AFSOC makes a push for Search and Rescue. Congress pushes back.

Conventional Wisdom has it that SOCOM is the darling of the DoD.  It appears that conventional wisdom is wrong.  via Defense News.

A group of six US senators and three House members are expressing concerns to senior Pentagon leadership of an internal Air Force proposal to change the way it performs the combat search-and-rescue mission, calling the plan on the table unsuitable from a budgetary and operational standpoint.
While the move has not been finalized within the Air Force, the lawmakers criticized Air Force Special Operations Command’s proposal to absorb the CSAR mission from Air Combat Command and use a mix of Bell-Boeing CV-22 Ospreys and Sikorsky HH-60 helicopters. The mission is currently conducted by ACC using only HH-60 Pave Hawks.
AFSOC officials say the move, first reported by Defense News, could save the Air Force billions of dollars in the long term, a claim dismissed by the senators who said the plan “does not appear economically sound.”
Instead the Senators, in a June 26 letter to Gen. Mark Welsh, the Air Force chief of staff, call on the service to continue with Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) program, an effort to replace the CSAR current fleet of HH-60G Pave Hawks.

I'm looking forward to watching the fight between the regular forces and SOCOM.  SOCOM has morphed into something more than simple elite forces designed for special missions.  They've become another branch of the military and either they're reigned in and downsized so that they're special again, or you sit back and give them a seat on the Joint Chiefs.