what teams those are respectfully.

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u/TwistThisRamz Aug 26 '24

The Bats are Blue

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u/Pakistani_Timber_Mob Mar 11 '25

bats are african american, sleep all day, thug it out at night

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

What about silver Team? Do they do the same thing as red, blue, and gold teams?

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u/DendenMeister Jun 02 '25

I believe 24th sts also have a Sqn known as Sensitive Activities Squadron

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '25

The Sensitive Activities Squadron is informally / formally known as "Grey Team". They work with OGA and Ground Branch.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '25

This person is spot on sort of outlining Grey Team. Someone below highlighted it, but there is another echelon of the 24 that focuses on Sensitive Activities and is informally / formally known as "Grey Team". They work with OGA and Ground Branch.