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  • SOG Airmen support training in Cambodia

    Members of the 353rd Special Operations Group recently deployed here in January and February for combined training between U.S. and Royal Cambodian Armed Forces Special Forces soldiers and marked several significant events along the way.While supporting the five-week training between U.S. Army

  • Kadena NCOs rescue man trapped under vehicle

    Two staff sergeants assigned here helped pull a man pinned under an automobile after an off-base accident at an intersection near Gate 2 March 3.Staff Sgts. Abraham Forehand, a combat controller with the 320th Special Tactics Squadron, and Aaron Sanders, a Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape

  • AFSOC CCTs bring order during chaotic times

    It's 1:30 in the morning Jan. 13 when a groggy Tech. Sgt. Chris Grove answers the phone call that will shape the next two weeks of his life. Just hours after taking that call, Sergeant Grove and his nine person team of combat controllers from the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron were deploying to Port

  • SOG SNCOs selcted for promotion to E-8

    Air Force officials recently selected four master sergeants assigned to the 353rd Special Operations Group for promotion to senior master sergeant March 4. The selectees are: Michael Frazier, 353rd Maintenance Squadron, Shawn Gilmore, 353rd SOG, Richard King, 353rd SOG, and Erik Thompson, 1st

  • Air Commandos honor fallen comrades with memorial flight

    A Combat Talon II crew from the 1st Special Operations Squadron departed from Kadena Air Base Feb. 26 on a unique mission to commemorate their fallen brethren who were lost 29 years ago when a 1st SOS MC-130E, call sign STRAY 59, crashed during an exercise killing eight of nine crew members and 15

  • AFSOC hosts Physical Ability Stamina Test for special tactics Airmen

    The Air Force Special Operations Training Center is hosting a Physical Ability Stamina Test at 7:30 a.m. March 12 at the Special Tactics Training Squadron on Hurlburt Field, Fla., for applicants interested in joining the pararescue, combat control or special operations weather career

  • Psychologist speaks about military children, deployments

    More than 100 parents, teachers and mental health professionals gathered at the Commando Auditorium at Hurlburt Field Feb. 22-23 to attend a seminar about the effects of deployment on military youth. Dr. Michelle Sherman, a clinical psychologist and associate professor at the University of Oklahoma

  • Air Commando mentors bring power of airlift to Afghans

    From overseas contingency operations in Afghanistan and Iraq to recovery missions in places like Haiti and New Orleans, or aiding scientific research in Antarctica, airlift has a global influence. Airmen with the 538th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron are sharing the power of airlift by advising

  • Japanese officials visit 353rd SOG

    About 15 civilians and officers from Japan's National Institute for Defense Studies visited the 353rd Special Operations Group here Feb. 17 as part of a bilateral exchange program between the United States and Japan. The officers and civilians were briefed on the mission of the 353rd SOG and

  • Deployed SOF members save critically injured patients

    Deployed special operations forces supporting Operation Enduring Freedom recently evacuated three critically injured coalition members from an austere location in Afghanistan.The efforts of the aircrew from the 17th Special Operations Squadron and special operations medics eventually saved the lives