AIR FORCE SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND Challenge Coin. This is a great looking AIR FORCE SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND Challenge Coin. Coin reveals Air Force Special Operations Command emblem on the front with it's motto "Any Time, Any Place" across the top and the U.S. Air Force emblem on the reverse. Coin is about 1 9/16" in diameter. All details are raised lettering and gold plated. Coin is contained in an acrylic air tight holder. United States Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) is the special operations component of the United States Air Force and the U.S. Air Force component command to the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), a unified combatant command located at MacDill Air Force base, Florida. AFSOC provides Air Force Special Operations Forces (SOF) for worldwide deployment and assignment to regional unified combatant commands. AFSOC was initially established on 10 February 1983 as Twenty-Third Air Force (23 AF), a subordinate numbered air force of the Military Airlift Command (MAC), with 23 AF headquarters established at Hurlburt Field, Florida. On 22 May 1990, 23 AF was redesignated as AFSOC and became a separate major command (MAJCOM) responsible for all USAF special operations forces (SOF), aircraft and personnel in the Regular Air Force, and the operational "gaining command" for all USAF SOF, aircraft and personnel in the Air Force Reserve (AFRES)...AFRES subsequently being redesignated the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) in 1997...and the Air National Guard (ANG).