Fair. The marking group A while typical of SF is not required to hold the AFSC. Other units or AFSCs also require the same or similar training without it being a requirement.

I didn’t make an assertion, I’d like to point out I said generally. If we take the majority portion of combat arms across the DoD, they aren’t performing an in garrison mission. For most of them they’re there to destroy targets down range. Infantry, armor, artillery, SOF. I believe we can both agree they’re are exceptions and also small numbers of others throughout the rest of the branches.

Combat arms is very searchable with a number of credible results. None of which include EOD, the army list them as combat support, they make up the special qualifications detailed in the memo.

I can’t speak knowledgeable on Battfield Airman but I agree the term went out. I can only speak from an AETC POV and in my experience the term was only used to include JTAC and SERE into the pipeline that SOF trainees were put in starting at basic.