USAF 22nd Special Tactics Squadron Patch
The 22d Special Tactics Squadron is a Special Tactics unit of the United States Air Force Special Operations Command, based at Joint Base Lewis–McChord.
Constituted and activated in 1984 as the 1722d Combat Control Squadron at McChord Air Force Base (later Joint Base Lewis–McChord), it participated in Operation Just Cause and the Gulf War. The squadron was redesignated the 62d Combat Control Squadron in 1992 and the 22d Special Tactics Squadron in 1996, when it became part of the 720th Special Tactics Group in 1996. The 22d STS has fought in the ongoing War in Afghanistan and the Iraq War.
On 17 December 2014, Pararescueman Master Sergeant Ivan Ruiz was awarded the Air Force Cross for saving the lives of two wounded Army Special Forces teammates on 10 December 2013 while deployed to Kandahar Province in Afghanistan with the 22nd STS.
Master Sgt. Ivan Ruiz, a pararescueman from the 56th Rescue Squadron, Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, displays his Air Force Cross citation with Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James at the Freedom Hangar on Hurlburt Field, Fla., Dec 17, 2014. Ruiz earned the Air Force Cross while deployed with the 22nd Expeditionary Special Tactics Squadron, and assigned to the 23rd STS at Hurlburt Field, Fla. The last six Air Force Crosses have all been awarded to AFSOC Special Tactics Airmen.
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