What does AFOSI do?, page 1
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reply posted on 12-2-2007 @ 08:22 AM by Ouruboros
From AF official site

OSI provides professional investigative service to commanders of all Air Force activities. Its primary responsibilities are criminal investigations and counterintelligence services.

The command focuses on four priorities:

-Detect and provide early warning of worldwide threats to the Air Force;
-Identify and resolve crime impacting Air Force readiness or good order and discipline
-Combat threats to Air Force information systems and technologies; and
-Defeat and deter fraud in the acquisition of Air Force prioritized weapons systems.


In addition to the command's headquarters AFOSI has eight field investigations regions. Seven of the Regions are aligned with Air Force major commands: Region 1 with Air Force Materiel Command, Region 2 with Air Combat Command, Region 3 with Air Mobility Command, Region 4 with Air Education and Training Command, Region 5 with U.S. Air Forces in Europe, Region 6 with Pacific Air Forces, and Region 8 with Air Force Space Command.

The single region not aligned with a major command is Region 7, the mission of which is to provide counterintelligence and security-program management for special-access programs under the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force.


The Region 7 seems interesting.


reply posted on 29-8-2008 @ 02:41 PM by Anonymous ATS
AFOSI as an agency is like the FBI of the Air Force because their agents conduct major criminal, fraud and corruption investigations as well as conduct counterintelligence, counterterrorism and counterespionage investigations & operations. OSI agents serve all over the world and those agents deploy to places like Iraq and Afghanistan where they have been credited with the capturing 1000's of terrorism/insurgents and uncovering huge enemy weapons caches, preventing assassinations and attacks on US Forces, Host Nation officials, forces and its citizens as well as other U.S. allies. 90% percent of what the OSI agents do state side is regular investigative work which is somewhat boring work part of the time with dashes of excitment mixed in but when they deploy they are outside the wire day and night doing some very dangerous and important operational activities. That is why seven OSI agents have been killed in Iraq and another 20+ agents have been wounded by suicide bombers, IED, bombings and rocket attacks.

OSI is also known as the Secret Service of the Air Force and provides security for senior Air Force leaders, Foreign Dignities and supplement the Secret Service when asked to do so. OSI serves as the U.S. Marshall Service of the Air Force because they are charged with tracking down Air Force fugitives. They also are the cyber cops of the USAF and because OSI is a small investigative agency that only handles the more serious criminal investigations they have to be good at processing crime scenes “CSI Types” and they are also very good suspect interrogators. They are the original "Men in Black" who have been providing security for this country’s Special Access Programs (SR-71, U-2, B-2, F-117) since the late 40's. Many Air Force personnel when ask about OSI only know a little of what OSI agents really do because they mainly come in contact with the OSI’s basic criminal investigations mission but the men and women of OSI are the quiet hero's of the Air Force. Its been said of OSI agents by senior Air Forces leaders that pound for pound they are the most lethal weapons in Iraq not Air Force aircraft. The reason is because OSI agents have the ability to gain access to terrorist/insurgent activities and expose their operating locations so that they can be surgical targeted and neutralized without much collateral damage. AFOSI is a unique agency because it is a Military/Federal Law Enforcement Investigative agency with a nice mix of Active Duty and Civilian Special Agents. That is what OSI agents do. I should know I am an OSI agent and if you Google AFOSI and go through all the web site articles you will be able to confirm all that I have outlined above.
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