24th Special Tactics Squadron (Task Force White).
documentedmilitary_installationJSOC & Special-Access Units
USAF tier-one special mission unit under JSOC (combat control, pararescue, special reconnaissance); allegedly 'secures areas' for UAP retrievals.
The 24th STS at Pope Field is the Air Force's tier-one component to JSOC (Task Force White), attaching Combat Controllers, Pararescuemen and Special Reconnaissance operators to Delta and DEVGRU — calling airstrikes, providing battlefield medicine, seizing austere airfields (Mogadishu 1993; Iraq combat jumps 2003). DOCUMENTED unit. The Nov-2023 Daily Mail/Coulthart claim that it 'secures areas' for non-human-craft retrievals — Coulthart's 'special forces drawn primarily from the US Air Force' — is unverified.