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  • Harvard-trained negotiator instructs USAFSOS students

    Today’s operational environment requires both communication and combat skills. Air Commandos at every level need this training, particularly in negotiation.That’s where Hank Finn comes in. As the Air Force Negotiations Center deputy director at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, he travels to Hurlburt

  • Intel squadron achieves full operational capability

    After only 18 months – 6 months ahead of schedule – the 28th Intelligence Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Florida, achieved full operational capability.The milestone was achieved after Staff Sgt. Kyle Cook performed a check ride as an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operator in a special

  • AFSOC orients business executives

    Seventeen business executives received a hands-on orientation of Air Force Special Operations Command's mission April 7, 2016. The group, led by former 16th Special Operations Wing commander and Air Force Chief of Staff retired Gen. Norton Schwartz, comes from a variety of organizations with

  • Airmen’s Innovation Leads to MC-130J’s Equipped with Printed Parts

    Powered by Airmen, Fueled by Innovation…a phrase coined by Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, Air Force chief of staff, recognizes the role of each individual Airmen in producing air power and the evolution needed to achieve our core missions. Staff Sgt. Matthew Farmer, 352nd Special Operations Aircraft

  • 919th SOW welcomes new special operations squadron

    The 859th Special Operations Squadron, formerly Detachment 1 of the 919th Special Operations Group, was activated in a ceremony here April 1.The ceremony was significant in that it marked a new chapter in the Non-Standard Aviation mission that members of the special operations community here have

  • Air Commandos infiltrate via free fall

    Members of the 26th Special Tactics Squadron conducted routine jump training March 25 just over the Cannon flightline, training to infiltrate hostile or remote areas where it is not possible for aircraft to land.While jumpers loaded onto an MC-130J Commando II, a ground crew worked quickly to

  • MAVNIs: Rare breed in AFSOC, currently recruiting

    Air Commandos without an Air Force Specialty Code? Yes, they exist, and the United States Air Force Special Operations School (USAFSOS) is looking for more.Airmen 1st Class Woo Jin Eum, Naomi Muhura and Dexter Sandi came here through the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI)