re: A US Air Force Special OPs Team...I need some help with ranks

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U guessed wrong ... E-5 and 6 mostly

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There is very little promoting in USAF Spec Ops due to the low number of personnel. So most CCT's (Combat Controllers or PJ's/ParaRescue) are going to be lower in rank, as stated before, probably E-4 to E-6. Leader will be an E-6 or possibly an E-7, but as previously stated they usually don't work in groups as such. PJ's will be assigned to a unit, but you are more likely to be using an Army Spec Ops team (Green Beret/Special Forces) with maybe an AF CCT or possibly two (for the sake of your storyline)
Would be more accurate to have the senior Army Spec-Ops sargeant the team lead and maybe the senior USAF CCT the team co-lead/2nd in command. CCT's are more apt to have specialized training, i.e. sniper, mountain training, airborne training through Army training programs. You could use this as a way of the Spec Ops team lead having previous knowledge/time spent with the USAF CCT lead.
Always good to have prior knowledge of the people you are putting together when dropped somewhere deep in harms way.

As for names the two top guys can be equal rank and refer to each other by first name. The other guys on a team such as this, in Spec Ops/CCT. will usually have a nickname/moniker assigned to them when they went through their spec ops training. So "Taco", "Pluto", "Tank", "EJ"and "Big Chief" or whatever you decide to use makes more sense in the real world than asking "Fred" to pop smoke and cover the exfil with suppressing fire from his SAW.