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  • 3rd SOS changes leadership, transfers to Cannon

    Just one week after the 27th Special Operations Wing marked its first year at Cannon Air Force Base, the 3rd Special Operations Squadron commemorated its transfer from Nellis AFB, Nev., to Cannon AFB in a change-of-command ceremony Oct. 8. In front of a backdrop of parachuting Special Operations

  • Hurlburt youth plays Tee Ball for the President

    The son of a Hurlburt Field Airman was able to do something most Americans can't even fathom...he met the President of the United States while playing a Tee Ball game on the South Lawn of the White House. Eric Anderson, the 7-year-old son of Lt. Col. Leighton and Kristi Anderson, 1st Special

  • 1 SOCS named best in Air Force

    The 1st Special Operations Communication Squadron has been named best in the Air Force as the winner of the 2007 Lt. Gen. Harold W. Grant Award for Excellence in Communication. The annual award is given to the top Air Force communications and information unit for excellence in support of the Air

  • Old 'Soldiers' arrive at Melrose for final duty

    Some might view it as an inglorious end to a faithful old soldier while others might see it as a final salute to today's warriors. The first shipment of a planned 80 to 100 decommissioned M60 tanks arrived at the Clovis rail yards Sept. 29. Offloading procedures soon began as these old 'soldiers'

  • 17th ASOS transitions from ACC to AFSOC

    The 17th Air Support Operations Squadron transitioned from Air Combat Command to the 720th Special Tactics Group, Air Force Special Operations Command, in a ceremony at the Hurlburt Field Air Park Oct. 1. The 17th ASOS has 61 special operations forces Tactical Air Control Party Airmen and support

  • Special Operations Weathermen get new Air Force Specialty Code

    Air Force special operations weathermen now have a new specialty code they can call their own. Recruiters can enlist trainees directly into the 1W0X2 special operations weathermen career field since the new Air Force specialty code is now in the enlisted classification directory. Before this new

  • Cannon Airmen train for SOF resupply

    What seems like routine training for 27th Special Operations Wing C-130W aircrews, loadmasters and logistics Airmen here in reality prepares them to execute missions downrange. "Special operations forces that are deployed rely on this type of air drop very much," said Staff Sgt. Jerimy Pickering, an

  • MH-53s fly final combat missions

    Aircrews flew the remaining six MH-53 Pave Low helicopters on their last combat missions in support of special operations forces Sept. 27 in Southwest Asia. The last mission, a SOF logistical resupply and passenger movement throughout central and southern Iraq, marks their last combat mission before