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  • POTFF helps SOF Airmen, families stay resilient

    After being at war for more than 14 years, the U.S. military’s special operations forces seams show signs of fraying. U.S. Special Operations Command’s Preservation of the Force and Families program is designed to help combat this fray.For the 352nd Special Operations Wing, the POTFF staff here

  • Teak Mint participants visit orphanage in Malaysia

    Participants of the Joint Chief of Staff Teak Mint exercise visited the Rumah Kasih Hormoni Orphanage near Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia, June 6, 2015.Members of the 353rd Special Operations Group, the 36th Airlift Squadron and the Royal Malaysian Air Force collected more than $1,000 to donate clothes and

  • Air Commandos complete Teak Mint 15-1

    Members from the 353rd Special Operations Group along with members from the 36th Airlift Squadron conducted multinational and bilateral training during Joint Chief of Staff Exercise Teak Mint 15-1 in Kuala Lumpur and Kuantan, Malaysia, May 26 through June 13.“This exercise has been a great

  • “Spooky” gunship hits the mark

    The 4th Special Operations Squadron conducted live-fire training utilizing a C-130U “Spooky” gunship, June 16, 2015, at Eglin Range, Fla. Aircrew members communicated closely with ground-range operators to ensure the gunship's rounds hit simulated enemy targets.

  • Air Force special operators, Marines partner up for joint training

    The United States Air Force 320th Special Tactics Squadron along with U.S. Marine Corps 3rd Recon Battalion conducted joint training from May 18-28 here and on Marine Corps Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan.During the training, the 320th STS conducted pre-deployment operations alongside the 3rd Recon

  • Four Airmen save contractor’s life

    On April 15, four Airmen saved a contractor’s life on the loading dock of their building utilizing their annual Air Force CPR training. Their training was put to the test when Senior Airman Crystal Morgan, 1st Special Operations Maintenance Operations Squadron, made a shocking discovery – Richard

  • Comptrollers rehearse expeditionary skills

    Comptroller Airmen spent June 6 in a simulated joint-deployment environment here, to exercise an infrequently practiced expeditionary skillset.The design was based on an exercise in the 1990s dubbed 'Top Dollar' and scaled down to a one-day simulation where Airmen exercise war-time skills including

  • Be proactive: Make needed changes instead of allowing problems to take root

    Too often, there have been problems that could have been prevented from becoming bigger than they developed into. Small problems can be dealt with at the lowest level; yet sometimes leaders do not engage with a small problem and it turns into a bigger one.As leaders, we must be proactive -- not