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  • USAFSOS instructors pair with JSOU, teach SOCSOUTH seminar

    With its great diversity of politics and culture, understanding Latin America can be as complicated as hitting a 100-mile-per-hour fastball. In order to better prepare personnel assigned to Special Operations Command-South to work in countries across the region, a groundbreaking two-week class

  • Squadron marks 30 years of honoring fallen comrades

    Members of the 1st Special Operations Squadron marked their thirtieth consecutive year of honoring fallen brethren of STRAY 59 as the two loadmasters released a ceremonial wreath from the ramp a MC-130H Combat Talon II here Feb. 26.Eight of nine crew members and 15 special operators that were

  • 720th STG member presented DeProspero Lifetime Achievement Award

    A member of the 720th Special Tactics Group was presented a prestigious civilian award Feb. 8, 2011 in Washington.Wayne Norrad, a retired Air Force chief master sergeant and former Command Chief of Air Force Special Operations Command, was presented the National Defense Industrial Association

  • Combat control candidates vie for shot at scarlet beret

    When the muscle burn set in and it became a struggle to breathe, a shot at earning a scarlet beret was enough to push through.Thirteen servicemen traveled from as far as Washington and North Dakota to participate in the 371st Special Operations Combat Training Squadron's third combat controller and

  • AADD sets milestones in 2010, reaches out for 2011

    Hurlburt Field's Airmen Against Drunk Driving volunteers responded to 571 calls and potentially saved 924 lives in 2010. The program's network also expanded to 287 Air Commandos who either served as dispatchers or drivers while coordinating pickups throughout northwest Florida. AADD is a coalition

  • ISOC class helps turn Airmen into Air Commandos

    They all come from different careers fields, but have one thing in common; they work in or with special operations. More than 1,200 students fill the U.S. Air Force Special Operations School auditoriums annually to participate in the Introduction to Special Operations course. Students spend three

  • SOG Airmen provide mobile gas station

    Members of the 1st Special Operations Squadron and the 353rd Special Operations Group Forward Area Refueling Point Team refueled a U.S. Marine Corps CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter at a forward area refueling point here Jan. 20 as part of Beverly High 11-02, a local operational readiness exercise.

  • SOG security forces hone FAST capabilities

    Security Forces from the 353rd Special Operations Support Squadron tested their ability to provide fly-away security for a MC-130P Combat Shadow and medical personnel at an airfield in "hostile" territory here Jan. 19 as part of Beverly High 11-02, a local operational readiness exercise. The

  • AF automates active-duty assignment notifications

    The Air Force is automating active-duty assignment notifications for Airmen in the ranks of lieutenant colonel and below beginning Jan. 21. Airmen will receive an e-mail notification about their new assignments and have seven days to acknowledge their assignments through the Virtual Military

  • 1st SOCES receives two AF level environmental awards

    The 1st Special Operations Civil Engineer Squadron recently won the Air Force General Thomas D. White National Environmental Policy Act Award and the General Thomas D. White Sustainability Award for 2009-2010 fiscal years.The National Environmental Policy Act Team distinguished itself for the