The squadron was redesignated the 6th Special Operations Flight and activated at Hurlburt Field on 1 April 1994, when it absorbed the personnel of Detachment 7, Special Operations Combat Operations Staff, which had been organized in August 1993 to provide an aviation related foreign internal defense capability.
 Detachment 7, had just made its first major foreign internal defense deployment the preceding month, to Ecuador.
 By October 1994, the unit had grown and was renamed the 6th Special Operations Squadron once again.
 Two years later, on 11 October 1996, the squadron became a flying outfit when it received two Bell UH-1N Hueys.
 Since that time, the squadron has operated a number of US and foreign aircraft in its advisory role.
 Since 1994 the squadron has sent advisers to help US-allied forces employ and sustain their own airpower resources and, when necessary, integrate those resources into joint and multi-national operations.
 Until the activation of the 370th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron in Iraq in 2007, it was the "sole USAF unit whose primary mission encompassed the training-advising of host nation air forces."
 This mission often merged with counterinsurgency and foreign internal defense missions in host countries.

The unit moved from Hurlburt Field to Duke Field in 2012, when the 711th Special Operations Squadron transitioned from the Lockheed MC-130E Combat Talon to the foreign internal defense role, the two units jointly assuming the new mission. "
As the only two Air Force operational squadrons performing this mission, their deployment tempo is best described as continuous averaging around one deployment a month."

In 2015, the 6th shares a building, flightline, PZL C-145 Skytruck aircraft and mission with Air Force Reserve Command's 711th Squadron at Duke Field.
Starting early 2017, the 6th was also flying the Cessna 208 Caravan in an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance role.
The squadron was redesignated the 6th Special Operations Flight and activated at Hurlburt Field on 1 April 1994, when it absorbed the personnel of Detachment 7, Special Operations Combat Operations Staff, which had been organized in August 1993 to provide an aviation related foreign internal defense capability.  Detachment 7, had just made its first major foreign internal defense deployment the preceding month, to Ecuador.  By October 1994, the unit had grown and was renamed the 6th Special Operations Squadron once again.  Two years later, on 11 October 1996, the squadron became a flying outfit when it received two Bell UH-1N Hueys.  Since that time, the squadron has operated a number of US and foreign aircraft in its advisory role.  Since 1994 the squadron has sent advisers to help US-allied forces employ and sustain their own airpower resources and, when necessary, integrate those resources into joint and multi-national operations.  Until the activation of the 370th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron in Iraq in 2007, it was the "sole USAF unit whose primary mission encompassed the training-advising of host nation air forces."  This mission often merged with counterinsurgency and foreign internal defense missions in host countries.
The unit moved from Hurlburt Field to Duke Field in 2012, when the 711th Special Operations Squadron transitioned from the Lockheed MC-130E Combat Talon to the foreign internal defense role, the two units jointly assuming the new mission. "As the only two Air Force operational squadrons performing this mission, their deployment tempo is best described as continuous averaging around one deployment a month."
In 2015, the 6th shares a building, flightline, PZL C-145 Skytruck aircraft and mission with Air Force Reserve Command's 711th Squadron at Duke Field. Starting early 2017, the 6th was also flying the Cessna 208 Caravan in an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance role.
6th Special Operations Squadron