U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations
| Air Force Office of Special Investigations | |
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| Abbreviation | AFOSI or OSI |
Air Force Office of Special Investigations emblem
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Badge of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | August 1, 1948 |
| Employees | 2,738 total (311 officers, 1,253 enlisted, 785 civilians, and 389 reservists) |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Federal agency | United States |
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| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters |
Russell-Knox Building, |
| Special Agents | 2,029 |
| Unsworn members | 529 |
| Agency executive | Brigadier General Keith M. Givens [1] |
| Parent agency | Department of the Air Force |
| Units |
Several
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| Regions | 8 |
| Website | |
| www.osi.af.mil | |
Russell-Knox Building, 
The United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI or OSI) is a U.S. federal law enforcement agency that reports directly to the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. Operating worldwide, AFOSI provides independent criminal investigative, counterintelligence and protective service operations outside of the traditional military chain of command. AFOSI proactively identifies, investigates and neutralizes, serious criminal, terrorist, and espionage threats to personnel and resources of the U.S. Air Force and the Department of Defense, thereby protecting the national security of the United States.
AFOSI was founded August 1, 1948, at the suggestion of Congress to consolidate investigative activities in the Air Force. Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington created AFOSI and patterned it after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He appointed Special Agent Joseph Carroll, a senior FBI official and assistant to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, as the first AFOSI commander and charged him with providing independent, unbiased and centrally directed investigations of criminal activity in the Air Force. Carroll later became the first director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. As of 2007, the AFOSI has 2,900 employees. After pilot training, AFOSI remains the second-most requested career choice in the U.S. Air Force for officers.
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