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  • When pigs fly... with Ospreys

    What do you get when you cross an osprey with a warthog? For a zoologist, the question may seem preposterous. In Air Force terms, instead of an odd looking winged-swine hybrid, the result is immense firepower and unparalleled close air support capability for the rapid infiltration and exfiltration

  • Cannon ammo Airmen ready for gunship arrival

    The 27th Special Operations Equipment Maintenance Squadron Munitions Flight completed new training on the Combat Aircraft Parking Area here Feb. 6 to ensure they are ready when additional aircraft arrive. Twenty-six Airmen make up the flight that is responsible for supplying live and training

  • AFSOTC offers college credits and expands training

    The Air Force Special Operations Training Center here is now offering college credits to Airmen and expanding training opportunities, allowing warfighters more time to concentrate on their mission. The U.S Air Force Special Operations School here, under the umbrella of AFSOTC, offers 20 Community

  • CV-22s complete first operational deployment

    The final two CV-22s broke across the Florida horizon just in time for Thanksgiving dinner. And after a 5,300 nautical mile flight across the Atlantic ocean, they had surely worked up an appetite. The aircraft, from the 8th Special Operations Squadron, arrived home Nov. 26 on the heels of two other

  • Air Commandos visit orphanage in Philippines

    Airmen from the 353rd Special Operations Group visited an orphanage in Angeles City, Pampanga in the Philippines Jan. 19 before returning home from an overnight mission supporting U.S. Army forces deployed for Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines. Members of the 17th Special Operations Squadron,

  • Group announces annual award winners

    Col. David Mullins, the 353rd Special Operations Group commander, announced the group's 2008 annual award winners in a ceremony at the Banyan Tree Club here Jan. 16. The winners are: Company Grade Officer Capt. Kelly Kruger, 1st Special Operations Squadron Senior Noncommissioned Officer Master Sgt.

  • AFSOC captain named top air liaison officer in Air Force

    An Air Force Special Operations Command "Quiet Professional" was named the service's top air liaison officer for 2008. Top honors go to Capt. Christopher Wilson of Wheeling, W.Va. He is assigned to the 17th Air Support Operations Squadron and is the tactical air control party flight commander for