In its first months of operation, it flew from several stations in what are now India and Bangladesh, maintaining detachments at Cox's Bazar from 15 to 21 October 1944, 2 to 8 November 1944 and 11 to 18 January 1945, and from Fenny Airfield from 1 to 24 December 1944.

The 6th flew combat missions in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II starting on 17 October 1944.

They also trained airmen from Latin America at Howard Air Force Base, Panama Canal Zone in counterinsurgency tactics.

It continued to fly combat until it was inactivated and its A-1s were transferred to the 56th Special Operations Wing, stationed in Thailand.

[1][4] The squadron returned to England Air Force Base on 8 January 1970 and equipped with Cessna A-37 Dragonfly light attack aircraft.

The 4410th was reduced to a group, and finally inactivated in July 1973, when the squadron returned to the control of the 1st Special Operations Wing, which had left England for Hurlburt Field in 1969.

Detachment 7, had just made its first major foreign internal defense deployment the preceding month, to Ecuador.

They were authorized to wear special-colored beret signifying the unique skills CAAs possess to others throughout the military.

On 6 January 2018, Lt. Gen. Brad Webb, then AFSOC commander, presented members of the 6th SOS with the brown beret.

With the transition of the 6th's air advising capabilities to meet future requirements, CAAs will no longer wear the brown beret.

[7] • Cannon AFB, New Mexico, 2022 - Present This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency