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  • Hurlburt hands Hondurans happy holidays

    In 1992, Tech. Sgt. Manny Torres and Maj. Ken Poole were in Honduras on a training mission. Just down the road from a Honduran Air Force base, they saw a sign on the side of the road inscribed with the acronym "SOS." This acronym was, coincidentally, also the name of their current squadron. Out of

  • Maintenance Group wins coveted Phoenix Award

    The 1st Special Operations Maintenance Group was named the winners of the coveted Department of Defense Phoenix Award, the highest field-level maintenance award within the DOD, Oct. 29, in Denver. Representatives from the 1 SOMXG were on hand at the award ceremony during the 2008 DOD Maintenance

  • CMSAF provides top enlisted perspective

    Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Rodney J. McKinley paid a visit to Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., Dec. 10 to meet and greet Airmen and see the progress of the 27th Special Operations Wing. "There are exciting things happening at Cannon and I wanted to see them for myself," said Chief McKinley.

  • Global leaders "walk the talk" at the AFSOC 21st NATO Conference

    Even when NATO representatives speak several different languages, they all understand, "to fight a network of the mind, you need a network of the mind," said Dr. Philip M. Taylor, professor of International Communications at the University of Leeds, U.K. Senior NATO, military and civilian leaders

  • Training center turns Airmen into Air Commandos

    Housed in a nondescript, beige building here resides a new organization that will be responsible for mission-qualification training on a myriad of Air Force Special Operations Command aircraft. The Air Force Special Operations Training Center officially stood up Oct. 6 at Hurlburt Field, Fla., to

  • Airmen perform Malian MEDCAP

    The average citizen in Mali, Africa gets Malaria twice a year. When Tech. Sgt. William Ward visited one such citizen, a young boy, in a Bamako infirmary, it sparked an idea. Sergeant Ward, a 352nd Special Operations Group medic, was in Bamako recently as part of the Joint Special Operations Air

  • Airmen win hearts and minds with soccer balls, school supplies

    It was just an after school neighborhood soccer game, but it could have been the World Cup. Upwards of 2,000 children surrounded a dusty field in Bamako, Mali recently to watch their classmates take on the 8th Special Operations Squadron in a United States vs. Africa showdown. The game was part of a